Inside Trump's Head

By The Daily Beast, Michael Wolff and Joanna ColesSociety & Culture News

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February 20, 2025 Jim Acosta Challenges Trump to a Sit-Down
Jim Acosta (dubbed “major sleazebag” by Trump) is letting loose since leaving CNN, warning, “What we’re seeing is perhaps even more disturbing than the last Trump presidency.” He slams Trump’s pardoning of January 6 rioters as “an act of aggression against democracy” and mocks his alliance with Musk: “Trump hands him the presidency—Musk vacuums up private data, lays off thousands.” Samantha Bee and Joanna Coles debate polyester cheetahs, doomsday prepping (“Tuna is a superpower”), and Bezos’ $40 million payout for Melania’s doc. Ben Sherwood shares plane crash survival tips: “Sit within five rows of an exit, wear lace-up shoes—every second counts.”
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1 hr 9 min
February 13, 2025 Sam Bee Hits Back at Lorne; Jan Teases Office Return
Melora Hardin (The Office’s Jan Levinson) called surviving the LA fires “surreal,” recalling how her home was spared while friends lost everything. “This is the time you want to meet a neighbor who has a gun,” she said. Meanwhile, The Daily Beast’s David Gardner covered Tulsi Gabbard’s confirmation as National Intelligence Director and Trump’s takeover of the Kennedy Center. “Are we replacing ballet with military marching bands?” he joked. Trump wins The Super Bowl. Hardin reacted to John Krasinski’s Sexiest Man Alive title—“Sure!“—and teased, “Maybe I’d pop in,” for The Office reboot.

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1 hr 4 min
February 06, 2025 Amy Klobuchar, Blake Lively and Aroused Democrats
Joanna Coles and Samantha Bee kick off The Daily Beast Podcast in a state of Chuck Schumer-level “arousal”—over Trump turning Gaza into a “beachfront resort” and Elon Musk’s “Lost Boys” running the government like “a DJ at Ultra Music Festival.” Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar slams Trump’s agenda as a “constitutional horror show” and jokes she’s organizing senators “like a trip to The Container Store.” People President Leah Wyar unpacks the $400M Justin Baldoni-Blake Lively legal drama, while Bee likens It Ends With Us to “being suffocated by his face.” And Coles receives the ultimate gift—her very own Lauren Sánchez poster.
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1 hr 14 min
January 30, 2025 RFK Jr., Elon Musk and Reid Hoffman
Billionaire LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman is Beast of the Week and delivers a very informed verdict on Elon Musk, a fellow member of the PayPal mafia from the late 1990s, calling him "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." He says the strange case of Elon is that the DOGE, Tesla, NeuraLink, SpaceX and Starlink supreme is a visionary turned chaos agent. Hoffman also reveals secrets of the new city he and other tech titans are building in Solano County, California and says whether he will live there himself. Joanna Coles and Samantha Bee have the latest on the Trump drama, from finding out how to pronounce Doral courtesy of the Daily Beast's Juliegrace Brufke, to what's going on with RFK Jr.'s tetchy confirmation hearing. And they offer a surprise endorsement of Lauren Sánchez and her much-admired décolletage. This episode is real and it's spectacular.
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1 hr 21 min
January 23, 2025 Pod Save’s Jon Lovett: This Is Trump’s Biggest Con
Pod Save America’s Jon Lovett slammed the Democratic Party’s leadership void, telling Joanna Coles and Samantha Bee, “We haven’t made another figure with Barack Obama’s popularity. We are paying dearly for the fact that Joe Biden basically left the bully pulpit empty.” Praising Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as leaders who understand “this is about attention,” he criticized the party’s lack of vision, asking, “Once everybody can have healthcare, what’s the next thing?” In contrast, Trump, he said, “declares something that’s not happening must be stopped” and then “claims victory.” And Joanna offers her verdict on giggling Hillary Clinton and reports from the Trump show in Washington D.C.

