What Trump Really Thinks of Women on His Team | Inside Trump's Head

I think the subject of the women around Trump is an interesting subject, because they have been the people. kind of most willing to be abject, most willing to kind of sign up to, you know, we are we are the women of Donald Trump. And, and we have no pretense. otherwise we are here. Not because we have we see an independent life for ourselves,

and we understand that we are here to exist only in the shadow. of Donald Trump, and to try to please him as we can. Michael. Joanna, so, so much to discuss. I'm still in Abu Dhabi for the bridge conference. where we are discussing important things about misinformation and disinformation.

and where the media and the tech world has come to discuss such things. What a snore. What a snore. It's actually not a snore. I've never been here before. And it's it's interesting. And as you're always saying, it's where it's where people come to look for money. And there are a lot of people here looking for money. Yeah. No, it'd be more interesting to talk about money. than it would be to talk about media. But each it us. Some talk of money. Poly markets said that the first firing of Trump's. cabinet would be Kristi Noem.

You know, do you. Have any thoughts on this? Well, my my first my first thought is that it's remarkable. how long people have lasted. This is very, Trumpian behavior. The fact that all of these people has have stayed in place now for coming on. We're we're we're we're coming up to the year mark. That's a long tenure in Trump world. So I think you have to ask, well what's happened here?

What what has changed here. And I think that the answer is. that he has successfully hired. complete, utter, total lackeys. So what you get fired for mostly. is, you get fired for, for, two things. Maybe. Maybe only one thing. And that is for getting too much press yourself.

for taking credit for, for being out front of Donald Trump. And, and and and I suppose, yes, it. if you if you disagree with him in private. but but that's even less so because very, very hard to disagree with Donald Trump. because he's obviously, as we've discussed, talking all the time. So it's really your outward demeanor. But all of these people have been,

you know, from one to another to another to another in. have have been abject in their devotion. to Donald Trump, their public devotion. So, I mean, which is interesting because. because, you know, none of these, these people are all, all sub competent in, at, in their own particular egregious way.

But that doesn't get you fired. Although we might be getting to that point. Pete Hegseth, you know, let's, let's draw a red circle around around Pete. And I would tend to think that Pete would be the first person. to go, but, but there are some, you know, as, as you say, some some betting, you know, the Kristi Noem factor. I mean, Kristi Noem is a spectacular idiot. I mean, among among all of the idiots.

And Trump has cornered the market on them. Kristi Noem Kristi Noem may be the real the real thing. Remember, she's the she's the shot the dog person. She's the shot the puppy person. Right. And it wasn't a dog. Even a puppy. The reason that she has been in this, in this job and in and remember, you there was. in terms of hiring someone to hire the shoot the dog person.

The puppy person is, I mean, it took a lot of a lot of, you know, that's a real counterintuitive move. Why did he hire, Kristi Noem in this role? Because she was the governor of South Dakota. Can I just raise her nickname, which we we coined at the Daily Beast? Ice Bobby, because she has a way of getting dressed up. for the various things that ice make her do,

or that she wants to go on and and take video opportunity. That puts her. should put her in the firing line right now. Because among among the unpopular aspects of the Trump. administration, in everything, every day becomes more unpopular. But among the most unpopular things are these Ice raids. They're because they're they're caught on camera, masked men in black, refusing.

to identify themselves, ripping people off the street, ripping. People. out of their homes, ripping families apart. I mean, what's not to love? So, and and she has become. quite the face of that, but step back and say, well, why is she in this? In why? Why does she have a cabinet post? She has a cabinet post because she has.

had a long running relationship. She's married. The person she's having this relationship with is married. The person this, this person is, is a long time Trump hanger on. I think that's pretty much how we would most accurately describe him. This is a man by the name of Corey Lewandowski, who was, Trump's first kind of official.

campaign manager in, 2016. He may have even started in 2015. And, and then he, he lasted. for, well, until he lasted until they pushed him out. But not before, having relationships with other. Trump, other Trump staffers. He is a,

I don't know. He he must be very attractive. He's friendly. Man. I think it's fair to say friendly about it. When you say relationship, it's important to add. the Christie name is denied that they're having an affair. But he travels with her wherever they go. And, he's an unofficial advisor. Or he's an official advisor. He's got a limited number of days. He can work with her, I believe. Yeah, I, I don't know. And I mean, I don't know, I mean, I think he is.

on the Homeland Department payroll, but I don't know that for sure. But he must be on somebody's payroll. In the I mean, he was. he had worked himself back. I mean, he's the people in Trump world are always pushing him out. They hate him. And, Why do they why do they hate him. in a world where everybody hates everybody, why do they put. They're united in their hate for they. Hate Corey Lewandowski more.

