{"podcast":{"title":"The Daily Beast Podcast","slug":"the-daily-beast-podcast-502008","podcast_index_feed_id":502008,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/QCD5580850161","website_url":"https://www.thedailybeast.com/","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/e9536744-fc5a-11f0-abb7-e71364eadeec/image/a2b139f730a0bd44f2765ced1fd8e7ed.jpeg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"The Daily Beast","episode_count":1204,"summary":"The Daily Beast Podcast is as wildly exciting, energizing, and entertaining as the topics it covers. Hosted by Joanna Coles, Chief Content Officer of the Daily Beast, each episode delivers the people and politics coverage you need—straight from the Daily Beast newsroom. Conversations have featured voices like John Oliver, Mary Trump, and Governor Gavin Newsom, alongside sharp, incisive takes each week from show regular David Rothkopf. It’s like the best dinner party you’ve ever been to, just without the food. New episodes every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday; early drops on YouTube. If you’re not already a subscriber to The Daily Beast, it’s easy! Just go to thedailybeast.com to sign up.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-20T08:17:10.333456+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-daily-beast-podcast-502008"},"episode":{"title":"This Is Why Trump’s Dark Fantasies are Crumbling","slug":"this-is-why-trump-s-dark-fantasies-are-crumbling","published_at":"2026-06-02T04:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-daily-beast-podcast-502008/this-is-why-trump-s-dark-fantasies-are-crumbling","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-daily-beast-podcast-502008","url":"https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/433/claritaspod.com/measure/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD6272143999.mp3","audio_url":"https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/433/claritaspod.com/measure/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD6272143999.mp3","summary":"David Rothkopf and Joanna Coles dive into a week of chaos surrounding Donald Trump, from a weekend barrage of Truth Social posts and increasingly bizarre self-mythologizing to mounting questions about his health, judgment, and grip on reality. Rothkopf argues that Trump’s latest behavior reveals a president trapped by crises of his own making—from Iran and a crumbling political coalition to what he describes as a dangerous fantasy world where everyone else plays the victim. The pair also unpack the growing signs of Republican unease, the political fallout heading into the midterms, and why a larger generational reckoning may be reshaping global leadership. As the conversation builds toward a chilling conclusion about power, aging, and the risks of desperation, Rothkopf delivers one of his starkest assessments yet of the man occupying the Oval Office. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices","meta_description":"David Rothkopf and Joanna Coles dive into a week of chaos surrounding Donald Trump, from a weekend barrage of Truth Social posts and increasingly bizarre…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3017,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-daily-beast-podcast-502008/episodes/this-is-why-trump-s-dark-fantasies-are-crumbling/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-daily-beast-podcast-502008/this-is-why-trump-s-dark-fantasies-are-crumbling.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}