“If he died suddenly and in office, that might well transform Donald Trump into an iconic historic figure,” Michael Wolff tells the Inside Trump’s Head podcast. President Donald Trump was visibly dozing off during Tuesday’s funeral. It’s like when you remove any dominant figure, dictators, I think people breathe a big sigh of relief,” Wolff said. Coles theorized that Vice President JD Vance, who would assume the presidency, is “thinking a lot about Donald Trump’s death.” Michael Wolff argued that “the quiet will be extraordinary” in a world without Trump.