Michael Wolff
speaker
409 appearances
18 recordings
3 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 25 May
Michael Wolff’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I'm a writer. I'm interested in character. I'm interested in getting the guy on the page. So to be able to see him through this campaign, really day by day, day after day, to be talking on a constant basis to the people around him, I mean, I think offers just this
this vivid window into A, how this happened, how he comes back from total disgrace after January 6th to winning the presidency again, and also the, just the peculiarness of this guy. You know, it's a kind of story in which he veers between this kind of mania and this depressive rage. So this is Donald Trump raw.
Yeah, I mean, I think it's because, again, I'm not a political reporter. You know, most other reporters, people covering Donald Trump, are seeing him in a political context. That's not really the way I see him or the way I want to see him. I want to see the guy as real as possible, as personally as possible. You know, when I wrote my biography of Rupert Murdoch, And he called me up.
He was enraged by it. And he called me up yelling. And I said, Rupert, just please tell me what's wrong with this. And he kind of sputtered. And he says, it's just so personal. And I said, well, Rupert, it is a biography. And I think that's part of what happens with Trump. It's very difficult for these guys to see themselves in a...
You know, through someone else's eyes and seeing them with some degree of the emperor with no clothes.
Robert R. Completely consistent. I mean, Donald Trump I don't think has changed the way he operates or what he wants or how he sees things in decades. And these first weeks of the new administration, which are actually rather like the first weeks of the first administration, all goes back to what does he want. And he wants headlines. Headlines, headlines, headlines. He doesn't care about policy.
He doesn't care about a legislative agenda. He cares about dominating the news cycle every day. So you can read the New York Times today, and literally every story is a Trump-related story. That's what he wants. And there's some method to this madness, which is to say that if he gets airtime or headlines, nobody else does. Therefore, he is the only thing that matters.
He's the only person on the stage. And that's how he has run his political life. That's how he ran his real estate life. That's how he ran his entertainment business life. And it doesn't matter if he contradicts the headlines the next day, tariffs on, tariffs off, because it just gives him another headline.
You know, after every book, I say I certainly hope not, and I swear off any possibility. And that's where I am today in this moment. So we will see.
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