And, I, I think that he is he is even more than the, than the other duplicitous people around Donald Trump. He is even more so. And he is even more, feral in his efforts. to be the person closest to Donald Trump. So, so. And the reason that we're talking about him.

is because is he the reason that Christie name got the job? Yes, absolutely. So this was a famous, you know, in, in and it's it's interesting. So he came back into the K was outside of the campaign. or had limited purchase on the campaign. But then somehow, he got. Trump to, to as a kind of a, you know, he needed a paycheck. So, you know, Trump called up the campaign, called up Susie.

Wiles and said, you know, poor Corey. So they had to make a job for for Corey. And then, lo and behold, as soon as they made the job, then Corey. started to announce, far and wide that he was, taking over the campaign. And then he would stalk around. the headquarters in, in, in Palm Beach, you know, asking people what they do, moving desks. It was in this was, after. I remember exactly when this I think this was in.

August of the, 2024, the entire campaign organization became became, went into chaos. Who was Corey? What was he doing here? Who did he report to? Who was in charge? Was he was he here because Trump wanted him to be here, or was he here just because he's Corey and he's an asshole? And nobody could figure this this out.

And then finally the the, the campaign leadership. approached Trump and they said, basically, we're going to we're going to quit. If if you don't get rid of this, if you don't do something about this. So Corey was sent packing. But to be sent packing in Trump world is a. is a strange thing because if you're. you don't really even if you even if the. the entire organization rejects you,

you may not have been rejected by Trump himself. Because if you are. flattering enough, if you are abject. enough, if you are perceived as loyal in the way. Trump demands you to be loyal, then you remain Trump's guy. So Corey has been pushed out of Trump world, but not out of Trump's. own world, if you know what I mean.

Okay, which is the inner circle of people working very closely with him. But then Donald Trump has his own. So. Exactly, exactly. Okay. You know, that's how Rudy Giuliani in. the last administration got disastrously, in, in. central to what was what was going on. But, so, so, Corey, when, when, when Trump was reelected. and then Corey, this this was Corey's piece of patronage.

was to get his girlfriend a job in some. Okay. So she's now sitting atop Homeland Security. And so we, I, we don't know if we can say girlfriend because they deny. So they have denied this. No one that I know. in the greater universe takes that denial seriously. But they have denied this. Okay, well, we should report that. They have denied it. They have denied it.

Okay? They denied I believe I believe they've denied it. They've definitely denied it. So Kristi Noem, background governor, former governor of South Dakota is she's. Just a. She's heritage homeland security. She's a monster. Again. It's just this is just head smacking, a person who has no, no experience, patently no talent.

Is a famous, even in Trump world, a famous dummy. There she is at the head of of a of a of a. of a very vital part of the, of the government in the United States in of particularly of Trump's government, because immigration essentially which which the. the portfolio she holds is so central to what they are trying to accomplish. Well, so she's in charge of border security.

and she's in charge of the Ice raids, which, as you say, have become wildly unpopular, largely. because the videos that have spread on social media are heartrending, of people being knocked to the floor of these terrifying figures in masks, arresting people of choppers coming down in Chicago late at night. And just the performative nature of some of these arrests. You know, this is this is against the background. People have a lot of conflicting views on immigration.

And, and obviously the Democrats have botched. that issue entirely in completely, arguably. allowing Donald Trump to become the president of the United States. I mean, this is his he has made it his issue. And, and it remains a singularly important to him. And so so why would he then go about the business. of completely undermining, undermining,

the, the consensus that he has achieved there. by having let's let's just think this through. Men in Mask in Black, who refused to identify themselves, who are out on the streets, engaged in all kinds of extra legal, you know, Gestapo like behavior. This is going to win your friends.

