Many of us already know that former president Donald Trump doesn’t handle isolation particularly well, but according to New York Magazine’s Olivia Nuzzi, one of Trump’s former White House advisers said he really “cracked” while in isolation at the White House at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Nuzzi was appearing on CNN This Morning when she said this, sharing even more revelations about Trump following the publication of her story, Raw Story reports. Trump is in a similar situation now, pretty much doing little more than hanging around Mar-a-Lago even as he announced his 2024 presidential bid, which wasn’t exactly well-received.

In her report, released over Christmas, Nuzzi quotes one Trump familiar as complaining “He just goes, plays golf, comes back, and f*cks off. He has retreated to the golf course and to Mar-a-Lago. His world has gotten much smaller. His world is so, so small.’

I’m sure it didn’t help that Trump created enmity between so many people while president. He brought out elements of racism, classism, science denial, and climate change denial while president. And people who are capable of thinking critically aren’t going to forget that any time soon.

But one thing Nuzzi also pointed out, is that all this isolation may make Trump more dangerous, and that’s when she noted one of the former president’s advisers saw something similar during the pandemic.

“If he’s lost his mojo in some way, I don’t know,” Nuzzi said about his stalled campaign. She added “I think Donald Trump, when he’s cooped up, when he’s got his wings clipped, historically is kind of a dangerous creature who is prone to listening to even crazier ideas than normal and doing even crazier things.”

“One former White House official talking in this piece about before the insurrection, before he official lost the campaign in 2020, already he had become this sort of terrifying figure who in his COVID isolation in the White House — kind of locked away and kept from having contact with regular Americans or just with more normal people who might be around him in a busy place like the West Wing — he really had cracked and began to lose his mind and this person began to move further and further away from him,” Nuzzi said.

If I haven’t said it before, I’ll say it now: Trump is a malignant narcissist. Along with the fact that he’s now in isolation, he can’t handle the fact that his importance is waning.

Toward the end of the conversation, Nuzzi discussed Trump’s seeming pause on holding rallies.

“He isn’t all that busy and the midterms are over. There isn’t a lot of justification for a MAGA rally at this point — he’s stuck there. He’s at Mar-a-Lago and playing golf and people are coming to see him. I don’t think he really knows what to do with himself in this sort of lame-duck period as the only candidate and he’s running against himself.”

Here’s a clip of the interview below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GCGzGXj8AQ