President Donald Trump's latest midterm gaffe was his most revealing yet, and it signaled that we are headed for a "very messy moment," according to one of his biographers.
Journalist Michael Wolff, who has written four books about Trump, discussed the president's recent comments about the approaching midterm elections during this week's cabinet meeting on a new episode of "Inside Trump's Head," a podcast he co-hosts with Joanna Coles of The Daily Beast. During the meeting, Trump told a reporter that he "doesn't care about the midterms," and that his primary goal is to ensure Iran does not develop a nuclear weapon.
"Saying 'I don't care' is basically 'f--- you,'" Wolff said.
Trump's comments came at a time when Republicans have expressed concerns about the upcoming election. Although the GOP seems likely to pick up 10 House seats through the redistricting wars, recent polling suggests Democrats hold momentum as the calendar turns to November.
Wolff added that it showed Trump is backed into a corner, which is when he tends to be his most "audacious" and "dangerous" self.
"Basically, he is saying that he desperately cares, and that he recognizes that his back is to the wall, that he's in a corner that he can't get out of," Wolff said.
"So the 'I don't care, I'm above it all' guy is really down in the mud thinking of some slur or libel to save himself or some new enemy, to elevate and attack, some preposterous lie to spread and some emergency to declare," he continued. "This could be a very messy moment or an ugly Trump moment at this point, that he's going to blame us for demanding that he care."