It's beyond me. Yeah. And also, what's striking about ice, Bobby, as we refer to, Christie, you know, and thanks to our editor, Martha, for coming up with that title. She appears to love dressing up, in costume. In the costume of whoever she's going out with. So it might be the ice people. It might be the Coast Guard. She loves turning up with a gun.

She loves turning up on horseback. She loves turning up with a big American cowboy hat on and playing a role. as if she's, well, as if she's a Barbie doll. alongside, alongside the. I don't know if you call them troops, whatever you call them. But alongside her employees in the her department. And as if the only thing that matters is her. dressing in an appropriate costume, it's quite extraordinary. Yeah. No. And let's let's go back to this.

Friendship she has with Corey Lewandowski. How that has not been, You know, I don't know, a scandal. I mean, there's some it's at some level Trump has in the Trump. administration has broken all middle class requirements. To Susie Wiles is supposed to have everything. under control at the white House. What does she have to say about this?

Well, like, I mean, I mean, you know, this this Susie. and this is a good subject, and I think this is an underreported subject, that that Susie Wiles, who has been given an enormous amount of credit. for the relative, efficiency, I think you might be able to call it of the first year has now. I mean, there are lots of reports that she's been,

That she's being pushed somewhat to the side. Oh, really? Because she's chief of staff. I mean, the first famously the first female chief of staff. Right. But, you know, so her idea of the chief of staff and her in her own. longevity in this, in this, in this role, remember, there are four chiefs of staff. in the first, Trump White House. is because she's. not the chief of staff. I mean, she has sort of set her up as the first, I would say the first.

the chief administrator. Okay. So she's not actually, being so foolish as to think that she has any real decision making power, which is a bit like, isn't. that what the first four chiefs of staff in the first administration ran into, that they actually thought they were going to behave like normal chiefs of. Staff in a in a typical white House structure, the president is the CEO, the chief of staff is the CEO.

And and part of part of the. the portfolio of the chief of staff. is to be the top adviser to the president of the United States, in addition to being the person who gets to train, who who implements policy and who is the essential. boss of everybody in the executive branch. She has not done that role. She doesn't advise the president of the United States.

She is has been very careful. about overstepping anyone in the executive branch. who might have a direct relationship with the president of the United States. And the thing that is, I think has most come back to shadow her. is a perception that, that she is interested most of all in protecting herself. rather than in protecting the president.

So it's a kind of. I mean, I think that that has probably. helped the first year she has been. that person who is, you know, she's a she's an administrator. She has gone out there. She has she has made the trains run on time, which they. So but when you say she's not in a straight, what is she administration. You know, what does that actually mean? Meeting schedules. Okay.

When things have to be done, how do you get them done? Whose responsibility are they? You know, the. person in the in the in the back, in the back room. who is making sure that everybody else is. on top of what they should be on top of? You know, and any organization needs. this kind of person. And Trump's organizations have typically not had this person, but they have had her and she has done, you know, she's done a pretty good job.

But the the I mean, her. her in and certainly throughout the campaign people, people. people would say say this that it doesn't matter what you say about the president, it just matters what you say about Susie. for Susie Wiles. And that has now begun to. That's that sense that she's looking out for that. She's number one, looking out for herself rather than looking out for Trump,

which is a very hard thing to do, because then you start to look out, look after Trump, and then you start to give him advice. Very bad idea. Very bad idea. So. So why is Kristi Noem in the hot seat? Why is she. number one on Polly Market's list of the first to be fired? I couldn't tell you because I would put it, you know, so. many other people certainly up there. You know, I mean, I think Hegseth, as I've said, should certainly be up there.

RFK junior oh, my God. Oh, Beto cash Patel. Don't even mention it. Pam Bondi. again and again and again and again. A bunch. It's such. A rush. So. So why should why should she, you know, there, there, there is that kind of thing. I mean, this is this would be the traditional way. you look at administration. Things start to go wrong.

