A biographer recounted how witnessing President Donald Trump's furious meltdowns up close left him "afraid" and speechless.
During an episode of Inside Trump's Head, biographer Michael Wolff detailed what Trump looks like when he's angry and on one of his reported tirades. He was speaking about Trump's anger over losing the 2020 election when co-host Joanna Coles prompted Wolff to recount what he saw.
Wolff explained that he had sat across the table from Trump when he got upset about losing the 2020 election, saying, "I've actually sat with him, I mean, very clearly sat across the table from him and heard him go on at length about this."
Coles pointed out that Wolff, in the past, has written that Trump has "an obsessive recitation of numbers" about his supposedly stolen election and has "his hurt on display" during a kind of "delirium." However, Wolff then described a much more physical meltdown that begins when Trump goes on about the 2020 election loss.
"I mean, he looks strange," Wolff said. "His eyes, his eyes go, you know, kind of bulge, and you're afraid."
Wolff said that Trump's anger makes people around him want to stay still or silent, and "you kind of hold your breath."
He then recalled thinking, "This is craziness. I mean, I can't see this in any other way, and I think almost anybody would react in a similar fashion to the way I reacted."
"I just did not know how to react sitting there," Wolff said. "It goes on for a long time. One of these sessions may have gone on for two hours. You just don't know what to say."
Wolff added that, having seen how Trump reacts to an election loss, he thinks "there is mental illness here."