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Joinfortmill

(20,901 posts)
Wed Feb 25, 2026, 08:54 AM Feb 25

'Trump Threw Secret Situation Room Tantrum: Wolff Inside Trump's Head'



'Michael Wolff joins Joanna Coles with a new window into the volatility inside the West Wing, describing what he says was a secret Situation Room tantrum by Donald Trump, a moment when military briefers could not give him the absolute guarantees he demanded, and the meeting spiraled. Wolff connects that flash of anger to the broader pattern he’s reported for years: a president who hates paper trails, avoids email, and warns aides never to “leave a record,” an instinct that now looms large as the Epstein Files fallout engulfs figures like Prince Andrew and Peter Mandelson. Why, Wolff asks, do so many powerful men have receipts—while Trump seems not to? From the chaos-as-cover strategy to the Iran briefings where strength is performative, and doubt is intolerable, this is a portrait of a leader who equates uncertainty with humiliation and reacts accordingly.'

My words: If you haven't been watching the Daily Beast series on Donald Trump, I highly recommend. Wolff has a source in the White House.
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'Trump Threw Secret Situation Room Tantrum: Wolff Inside Trump's Head' (Original Post) Joinfortmill Feb 25 OP
The perfect qualities for stochastic terrorism. Baitball Blogger Feb 25 #1
No paper trail.. Escape Feb 25 #2

Baitball Blogger

(52,131 posts)
1. The perfect qualities for stochastic terrorism.
Wed Feb 25, 2026, 10:53 AM
Feb 25

He doesn't leave a paper trail, but expects his supporters to act on his words.

This isn't a good behavioral pattern, but he's lived like this his entire life.

Escape

(438 posts)
2. No paper trail..
Wed Feb 25, 2026, 11:44 AM
Feb 25

..so that when HE orders you to do something ILLEGAL, he can simply blame you for it.

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