Why Trump Is Always Caught in Crisis: Rothkopf

Try QUO for free and get 20% off your first 6 months at David Rothkopf joins Joanna Coles for a breakdown of a surreal and unsettling weekend in Washington, where what should have been a glittering White House Correspondents’ Dinner spiraled into something far darker—and far more revealing about Donald Trump. As details emerge about the attempted attack and the security lapses surrounding it, Rothkopf argues the real “lone wolf” isn’t the would-be assailant but Trump himself, a president who thrives on chaos, weaponizes crisis, and immediately turned the moment into political theater—complete with a self-mythologizing press conference and renewed distractions from mounting crises abroad, including a deadly and destabilizing conflict in the Middle East. With insiders rattled, conspiracy theories spreading, and Trump’s poll numbers slipping, is this just another fleeting spectacle—or a revealing prism into a presidency defined by performance, paranoia, and power at any cost? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Why Trump Is Always Caught in Crisis: Rothkopf is an episode from The New Abnormal by The Daily Beast.

This episode is 57:21 long.

This episode was published on Apr 28, 2026.

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