Ex-adviser known as 'Trump whisperer' admits telling biographer 'he's an idiot!'

Even some of President Donald Trump's own close advisers, from the beginning, have had no confidence in his intelligence or sense, biographer Michael Wolff told the Daily Beast's "Inside Trump's Head" podcast Wednesday.

Specifically, Wolff said, Trump's medically unsupported announcement that the administration blames Tylenol use during pregnancy for autism — something even his own Medicaid administrator, Dr. Mehmet Oz, doesn't seem to believe — reminded Wolff of a conversation he had right after the 2016 election with Trump's then-adviser, Sam Nunberg.

Wolff said he believed at the time Trump might be an “interesting president” and could end up doing “the unexpected in a good way.” But when he suggested this to Nunberg, known as the "Trump whisperer," Nunberg replied, "You don’t get it, do you? He's an idiot!"

"And at that moment, it all came clear to me because Trump is, in very classic terms, an idiot," Wolff continued.

Asked for comment by The Beast, Nunberg admitted the comment but said he no longer feels this way about Trump, because, “That was a long time ago and President Trump has certainly proved me wrong by getting [re-elected] in 2024.”

Meanwhile, Trump's infamous foul-mouthed communications director Steven Cheung gave his stock response to the Beast, “Michael Wolff is a lying sack of s--- and has been proven to be a fraud. He routinely fabricates stories originating from his sick and warped imagination, only possible because he has a severe and debilitating case of Trump Derangement Syndrome that has rotted his peanut-sized brain.”

Nunberg, who was fired by the Trump campaign over unearthed racist comments on Facebook, became widely known after a bizarre rant on TV in 2018 in which he refused to cooperate with the Russia special counsel investigation, before shortly backing down and doing so. He was widely speculated by observers to be drunk during that interview, although he adamantly denies this.