Author Michael Wolff, who has written "a series of blistering books" on Donald Trump, claimed that the president's instincts will "sabotage" Republicans during the 2026 midterms when they can least afford to lose their slim majority in the House, according to The Daily Beast podcast.
“Fundamentally, Donald Trump is self-destructive,” Wolff told host Joanna Coles. “All of the kinds of things he’s doing now will result in him losing—certainly losing the House of Representatives,” Wolff said.
Wolff added that he plans for the GOP losses to be "impressive," especially due to the economic uncertainty Trump has wrought with his self-imposed trade war that has received little pushback from Republicans.
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"Democrats need a net gain of just three seats to retake the House, where Republicans hold the narrowest majority since the 1930s," wrote The Beast's Erkki Foster. "Their odds are strong in any circumstances—the president’s party usually loses ground in midterm elections. In the 2018 midterms, during Trump’s first term in the White House, Democrats picked up 40 seats to retake the House."
Losing the House could open Trump up to his third impeachment proceedings.
But, "the bad news for Republicans doesn’t end there," Foster wrote. Wolff predicted that "a Trump 'proxy' will be the GOP nominee in 2028, only to be brought down by Trump himself."
“That person will lose because (Trump) will undermine them because he doesn’t want them to win,” Wolff told the podcast. Instead, Trump himself wants to "maintain his grip on the Republican Party" at all costs.
And he just might get the chance; Wolff maintained that Trump's charisma makes him “more compelling than any other politician in the United States because you can’t take your eyes off of him.”
