'You look foolish': Biographer says Trump has no way of distracting from weaknesses

Donald Trump has ran out of ways to distract from the shortcomings of his administration, a political biographer has claimed.

Michael Wolff, the Fire and Fury biographer, believes the president no longer has anything he can distract the public with and is now looking embarrassing as he seeks out wilder and wilder statements. Speaking on The Daily Beast's Inside Trump's Head podcast, Wolff said Trump's interest was based solely on getting attention.

Wolff said, "If you lose Donald Trump's interest, you lose Donald Trump. He's not interested in policy. He's not interested in bureaucracy." The president may now be spiralling as he attempts to regain control after failing to secure Greenland for the US.

The biographer said, "Trump’s virtue to voters is that no matter what happened, he looked strong. Now he cannot take Greenland, he cannot take Canada, he cannot do any of the things that he has huffed and puffed and said he will do."

Though Trump may have managed to threaten his way through the Greenland situation, a recent ICE shooting in Minneapolis needs more nuance, Wolff says.

"This has now become a very, very complicated situation," the biographer said. "He cannot threaten his way out of it. He can’t seem to generate a new headline to get himself out of it. The headlines that are generated are bad headlines."

Part of the problem may be, Wolff says, how disinterested Trump is in actually being president. Wolff claimed, "The work of the presidency does not inspire him. If it becomes complicated, that has to be pushed to the side.

"There’s only so many times you can sue people for $5 billion or $20 billion. You look foolish. We’re in the middle of a pivotal campaign. Conceivably one of the most important campaigns ever waged. This is potentially, in November, the end of Donald Trump."