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Trump's biographer exposes Trump as 'totally alone figure' with no intimate life: report

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June 17, 2026

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Trump's biographer exposes Trump as 'totally alone figure' with no intimate life: report

President Donald Trump's biographer detailed the truth about the president's sex life, The Daily Beast reported on Wednesday.During a conversation on the Inside Trump’s Head podcast on Tuesday night, author Michael Wolff described how Trump's Playboy life has long ended and he is now more isolated. And although the 80-year-old president is married, the biographer alleged he hasn’t gotten any action in years—especially from his wife.He is in this White House this totally alone figure without any kind of basic warmth, Wolff told podcast co-host Joanna Coles. Even the people who are the familiar faces are familiar only on a professional basis.I mean, in the first administration, he had Hope Hicks, who really tended to him. And now he has this woman, Natalie Harp,” Wolff said. But he functions essentially like an old-time monarch, you know. Who has married someone for political reasons as was done. And there was really no pretense of a domestic life, and then he’s tended to by factotums.Hicks served in Trump's first campaign and was White House Communications Director during his first administration, Wolff said. She later testified against him and for the prosecution in the hush money criminal trial in 2024. In her testimony, she described how Trump wanted to cover up his affairs with adult performer Stormy Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal.Harp has been one of Trump's closest aides in his second administration and there are questions about the nature of their relationship, Wolff explained.Natalie Harp, you know, has become—as Hope Hicks was—this kind of curious person in his life. We don’t really understand that relationship, Wolff said. She appears to be hopelessly in love with him, and we’ve seen a series of cringeworthy letters that she has written him.Trump apparently has separate sleeping arrangements from his wife, Melania — both at the White House and at their Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida.“But, you know I think that he’s generally regarded among his staff as post-sexual,” Wolff said. “There is, at least, nobody who is rushing to say, nor whispering, that he has a relationship—a sexual relationship—with anyone.”White House Communications Director Steven Cheung responded to The Beast with the following statement: “Michael Wolff is a lying sack of s--- and has been proven to be a fraud. He routinely fabricates stories originating from his sick and warped imagination, only possible because he has a severe and debilitating case of Trump Derangement Syndrome that has rotted his peanut-sized brain, Cheung said in the statement.

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