White House officials say Trump is ‘out of meds’ after posting vile video
The post remained live for 12 hours before it was finally deleted.
Michael Wolff, Trump’s biographer, further told Joanna Coles In Trump’s head that officials were stunned when the post went up.
“I talked to people at the White House about this, and their opinion was – you know, let me quote: ‘off his meds,'” Wolff said, according to a newscast.
Even GOP politicians publicly criticized the vile post.
Former Trump chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said this NewsNationKellie Meyer says the post could be disastrous for Republicans ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. Vulnerable incumbents, he said, were “beside themselves” at the thought of having to defend the video before voters.
Staffers said Trump had clearly crossed a line.
“They can recognize when Trump is too Trumpy, when he has gone further than they expected,” Wolff said. “And at that point they recognized that something probably happened, that something pushed him over the edge, which is another term they use.”
The White House did its utmost to contain the fallout. Press secretary Karoline Leavitt tried to downplay the post as one Lion King reference, even though the movie doesn’t feature any monkeys.
The administration later suggested that an unnamed employee had uploaded the video.
Trump contradicted that on Air Force One, claiming he had not watched the full clip: “No. I watched it, I saw it, and I only watched the first part … I didn’t see the whole thing. I think there was something at the end that people don’t like. I wouldn’t like it either, but I didn’t see it.”
Wolff said Trump’s frequent Truth Social outbursts allow him to vent in ways that aren’t immediately apparent.
“One of the themes of the campaign among Trump’s associates was, ‘Thank God he’s doing this on Truth Social instead of Twitter because he’s the only one on Truth Social,’” he mused. ‘No one sees it. But it is clear, and this was an explicit point, that if anyone saw it, he or she would understand that there is something very special going on here.”
Wolff noted that while the media is monitoring Trump’s activities, there is a limit to what can be reported.
“Being a news organization, you can only handle so many things. You have to choose from the most inflammatory things,” Wolff said. “But among the most inflammatory, there is then a descending order of other madness. And you can’t produce a headline. This is part of the problem. You can’t produce a headline that says, ‘The president of the United States went completely crazy last night.'”
Trump’s manic posting, which often includes dozens of videos in one session, keeps the staff on edge. “You would write that every day,” Wolff added.