And things are things are. I mean, very clearly going going wrong. The polls are against him. Every election so far has been a disappointment at best for him. So you shake things up. I mean, one of the things you do, you do, that's you, you know, you replace people. I mean, that's what you do in, in, in, in government a it sends, it sends a signal and then it also is, it's, it's,

you know, it's helpful, gives that sense of, of a new start and. and, you know, and all of these, I mean, certainly certainly. she's well, you're not going to lose anything by getting rid of her. So she would be a good person to sacrifice. Okay. And then you could sort of reframe the border, which I think people. believe is under control now, and stop the Ice raids. so that you don't get that,

stream of very unsettling, unnerving videos in the run up to the midterm. Yeah. Does she get blamed? But but again, there is that Trump thing that he's that he takes no blame. Even even he refuses the blame that might be apportioned to people around him. There is no blame. Nothing is wrong. Everything is great. Nothing is wrong. Nothing. So that's that's makes it very hard for him to fire somebody.

Well, one of the reports I saw, I think perhaps in the beast that that the, the current rumor was that Glenn Youngkin, the outgoing Republican. governor of Virginia, might end up being a plausible replacement for her. That could happen in the new year. Yeah, I that seems, unlikely to me. I mean, in other words, that would be going back to the first administration. where you where you, where you actually put out, you know, tried to find plausible people who would work for Donald Trump.

So in the second administration. that the strategy has been exactly the opposite of that. Forget plausibility all you want, people who all you want. are people who are going to be abject in their, in their regard for Donald Trump, Donald Trump is the center of the universe. And if you have any doubts about that at all, you shouldn't you're you. it's very clear you should not go into the administration.

Glenn Youngkin is a is a you know, he's an ambitious politician. You know, there are a scant few ambitious politicians in Trump world. I think the subject of the women around Trump is an interesting subject, because they have been the people. kind of most willing to be abject, most willing to kind of sign up to, you know, we are we are the women of Donald Trump.

And and we have no pretense. Otherwise we are here. Not because we have we see an independent life for ourselves. We are here and we understand that we are here, to, to exist. only in the shadow of Donald Trump. and to do. And to try to please him as we can.

Well, except there's been a bit of pushback. So that started by Marjorie Taylor Greene. saying she's not going to be a battered wife. And then Lauren Boebert, another congresswoman, throwing her, hands up in the air and saying, this is a difficult, administration for women. And I might drop out, too. And then Nancy Mace got actually a bit of a slap on the wrist. from the police in Charleston, where she had a sort of breakdown.

at the airport and been screaming and effing and blinding at people. And they those three who all, voted against Trump and demanded, with Thomas Massie and Roy. Connor, the release of the Epstein files seem to be putting up a bit of resistance. to Trump at the moment. Yeah, well, they are not in the administration. Let's let's make that, that that. Sanction. Okay. So that and Trump has has I mean, I think that he has in. his regard for these women is to see them in that light.

They are they are acolytes of his women acolytes. Of of Donald Trump. I think what we've seen is that he has overestimated. their willingness to be doormats. And that's that becomes an that becomes an issue. because he becomes resentful of that, in other words. So Marjorie Taylor Greene has now become somehow enemy number one from.

effectively doormat number one. Now she's enemy number one. And that's remember, that's that that that that Trump thing. It's all binary. You're with me or you're against me. If you're against me, I am against you. So, so I think we've seen that break there. The women who are in the administration, the, the, the cabinet members.

in our room remain quiescent. Let's say Pam. Bondi. Has not shown has not shown any any, interest in an independent life. The idea of independence, I I'm not sure. she would even even understand that or know what to do with it. Well, and of course, she has now been forced to, hire your friend Elina Harbor, who got tossed from acting as the US attorney in new Jersey,

although she said, strangely, you can take new Jersey out of that. What? What is that? So you can take the girl out of New Jersey, but you can't take new Jersey? Yes. It's the girl. Yes, I what could that part I read? I'm being from new Jersey. I puzzled over this. But following in the. footsteps of Lindsay Halligan, who was illegally appointed as U.S. attorney in Virginia, Alina Harbor has now been.

Well, she's resigned after being found that. she was illegally, acting U.S. attorney in New Jersey. What are your thoughts on this? Well, yeah. I mean, I mean, let's go. I mean, he's appointed these people who are, patently unqualified. These are, by any measure, not top of the class people. They have I mean, in these are, you know, the the, you know, a U.S. attorney's job is, I mean, first thing, it is a very significant job.

