Trump administration insiders seem to be in denial about President Donald Trump going "off his rocker," which will make them unprepared for what comes next, according to an author.

Journalist Michael Wolff, who has written four books about Trump, said on a new episode of "Inside Trump's Head," a podcast he co-hosts with Joanna Coles of The Daily Beast, that Trump administration insiders he's spoken with recognize Trump's recent "erratic behavior," but some don't seem to see it as a symptom of a broader issue. He pointed to Trump's recent threat to annihilate the Iranian civilization as one example.

"We have two and a half years left of this term and a president who ... there is every reason to believe — and for every reasonable person to believe — that something is seriously off here and dangerous," Wolff said.

Wolff noted that Trump's threat to end the Iranian civilization sparked calls for his removal from office, which he theorized could come from Republican leadership in Congress.

However, there are many in the administration who still deny Trump's mental decline, Wolff said, which will make it harder for them to deal with it effectively as former President Joe Biden's staff did.

"This is big," Wolff noted. "Even to people who are having relatively frank discussions with me, and these are people, again, who I've known for a long time. It's, you know, 'We're all in this together' sense. And everybody acknowledges that Trump is unique.
Let's put it that way."

But this goes a step further," he added. "To begin to accept that the country's president and, in this case, the country's strongman, the man who has put himself at the center of everything, is off his rocker, is a seriously new ball game."

Stephen Miller, White House deputy chief of staff for policy and homeland security adviser in the Trump administration, sparked online backlash Tuesday night when he told Fox News the Democratic Party "controls its members through blackmail."

Miller joined Jesse Watters on his eponymous show to discuss the fallout of the resignations of Reps. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) and Tony Gonzales (R-TX), who were both accused of sexual misconduct with staffers.

"Couldn't have happened to a better person," Miller quipped over Swalwell's "bad week."

Miller then lobbed a wild theory.

"The most important part about this story — and look, Swalwell is a scumbag, he is a terrible person, the worst of the worst, the lowest of the low, the most dishonest of the most dishonest — but the real story here," Miller said, pointing a finger, "is how the Democrat party controls its members through blackmail."

"It's got a blackmail file on all of its politicians and it uses them to leverage and control them until it's time to release it," Miller declared. "That is how sick and twisted the Democrat Party is."

The bizarre theory echoes similar conspiracies that have followed the Epstein case.

And the internet predictably had thoughts about the comments.

Zeteo founder Mehdi Hasan replied, "Every Republican accusation is a confession."

Conservative attorney and Democratic Congressional candidate George Conway replied on X, ".@StephenM is a sick man, exhibit number 2,459,729."

Behavioral scientist Caroline Orr Bueno wrote on X, "Of course, Republicans would never blackmail each other. Putin is in charge of that."

"Jeopardy!" champion and YouTuber Hemant Mehta added, "Given that everything this administration says is projection…"

President Donald Trump's administration admitted on Tuesday to striking another foreign boat and killing four people, according to a new report.

The strike is the second in as many days, the New York Times reported, and marks the revival of one of the administration's most controversial policies. Since Trump began his second term, the administration has conducted 50 strikes against foreign boats, many of which were alleged to be carrying drugs. In all, the strikes have killed roughly 174 people.

"The U.S. Southern Command, led by Gen. Francis L. Donovan of the Marine Corps, announced the strike on social media with a 16-second video that showed a stationary boat floating in the water and then exploding," the report reads in part.

"Legal specialists on the use of lethal force have said the strikes are illegal, extrajudicial killings because the military cannot deliberately target civilians who do not pose an imminent threat of violence, even if those people are suspected of engaging in criminal acts," it added. "The Trump administration has not provided evidence of drug smuggling."