Ridicule, loneliness and a hidden transcript: Michael Wolff's list of Trump's fears
Episode 173 of Inside Trump's Head runs from the president's dread of being seen as unintelligent to whether he is afraid of death, and its comment section filled up in ten hours.
The Daily BeastStory of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 209,189 views a day, 31 times a normal first day on this channel (6,840).
These Are the 10 Things that Terrify Trump Most | Inside Trump's Head
A new video on The Daily Beast's channel usually closes its first day short of 7,000 views. Episode 173 of Inside Trump's Head, posted Saturday, went past 120,000 in its first ten hours.
The idea is in the title: "These Are the 10 Things that Terrify Trump Most." Michael Wolff, who has written several books on Trump starting with Fire and Fury, sits with Joanna Coles and works through the fears he believes drive the president. The list runs from rejection, ridicule and being left alone to losing the spotlight, and the final chapter asks outright whether Trump is afraid of death. The longest stretch is about intelligence. The description says Wolff recounts the efforts he says were made to keep Trump's academic records out of view, and explains why he thinks ordinary conversation leaves the president exposed. Wolff also offers a prediction about how Trump could keep his power after leaving office.
The comments had already passed a usual full first day's worth within those ten hours. Many of them stay on that intelligence chapter. Viewers bring up how often Trump talks about the cognitive tests he has taken, and one well-liked thread points out that a learning disability and a lack of intelligence are not the same thing.
It was not the only long episode running ahead. The Daily Beast Podcast, in which Coles and executive editor Hugh Dougherty take on Margo Martin and Natalie Harp, a motorcade doing nearly 100 mph through Texas and Grok's place in foreign policy, also reached well past 100,000 in its first day. The short clips cut from both shows mostly stayed in the thousands.
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- Channel
- The Daily Beast
- Subscribers
- 731,000 ▲ 2,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 3,043,267
- Channel views, pace per day
- 272,458 (on a normal day: 506,803)
- Video published
- October 3, 2026
- Video views so far
- 127,826 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 209,189
The numbers
Two full-length episodes posted the same day both went far past what a new video here usually does on its first day.
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