It's a very prestigious job. And, it's a, you know, it's a complicated job. And so to put these. people, and I was going to say, put these women, but I took that back because, you know, I mean, he would he would be delighted. to put in, in some instances has put and men of, of, of no caliber whatsoever in, in these jobs.

But I think that he feels more comfortable with, with women than men. I think he feels more comfortable that women will be compliant, that women will be. will have no interest other than in doing what he wants to do. And I think that's what that's what. Eleanor Harbor, you know, certainly is, is.

is that person and now but but. but but he's setting up a kind of conflict now, a curious conflict, because I'm sure Pam Bondi does not want. a Lena Harbor in, anywhere near her. First thing she's, she's. she's kind of, you know, I mean, poisoned goods at this at this point. But now she's been, Pam Bondi is kind of stuck.

They had to do something with her. What are we going to do with the Lena Harbor? She can't. We can't we can't sustain her presence. in new Jersey, in the office in new Jersey anymore. It's it's all kinds of I mean, the office is basically paralyzed. No, nothing can get it. Nothing can get done here. We have nowhere else. And we can't. We can't. There is no court that is going to say yes, you can have Eleanor Harbor as the U.S. attorney.

So we have to do. Something her for open boundaries. Got a quiver of failed U.S. attorneys because she's also got Lindsay Halligan, and they famously just lost her case against Tish James and James case. Right. So so what are they going to do with Lindsay Halligan? I mean, Elina Harbor. has been a consistent kind of what are we going to do with Elina Harbor? Question from from, from the first days, you know, she wanted to be the press secretary, campaigned hard for that job.

Nobody wanted her to have that job. And, And and why why was that? Why didn't they want her to have that job? Well, like, during the campaign, Trump spent a lot of time, trying to. saying to Elina Harbor, you have to clean up your language. You can't talk like that. People don't talk like that. Women don't talk like that. You know what you sound like?

What could she possibly. Not constantly. Yes. It is not as if people haven't known that. she is a not ready for prime time player. They have, and, that's why she didn't get the, the most public facing job. in the white House, which is which is, which is, the press secretary and. I think which has gone to Caroline. Leave it with her machine gun lips. Exactly. Donald Trump loves her.

And then she wanted to be the, the, the ambassador, the U.S. ambassador to the UN. She didn't get that job. So there's a whole set of things. And then. And then she got the the prosecutor's job because, you know, that's what Trump has done. I mean, that's why, you know, all of these people, you know, that's the. that's the one of the his key issues. I need to control the prosecutor because I have people I want prosecutors.

who will do that. The, the. the in really in many instances because he's tried again and again. and everybody quits or says, no, he has to put in his own lackeys, these, these women who are not prosecutors, who are barely lawyers. And, and because they'll do what he wants to do. So that's how a Lena Lena Harbor got that job. But now what to do with her?

Okay. And what do we know about Rollins, the agriculture secretary, who this week, was announcing with Trump his $12. billion bailout to the farmers. because the tariffs have meant that Chinese farmers have. or the Chinese government have stopped ordering as much, certainly soybeans from American farmers. They've been very badly hit. Right. Well, Brooke Rollins ran the the America First.

Oh, PAC. Yeah. Yeah. RFP. So she ran that, and she was, and this is this is significant. She was Jared's person. Okay. And, and there was a moment during. the campaign when she. Jared and. her, her, her group floated. the balloon that she was going to be the chief of staff.

That was an interesting moment because everybody in within the campaign was like. Like what? Where did that come from? That came from Jared. And that was a that was a that was an interesting moment, because the fact that she did not become. chief of staff was a signal. that Jared was not ascendant. People were waiting for that signal. Is Jared going to come back into the white House?

