The Truth About Trump’s Miserable Mar-a-Lago Christmas: Wolff
President Donald Trump did not have a happy Christmas.
The 79-year-old president had dinner at Mar-a-Lago on Christmas Eve with his wife, First Lady Melania Trump, and his father-in-law, Viktor Knavs. He then fired off nearly 150 Truth Social posts filled with complaints and angry rumors instead of spending time with friends and family.
Photo illustration of a sad Donald Trump and Christmas tree background for the Inside Trump’s Head podcast. / Photo Illustration: Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty
Trump biographer Michael Wolff joins Joanna Coles of the Daily Beast. Inside Trump’s Head podcast and roasted the president’s joyless holiday.
“I assume he’s sitting in bed and going crazy,” Wolff joked.
For Coles, Wolff, and many social media viewers, Trump’s Christmas Eve looked lonely and miserable, as Melania talked excitedly to her father while Trump stared blankly.
“What was notable about the videos people posted at the event was how animated our First Lady looked with her father, when we weren’t used to seeing him active from a distance,” Coles said.
“And just to set the scene, they’re on the Mar-a-Lago terrace. I imagine it was about 75 degrees,” Wolff added. “It’s full of other members. We’re actually in high season right now. And we can only guess why these people aren’t spending Christmas Eve with their families.”
Wolff noted how isolated Trump seemed from the festivities around him.
“Donald Trump is where he always is: in the middle of the table, he has a red rope around his table. It’s a little confusing why he has this red rope around his table because the table is right in the middle of everything,” he said.
Trump did his best to look engaged during his grueling Christmas dinner with his father-in-law at Mar-a-Lago. /Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images
“Maybe it’s like the brim of Melania’s hat,” Coles said. “It gives him the kind of environment where you don’t have to sit back.”
“Everyone on the terrace comes up to him. It’s not like he’s saying, ‘Stay away.’ In fact, the rope means, ‘Come a little bit closer,'” Wolff added.
Although Wolff and Coles painted a bleak picture of Trump’s sad Christmas Eve, their view of Christmas morning was even sadder.
“I think he was watching TV, wasn’t he?” thought Coles. “He wakes up and the TV shows are still running because he didn’t turn them off the night before unless someone broke into his room and turned them off for him.”
While Melania chatted excitedly with her father, Trump looked aimlessly around the room, isolated from the rest of the party. /Thoss Katopodis /Getty Images
“At the White House or Mar-a-Lago,” Wolff added. “And I think they’re both probably very, very similar. I think he basically sets these things up to look the same and does the same thing.”
Wolff suggested that Trump, upset about being alone on Christmas Eve and spending the entire night attacking Truth Social, likely spent Christmas morning begging people to talk about him.
Trump and Melania answered children’s questions about Christmas by phone before their Mar-a-Lago dinner. /Thoss Katopodis /Getty Images
“What is the most important thing for Donald Trump? What is his lifeline?” he asked Wolff. “Calls. He makes calls. He answers calls and makes calls. You know, he gets on the phone and says, ‘What’s going on? How is it played?’ he says. All of this is an invitation to talk about it, of course.”
Asked to comment on Trump’s Christmas activities, the White House ignored the question and repeated a comment it has made many times before. Inside Trump’s Head sections.
The comment, attributed to White House Communications Director Steven Cheung, reads: “Michael Wolff is a lying sack and has been proven a fraud. He regularly spins out stories from his sick and distorted imagination, which is only possible because he has a severe and debilitating case of Trump Derangement Syndrome, which is rotting his peanut-sized brain.”
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