He's Going To Fire Her NEXT...

So as we all know by now, Katie Zachariah, Donald Trump's former press secretary, got fired today after just five days of being on the job, which is the shortest time ever that a press secretary has served in that role, making history today. And according to reports from Caitlin Collins and others, Donald Trump was embarrassed by the coverage of Zachariah's briefing, and when he polled other aides about her, Zachariah had few allies willing to stand up for her or defend her performance. The main reason he rushed to select her after growing irritated with how long the process was taking to replace Caroline Leavitt was because he wanted more people defending him on TV. When she failed to do so in a sufficient way with Sean Hannity, the interviewee talked about earlier today on the show, Trump said he knew she needed to go. But the problem for Donald Trump and the problem for MAGA is that Katie Zachariah might not be the only high-ranking Trump official on the way out, because we have some new reporting that Donald Trump is considering firing Susie Wiles, his White House chief of staff, the Ice Maiden, as she is referred to in Washington, D.C., a very powerful person. But Donald Trump is calling up people saying, do you think she needs to go? Could there be somebody better out there for this role? And it just goes to show you the absolute chaos taking place behind the scenes in this White House with less than like three weeks to go into the midterms. I mean, they're right around the corner, and all of these people might be on the outs. They may be getting fired. And this is what Trump said, actually, when he was confronted with this report earlier today. A journalist, while asking about Katie Zachariah, this is where he made his explosive comments that inevitably led to her firing, he said, well, the journalist said, "Are you considering firing Susie Wiles?" And Trump denied the story, saying, "Zero chance, zero." It was a fake story. Watch. What have you been doing replacing Susie Wiles? Are you considering replacing Susie Wiles? Zero chance, zero. What if you, what if we're probably going to lose an interest? It was a fake story. Let me just tell you. The Susie Wiles story was a fake story. She's been incredible. We've had maybe the most successful, first two years, and it's not even two years, in the history of the presidency. She's been my chief of staff. She's smart. She's tough. She just went through a lot with the cancer surgery and the whole thing. And she recovered, fully recovered. She's phenomenal. We told that to Politico. We said, "This story is totally wrong. And the only one that matters is me, because I'm the one that makes the decision." So they made up fake news. They released it knowing it was a fake story. Susie is here. And she's going to be here for a long time. I'm going to pay you back, Wiles. See, that sounds pretty unequivocal. For a normal person, you'd hear that and say, "Okay, well, then I guess that settles that." They're saying they're not going to fire them, and that kind of case closed, you know what I mean? But that's not the case with Donald Trump. How many times has he said this about one of his senior advisors, just for them to get fired, just days, weeks, months after? It's kind of like the thing that Donald Trump does. He always defends them at first, and then, uh, he kind of leans into it, and he becomes more convinced, and then, inevitably, he fires them, despite, you know, explanations like this. And I thought this response from Mason was really good, you know, kind of translating Donald Trump's language. "Zero chance equals she's gone by Halloween," which is the case with Donald Trump. And the report that he's referring to in Politico was this one, that Trump's ice maiden is under fire. Politico writes, "It's Susie's turn." At moments of frustration and adversity, Donald Trump has long made a habit of calling up friends to ask what they think of his advisors and whether he should consider making changes. These days, he's asking about Susie Wiles, the once unassailable White House chief of staff. Trump has long been soliciting allies' views of Wiles and musing about replacements for his top aide, according to four people with direct knowledge of the conversations. We're told Trump is getting plenty of encouragement from rivals to Wiles and people who felt burned by his loyal enforcer. Some have been sharing unfavorable coverage of Wiles and her family with the president. This is how gross the MAGA world is and kind of how gross D.C. is. I mean, there's no loyalty in D.C. There really isn't, especially in MAGA, right? All these people pretend to love Donald Trump's team and love everybody around them, but they're silently sabotaging them and giving Donald Trump negative stories. There's no loyalty in MAGA. Everybody thinks, at least on the MAGA side, I shouldn't say everybody, everybody on the MAGA side believes that MAGA is like this one big family. Everybody wants to help each other out. But in reality, it's a movement built on lies, on fraud, and if you join it, you're almost certainly going to get burned in some way at some time. Quote, "She's burned a lot of people," a Republican operative close to the White House said, but Trump has stood by her, saying, "Total fake news. Politico doesn't care about facts, integrity, or honest journalism. It's why I kicked them out of the White House. Susie Wiles is my loyal and longest-serving chief of staff. There's a reason for that. She has been with me since the beginning, is my trusted advisor, and has, my complete confidence, signed Donald Trump." It's interesting, but, you know, we can just look at the firing of Katie Zachariah and maybe pull some signs out of it that indicate that maybe the relationship isn't as strong as Donald Trump is making it out to be. You know, when you're hiring a new press secretary, normally, you consult some other high-ranking advisors, especially your chief of staff. But according to the Daily Mail and others, Donald Trump kind of ignored everybody. Caroline Levitt tried to have a say, you know, before Katie Zachariah, before Katie Zachariah was hired. Susie Wiles tried to have a say. But in reality, Donald Trump bypassed her, didn't take her advice, didn't really listen to her, didn't consult her about this hiring, which kind of shows that maybe this team is not as, you know, uniform as Donald Trump would like you to believe. It's just little things like that that I think indicate maybe some drama, some beef behind the scenes. And according to one of Donald Trump's longest biographers, Michael Wolff, Donald Trump's behavior indicates that she