What what is the nature of his power so that was the signal. that perhaps he was not ascendant. Now, this is complicated because because Susie Wiles is also a Jared person. But she had more of an independent life. then then then Brooke Rollins, who was entirely connected to Jared. Now, obviously she got a big job. So Jared was not without influence within the within the white House and,

and his influence, which waxes and wanes, seems to be waxing again at this point, but that's the that's the that's the Brooke Rollins context. Well, let's go back to Pam Bondi a second, though, too, because because, you know, I mean, Pam is, you know, is is is a central. I mean, I would say that, you know, again, you know, this the Justice Department. and control over the Justice Department and, control.

over, over over the power, that is to say, the prosecution, the prosecutorial power of the Justice. Department is central to Donald Trump at this, at this point. And so and so he put Pam Bondi into this job. And, you know, again, remember, it was going to be Matt Gates, and and,

and and within the, within the Trump circle, you know, I mean, gates, everybody was going, oh my God. You know, because I mean, Matt Gates has been has had so many problems. And, you know, I mean, drug problems allegations. Underage sex allegations. I mean, just in a light weight of Playboy. You know, how. Strange looking with his eyebrows, too. I mean, I wouldn't have thought that would appeal to Trump at all, because he's not central casting for an AG.

Oh, I'm, you know, I'm not sure about that. I mean, I you know, I think the perception within the Trump world was that he, that that, that Gates's. actually handsome, a kind of rakish, you know, Florida Playboy kind of guy. Really. I think he looks like someone from star Trek. Well, okay. Well, Slightly. Each to his own. Space. And, you know, and clearly Pam Bondi does not look, as you might think,

an attorney general would, would look, if you were if you were casting this. You're the one that's always saying that. Donald Trump. said, you know, I may not have the best lawyers, but I've got the hottest lawyers. And of course, she was one of his personal lawyers. So she was also the US attorney in Florida, right? She was, yes. But virtually everyone within the within. the white House, I mean, this is remember, it's Florida, you know, Florida. makes an exception for almost every, every level of competence.

And, but they would say that the only person less qualified to be. the attorney general in Florida, than Matt Gates, was Pam Bondi. And and again, you know, she has been she has displayed. utter abject loyalty to Donald Trump. So Donald Trump's, yeah. I mean, I would say a key pillar of what he has wanted to do in the.

in the second administration was to take the any, any aspect of independence from the United States Justice Department. So, so, Michael, which cases did she work on for him? Because Elina Harbor, did the Stormy Daniels case. Right. So what was Pam Bondi doing? Because I know she was his personal lawyer to. You know, people say that she was the personal, personal lawyer. And I'm sure that this is that this is true.

But certainly in the cases during the, during the campaign, I mean, the for indictments, I don't know, she was certainly not central to, to any of those cases. Okay. But she was still his personal life. Yeah. I don't know this. I mean, I mean, this seems to be now a generic title. Trump's personal lawyer. He was a personal lawyer. Because everybody everybody is.

I mean, first thing, he hires so many lawyers. So it is it is possible. And whether that was, you know, she's she's. you know, whenever he gets a piece of advice. that he doesn't like, he calls in another lawyer to, to, you know, he's always shopping for advice. But no, none of those cases, those four. those four indictments was she a. was she a central point person on. Okay. But she certainly remaking the Justice Department as he wants her to do so.

Well say. Well, yes, he is remaking the. Justice. Department and she is just going along. I really don't think that she has any. I mean, I you know, I understand, you know, he's on the phone. with her constantly basically giving, giving orders. Do this, do this, do this, do this. Well and and we saw the true social post he put out, which was in fact, I think, supposed to be a text to her because it started Pam. And then it was a long list of all the people he wanted indicted.

And why was it all taking so long to remember and he. Yeah, no, it was really a text to him and he to her. And he then put it out on social media. And that was basically he was saying Letitia James, James Comey and Comey. Jack Smith. Yeah, all of this, this and and obviously Letitia, James. Comey and James, those have been thrown out. because of just pure the pure incompetence of of. not just not just the Justice Department, but mostly of Trump himself.

and the incompetence who he has put in to supersede the Justice Department. So even in abject Justice Department, he. he might choose to supersede that. No, nobody in the Justice Department, will prosecute James Comey. So will will, you know, Russell, Lindsay Halligan out of her bed and, and put her in the job, which has been nothing less than catastrophic for it.

I got to imagine what the Justice Department's. holiday party can possibly be like. Do you think they still have one? Do you think Pam Bondi? Sort of. They probably do. I think I think I they should invite us. I would love to go. Where where do you think the holiday parties are going to be? Are they in the. I mean, what is Pete Hegseth holiday party going to be like? Obviously his wife will be there.

