Trump lands himself in the 'worst situation' possible — and he can't recover: biographer
Donald Trump could be approaching the "beginning of the end" for his presidency, according to a political biographer.
Michael Wolff, who spent time observing the Trump team in the White House during his first term in the Oval Office, believes the Iran war could be the end of the administration's effectiveness. Speaking on The Daily Beast podcast Inside Trump's Head, Wolff claimed that Trump had simply never been in a situation this bad before.
He said, "I think this situation is the worst situation he has gotten himself into. I think we can go broader on it: On a tipping point scale, this is very much, very clearly—I think indisputably—the beginning of the end. He’s not going to recover from this."
Trump, Wolff went on to argue, has no idea how to get himself out of the Iran war trouble and the backlash may be too severe whatever he decides to do.
"He literally doesn't know," Wolff said. "In business as usual, he would declare victory, but we’re over that line. That’s not believable anymore. Him declaring victory would immediately make it clear that we have lost and the Iranians had won.
"The other side of that is that he can become more aggressive, but more aggression only seems to give the Iranians more backbone, more determination to use the leverage they have against us, and actually, the world."
Wolff went on to suggest Trump could try and "take everyone around him with him" should this be the start of his decline.
Wolff, a longtime Trump biographer and author of "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House," has become a prominent critic of the Trump administration.
Trump's communications team has repeatedly attacked Wolff, with White House communications director Steven Cheung calling him a "lying sack" with "Trump Derangement Syndrome." Despite the Trump administration's dismissals, Wolff continues to publish controversial claims about the president's actions and intentions.