is next on the chopping block. Donald Trump's chatter with his allies about White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles signals that his ice maiden is on the outs. That's what author Michael Wolff is saying on his podcast. Host Joanna Coles noted how Wolff had predicted that Wiles, quote, "wouldn't last past November" and asked if he had heard anything about how she's doing. He said, "It doesn't matter how she's doing. It's a matter of what is Trump's impression at the moment, what's in his head about Susie Wiles." The president's biographer said he was the first person to paint that picture that Trump asks his friends about others and his employee before giving them the ax. Quote, "He's actually even done this to me," Wolff said, explaining that Trump once polled him about his thoughts on the president's former chief strategist, Steve Bannon. He continued, "Everybody knows that. The asking around about is the kiss of death. That means you have to say, 'Well, you know, I think there's some issues there, Mr. President,' and then he will tell you, 'Yeah, I absolutely agree,' then he will go on." It's interesting to hear, like, how Donald Trump's mind works with this stuff, from somebody who's kind of seen it head-on. You know, Michael Wolff is a writer, a biographer, certainly not a Republican by any stretch of the imagination, but he has seen some of the worst parts of Donald Trump, even this process, you know, him polling people on who he should keep in his administration, who he shouldn't, and I think he's right that this is a pretty good indicator of where Susie Wiles actually is, despite his statement to Politico calling it fake news or saying to the media that he has full confidence in her. I really just don't believe that. And because of all of this, because of this chatter, there's now a power struggle in the wild, wild West Wing. That's what Trump advisors, senior Trump officials are saying. There's a power struggle taking place behind the scenes. Check this out. A vicious internal power struggle has erupted inside the White House where chaotic factional infighting and presidential meltdowns have turned the West Wing into what one Trump ally called the, quote, "new wild, wild West." The brewing civil war reached a crescendo on Thursday morning when Donald Trump's favorite aide, Natalie Harp, handed the 80-year-old president a printed copy of a bombshell Politico report, the one that we just read and talked about, detailing how he has been making secret calls to close allies, asking who he should hire to replace Susie Wiles. The printed briefing sparked a total meltdown as Trump blew up, quote, "blew up" over the coverage, sending a panicking White House into overdrive as Wiles and her allies frantically burned up phones around town in an effort to project stability. But I don't really think anybody thinks that this administration is stable. I mean, they just fired their press secretary after five days. The chaos comes as White House aides who had previously kept clashes muted brace for widespread midterm election losses and massive internal upheaval. So these midterm polls and the midterm projections that Donald Trump pretends are not true and says it's fake polls, it's just the liberal media, has actually sent his administration into a spiral. Everybody is trying to preserve their job. They kind of see what's coming. And normally after a beatdown in an election, Donald Trump has fired a bunch of people in the past. He wants to put blame on someone else and say, "Hey, you know, it couldn't be my fault. It couldn't be my bad policy. It has to be this person's fault or this person's fault." And now everybody behind the scenes are turning on each other, believing that Wiles might step down or be ousted after next month's elections. An ambitious pack of Trump aides, including Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, top housing official Bill Pulte, and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin, have begun openly angling to swipe her job. This is what I was talking about. They will all turn on each other at the drop of a hat because it's full of grifters and scammers and bad people. You know, they don't actually want to work to make the government and the country better. They're trying to like, you know, pad their resume. It's so disgusting, man. The jockeying kicked off in earnest after Trump unilaterally reached out to Katie Zachariah about joining the administration as the press secretary, severely undermining her authority. So that's really what sent the sharks in the water swimming. You know, Donald Trump undermining his own Chief of Staff for a major hiring decision is not a good sign for, you know, Susie Wiles and members of the administration. And the really bad news for Donald Trump is that there might have to be a couple of different people fired. I mean, there's a lot of people fired. a lot of people doing some shady things behind the scenes. You have Katie Zachariah, you have Kimberly Guilfoyle, you also have James Blair and Chris LaCivita. Trump has bristled at recent reports showing several longtime advisors are profiting from foreign consulting businesses, including top Wiles allies James Blair and Chris LaCivita. Katie Wiles, the chief of staff's daughter, was reported to be working for a firm representing Republika Spryshka, the pro-Russian semi-autonomous Bosnian Serb territory for which Blair and LaCivita also did work. Trump was not previously aware of Katie Wiles' work. So it just seems like the entire Susie Wiles orbit, not just her, but her proteges, you know, James Blair, Chris LaCivita. By the way, Chris LaCivita tweeted out that he was sending the FBI and the Secret Service to my house one time. Fun fact, that's a fun fact of the day about me and Chris LaCivita. He's a total loser, by the way, total loser. That's why he doesn't work in the administration. Even Donald Trump doesn't. He's a total loser. But those are these people. It kind of seems like the entire Susie Wiles bubble is bursting in real time and we're watching it. So anyway, I just wanted to break down this story for you and all of the beef that is taking place behind the scenes in the Trump administration. They really do try to project stability and make it seem like everything is working seamlessly and the White House is great and everybody loves each other. Couldn't be further from the truth. So I will leave it there. Thank you so much for watching. Please make sure to subscribe down below, drop a like on the video, comment. Let me know what you think about this story. everything we just talked about. Have an amazing rest of your day and we will talk soon.