She turns up, you know. The whole idea. Of emotional support. Was. I mean, the the. just the imagination boggles at the holiday parties. that must be going on in government departments right now. Yeah. You know, I, I mean, and let's add the context here too, that everybody is aware that things are going south. This is the. Economy. People feel this is not going. This is not a good moment for Trump world.

And until recently it had been a very good moment. So Michael, we have some questions for Melania. Okay. Shoot. Here's one from TS Gould. Melania, do you have a Social Security number and when did you get it? Do you remember how much it cost in brackets? Trick question I like that. When where did you first meet Jeffrey Epstein?

Where did you first meet Glenn Maxwell? Will you be able to subpoena, should you subpoena. some of Glenn Maxwell's siblings? She's one of seven. Yeah. I mean, if that's if that's relevant. I mean, most of them, well, most of them don't live in the country. The ones who do live in the country. Yes, it's it's possible. But didn't. you think that the birthday letter had been leaked by one of her brothers?

I do, but as I say, the brothers don't live in this country. So you can't subpoena people who live in the UK. Yeah. You can, but they don't have to come. Okay, okay. But they might want to come because they're working. very hard to get a pardon for their sister. Okay. So Michael, this is from Eric in San Diego, the east wing of the white House has. traditionally been used by the first lady on her staff.

Did you agree to its destruction? Good question. We've had so many questions. We've got a very thoughtful one from a German trauma therapist. That question was a little bit long to read out. Helena, 17 and seven. One says, Ask Melania if her husband has the qualifications. to be a leader of this great country. What these credentials might be. Okay. I think we can get there.

Okay. Jet 619. Question for Melania. How does she feel about the auto burial of Ivana on the golf course? Does she think Ivana is really in that coffin? And does she want to be buried in. The Trump. White Cemetery as well? Exactly. That's a good that's a good one where if you're Melania Trump, do you want to spend eternity? Yes. And then Stephen Pemberton wants to know, asked Melania. What are the duties of a first lady?

Or alternatively, what was she told of the duties of a first lady? What is her understanding of the duties of the First Lady? Okay, good. Thanks. And I think we know that Christmas is certainly a duty of it. And she was reading how the Santa's come down the chimney. dusty when night goggles or night vision goggles? No. Pete Hegseth was those. I made that joke in our last podcast, but I quite liked it, so I thought I would make it again.

It's just a strange thing to have a children's book. Night vision goggles. Well, why would children know what they were? They are a tool of the military. Very odd indeed. Yes. Anybody who has would like to contribute. to the upcoming deposition of the First Lady, please. We are, we are taking suggestions. Ask what you would would like. Okay. Well, Michael will be back on Saturday.

with more info. Please call your friends in the white House. and find out what's happening with the holiday parties. I'm very intrigued. Will it be like the holiday parties during Covid at number ten Downing Street, where spats, as they announce special advisers. were taking in suitcases, suitcases. full of alcohol, the entire country was on lockdown. The Queen had to sit on her.

own the night before the funeral. for her husband of 200 years, Prince Philip. Never has a monarch looked so frail as the Queen. Sitting isolated in a mask at the funeral in Saint George's Chapel in Windsor. and the night before, number ten, led by Boris. Johnson, was throwing back as much alcohol as they could. The Brits party a lot better than, than the Americans.

Any party in Washington DC pales. before almost any other party. So, so I wouldn't get too excited about this. Well, I all I can say is I've never heard of a red solo cup. before I moved to America. Brits do take part in quite seriously. I'm. I'm always disappointed to miss holiday parties in Britain, actually, because much alcohol is consumed, much food is laid out, always lots of ham. Whereas whereas in the US the goal is to miss the holiday party.

Your goal is to miss the holiday party. I think most people, if were they to be honest, you know, people go to holiday parties, you know, dutifully. Well, I hope they don't go to the Daily Beast holiday party display. We are definitely having a holiday party and you are coming to it, sir. You are definitely coming to. It's a very groovy club. Yeah, yeah, it will certainly be. The trend is coolest place we've been for a long time. We're going to drag you in from Amagansett.

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