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1 hr 7 min
January 16, 2025 Don Lemon: Michelle Obama is Right to Avoid Trump
Don Lemon turns his fire on his old outlet CNN as he tells Joanna Coles and Samantha Bee, “They find ways to get rid of us for little things, for being a big mouth. Independent media is freedom. Viewers prefer my living room to a fancy studio.” The Live at Five YouTuber praises Michelle Obama for boycotting Trump’s inauguration, saying “Why normalize this behavior?” Joanna and Sam also dive into Trump’s cabinet picks with the Daily Beast’s Senior Political Correspondent Juliegrace Brufke, who watched Pete Hegseth’s heated Senate hearing and has the inside scoop on what else to expect. Daily Beast Executive Editor Hugh Dougherty has details of a bombshell investigation into Tulsi Gabbard’s spiritual guide with exclusive recordings of his homophobic remarks. And Sam and Joanna have inaugural fashion predictions for the Trump era as well as a heartfelt verdict on the LA wildfires: “trauma upon trauma.”

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1 hr 3 min
January 09, 2025 Designer Isaac Mizrahi’s Trump Fashion Predictions
Isaac Mizrahi, the former Project Runway host, explains how we are all going to dress in the Trump era–“There’s going to be no truth—just facework and hairpieces”–and delivers a cutting verdict on Melania Trump’s style. Joanna Coles and Samantha Bee have radically different takes conjoined-president Elon Musk: is he the “genius” America needs or “a rich madman on a micro-dosing bender?” Bee has thoughts about Pope Francis accusing nuns of having “vinegar faces,” saying, “Imagine telling them to smile more while they’re rinsing out his dirty socks.” And don’t miss Joanna’s version of Jessica Gunning’s Golden Globes speech.

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1 hr
January 02, 2025 Tiffany Haddish’s “Black Erewhon” & Comment Roulette
To kick off the new year, Samantha Bee and Joanna Coles interview Tiffany Haddish about her grocery store venture, her soul food New Years’ party, pre-sex bathing rituals, and more seriously, the dignity that suitcases give children in foster care. Coles and Bee also play a precarious trivia game, based on guests they’ve had on the podcast. There’s a catch—if they get a question right, they get to read a nice comment from listeners, and if they get the question wrong, they have to read a mean one. Spoiler: Sam Bee delivers a highly-theatrical recitation of all the not-so-nice ones. Tune in to see if your comment made it on air!
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43 min
December 26, 2024 George Clooney, TikTok Diets, and Trump’s Presence
For a special holiday episode—Joanna Coles and Samantha Bee are doing a gift swap, but instead of gifts, they’re swapping podcasts. On Samantha Bee’s podcast Choice Words, they talk about leaving the never-ending cycle of daily news for a slightly more dependable pace of monthly magazines, and then returning to news after a two-decade hiatus. They discuss seeing George Clooney in the flesh, the beauty of shopping on resale websites, getting nutritional advice on TikTok, and how neither of them has ever met Donald Trump.
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53 min
December 19, 2024 RFK Jr.’s Gross Jeans and Stephanie Ruhle on Luigi
The Daily Beast Podcast’s Joanna Coles and Samantha Bee dive into Kimberly Guilfoyle’s odyssey to Greece, Prince Andrew’s Chinese spy scandal and deliver a stomach-churning verdict on RFK Jr.‘s workout jeans. MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle warns against turning Luigi Mangione into a “folk hero,” spells out why the “business of rage” is warping modern life and has a question for victorious Republicans: “You’ve got the ball. What are you going to do?” And actor Dan Bucatinsky dishes on sharing a screen with Lindsay Lohan in the new Netflix Christmas hit Our Little Secret. He also delivers some life advice on embracing failure with his viral Instagram #FailureFridays and why he’s all in on Shonda Rhimes’ philosophy of “yes.”
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1 hr 10 min

About Inside Trump's Head

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Character is destiny and no character has defined or deformed the 21st century more than Donald Trump. In this new podcast series, the definitive Trump biographer Michael Wolff joins forces with the Daily Beast’s provocateur-in-chief Joanna Coles to crack open the psyche of the man the world can’t stop watching. Coles and Wolff balance candor with curiosity as they dissect Trump’s thoughts and actions and try to answer the ultimate question: what drives the most powerful man alive? This is the analysis no one else has the access, authority, or ambition to deliver. Ignore it at your peril.