President Donald Trump is facing "a real problem" coming from inside his own house that he can't outrun, according to one of his biographers.

Journalist Michael Wolff told Joanna Coles of The Daily Beast on a new episode of their podcast, "Inside Trump's Head," on Tuesday that Melania Trump has become "a matter of serious concern" inside the White House. He cited her recent Amazon-backed movie and her press conference, where she denied having any ties to the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, as actions that have raised eyebrows among administration officials.

"So everybody within the White House is like, 'Oh my God, the Melania situation is a real problem,'" Wolff said. "And it has raised all kinds of questions about their marriage, about actually how she came to this country, about the nature of her relationship with Trump and with this guy, Paulo Zampolli."

"That, of course, is now coming out in the last couple of weeks. So, Melania is seen as a problem," he added.

Wolff also warned that the recent attacks the Trumps waged against late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel will only make matters worse.

Kimmel made a joke that Melania Trump looked as "beautiful as an expectant widow" during one of his shows before the shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner last Saturday. The Trumps have since used the event to call for ABC to remove Kimmel from the airwaves.

"There is now the feeling that that has kind of screwed up, and rather than engender sympathy, it's just drawn the lines, drawn more attention to her, more attention to their peculiar marriage, or maybe not quite marriage at all," Wolff said. "And again, the Melania of it all is now under scrutiny and has now become a matter of serious concern in the White House."

A legal expert on Tuesday exposed the "pretext" President Donald Trump's Federal Communications Commission is using in its latest bid to stymie free speech.

Elie Honig, a former federal prosecutor, discussed the FCC's investigation into Disney's DEI policies during a panel discussion on CNN's "NewsNight" with host Abby Phillip. He argued that the way the panel discussed the investigation revealed something more nefarious at play.

"The way we're talking about this at this table, all of us, exposes that this is a pretext piled atop another pretext," Honig said. "We all know this is not about DEI policies. We're not even really talking about it this way. We know it's about the content of speech. We know it's about the jokes Jimmy Kimmel made. We know it's about the kind of things that he says. That's what's prompting all of this."

Trump's FCC reportedly ramped up its investigation into Disney after late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel made a joke about first lady Melania Trump that she and the president did not like.

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr lobbed a not-so-subtle threat at Disney during a podcast interview on Tuesday, saying the agency has the power to revoke the broadcaster's license before its expiration date, and put the company through a laborious process to get it back.

President Donald Trump is quietly telling administration insiders to prepare for an "extended" blockade of Iran as negotiations to end the war with the regime drag on.

On Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing "U.S. officials," that Trump has told his aides that the blockade of Iran will continue, as the two sides remain far apart on Trump's stated goal of getting the regime to give up its nuclear arms capabilities altogether. The report followed a meeting in the Situation Room on Monday, where Trump administration officials reviewed an offer to end the war from the Iranian regime that included reopening the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for delaying talks about nuclear weapons.

The report also suggests that Trump appears to be digging in and trying to tighten the screws on Iran's economy.

"In recent meetings, including a Monday discussion in the Situation Room, Trump opted to continue squeezing Iran’s economy and oil exports by preventing shipping to and from its ports," according to the report. "He assessed that his other options—resume bombing or walk away from the conflict—carried more risk than maintaining the blockade, officials said."

"Yet continuing the blockade also prolongs a conflict that has driven up gas prices, hurt Trump’s poll numbers and further darkened Republicans’ prospects in the midterm elections," it continued. "It has also caused the lowest number of transits through the Strait of Hormuz since the war began."