'Fire and Fury' Podcast Hosts Michael Wolff and James Truman Say Prison Could Help Trump

A political journalist known for criticizing the Trump administration claimed that if former President Donald Trump was sentenced to spend time behind bars next month, he would simply use prison as a stage for a show.

In an episode of fire and fury podcast, Michael Wolff tells James Truman that the former commander in chief used his secret trial for complete entertainment, adding that being inside the courthouse was “exciting.” [and] quite dramatic. »

“You came as close to the real Donald Trump as I’ve ever seen,” Wolff said. “All the people around Donald Trump… everyone is crooks. And Trump, clearly, at the center of all of this is the crook in chief.”

Wolff said Trump is the kind of person who does “completely absurd” things and gets away with it, unlike most people. Then he compared the former president's show to Jerry Lewis' telethons.

“The feeling that he's in a position where he's going to be out of the picture is a dangerous place for him,” Wolff added. “On stage: he is in the role. It's Donald Trump.

When he's not performing, Wolff says, Trump is completely incoherent.

The podcast hosts described Trump as a flashy person, as a “Rat Pack type of guy.” They also said the media should talk about him like he was preparing for a UFC match, not from a political perspective. They said the presumptive Republican nominee for the 2024 presidential election showcased a “self-imposed imperial grandeur” at political events.

“Donald Trump. You can’t take your eyes off him,” Wolff said. “You don’t want to take your eyes off him.”

He also recalled how the late Roger Ailes of Fox News called Trump “Vegas 1965” and the type of man who made money to attract women.

“So he’s more Austin Powers than James Bond,” Truman laughed.

“The idea that would be turned into something that you couldn't brag about, share with locker room talk and that would now be literally indicting him and diminishing him in every way possible, I think that's not the case. “It wasn't just painful for him, but I think it's confusing,” Wolff said. “Times have changed and they've changed under him, at least in Manhattan, and he was irritated.”

Wolff said if Trump went to prison it would make him even more famous.

“I think if he went to prison, he would find a way to make it his scene,” Wolff said, adding that it would create even more fear among lawmakers and people who are responsible for Trump's incarceration . “It would have the effect of making him even more famous. Prison would become an extraordinary platform for him.