This Is How Idiot Trump Is Being Played by China

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How is China allegedly using language to manipulate President Trump on Taiwan?

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Michael Wolff 0:27
Essentially issuing a kind of threat to Trump. Trump who has no real position, no real ideology, no real background. He doesn't care. Let's just flatter each other. They must understand, because it's it's it's obvious, that you can move Trump as a matter of language. You can get him to make a mistake. Very easily. With Donald Trump, of course, because he can barely, you know, has a vocabulary of of three hundred words, she is trying to suggest to Donald Trump a new language which would then be beneficial to the Chinese.
Joanna Coles 1:14
Michael.
Michael Wolff 1:16
Show you enough.
Joanna Coles 1:18
Here we are again. Episode a hundred and seventy of Inside Trump's Head, where we go to try and explain what has turned out to be A government of one, correct?
Michael Wolff 1:33
Correct.
Joanna Coles 1:35
And you are Michael Wolfe. You've written four books on Donald Trump, but essentially you've spent the last ten years inside his head. And I think it's fair to say he's inside yours.
Michael Wolff 1:50
You know, what happens when he leaves?
Joanna Coles 1:53
Well don't let's worry about it's okay
Michael Wolff 1:55
because yes, that is not gonna happen anytime soon.
Joanna Coles 1:59
It's not gonna happen. And as you've said, what will happen after he leaves the White House, assuming he does, and Steve Bannon was out yesterday saying he's definitely going for a third term.
Michael Wolff 2:10
Steve Steve Bannon is and and I let's just say Steve Bannon is one of the uh the great Well, he's one of the great gas bags of all time. Although I like Steve and Steve is always um always smart. But what he is saying there is um uh is Trump will go for a third term in in a metaphorical sense.
Joanna Coles 2:36
Okay, so he's going to set up his alternate administration at Mar-a-Lago.
Michael Wolff 2:42
Yes, he will leave the White Ho we he will leave the White House, leave it with billions of dollars that he has extorted from uh corporate America, set up a uh a counter White House in uh Mar-a-Lago, which he will love, because this is great for him, because he doesn't actually then have to do the work of being the president of the United States, and he just gets to to uh draw attention from whoever becomes the president of the United States, therefore becoming clearly a rival or often it might seem a replacement president.
Joanna Coles 3:22
Okay, good. Well, we can get into more of that this morning. We've got a lot to get to. I'm Joanna Coles of The Daily Beast. And Michael and I will be appearing live at the Terogram Ballroom in downtown LA on October the twentieth. So please come and join us if you're in the vicinity. And uh you can go to beast dot pub slash IT. H live. That's beast.pub slash ITH live to buy your tickets or go to Ticketmaster. But we would love to see you come and meet us. And uh I think there's a meet and greet available and we're looking forward to getting into it. And Michael will promise you that he is even wilder uh when he's not within the confines of a podcast.
Michael Wolff 4:09
I would dec say more precise.
Joanna Coles 4:11
You would say you you are you are more precise. You are more precise. Okay, well, we have a lot to be precise about today. We've got she's visit, which we need to unpack. We've got Melania's launching of a female network and my efforts to join, which have come to naught. Uh, we've got a fascinating story about the privatization of American diplomacy in the form of none other. Other than our favourite character. I think it's fair to say, she's certainly in our top ten, Michael. Kimberly Gilfoy, the former Fox news anchor who was once incredibly married to Gavin Newsom. I mean, what a story. And now she's found a very close Greek male friend who is helping her as she develops business ties in Greece. And uh in that part of Europe where we have well, oddly we have almost no ambassadors other than Kimberly Guilfoyle who

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