War (huh, yeah), what is it good for? (Trump’s ego)

By BRUCE LOWITT

Partial transcript of a meeting among members of the Trump Administration and select Congressional Republicans during a private party at Mar-a-Lago hosted by Deputy White House Chief of Staff, aspiring antisemite and confirmed xenophobe Stephen Miller, celebrating the 103^rd anniversary of the Rosewood Massacre, when the Black town of Rosewood, Florida, was destroyed by fire in a race riot and as many as 150 residents were lynched or otherwise murdered. The recording was provided by a source who requested anonymity because he said he plans to resign in January as the FBI’s deputy director.

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-Slimeball: “I never said I hate people who protest because they hate America. What I said is I hate Americans.”
President Donald Trump: “Oh, so you’re actually aligned with most of my policies?”
Johnson: “Yeah. Well, except for your financial planning.”
Trump: “Meaning …?”
Johnson: “Meaning you and your kids are making billions with your fucking grifts and you’re not cutting us in for our fair share of …”
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent: “Oh, please. C’mon, Mike. Every bill you make sure doesn’t get to the floor for a vote, and that’s every fucking one of them, you get a million bucks from some billionaire to maintain the status quo. Or is it the quo status?”
Miller: “Guys, guys. We’re getting off track. We have to figure out how to end these protests before they really get out of hand. I mean, it’s up to ten million people marching and …”
Vice President JD Vance: “Shoot ’em.”
White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles: “Wait. What?”
Vance: “Shoot ’em all. I mean, we’ve got all the big guns, right?”
Wiles: “You can’t just indiscriminately shoot ten million people.”
Vance: “Okay, then bomb them. It’s working against Venezuela.”
Wiles: “Holy fuck, JD!”
Miller: Hold on. I think JD’s got something there. We’re bombing the Venezuelans, we’ve bombed Iran and we’re going to do it again, right Dona- … Mr. President? Why stop there?”
Trump: “I …”
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth: “Canada? Mexico?”
Trump: “I …”
Vance: “Taiwan? Ooh, ooh. How about Lichtenstein? I mean, where the fuck is that anyway?”
Miller: “I like the way you think, JD, but I’m thinking more, um, local.”
Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem: “California? Chicago?”
Miller: “Well, that’d be fun, but if ‘vengeance is mine,’ a phrase the president so brilliantly coined, I say we go with what Shakespeare wrote in Henry the Sixth: ‘The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.’”
Attorney General Pam Bondi: “Uh, I don’t …”
Trump: “Not you, sweetheart. I mean, you barely passed the LSAT. But …”
Miller: “Exactly. We start with Jenner and Block, who fought our executive …”
Trump: “Our?”
Miller: “Sorry. The president’s executive orders. And Perkins Coie, who sued us over something and won. And Quinn Emanuel. Those bastards represented Harvard against us. And like five hundred other law firms, although most of them were just pussy shysters.”|
Secretary of State Marco Rubio: “Won’t they just take us to court to stop …”
Miller: “Marco …”
Hegseth: “Polo!”
Miller: “Shut up, Pete – and stop drawing on those maps. Hey, where did you get those crayons?”
Rubio: “You were saying …?”
Miller: “We’ll go after the judges, too. James Boasberg, who said our … I mean the president’s executive order was a ‘personal vendetta,’ and all the judges who tried to stop our deportations, and we’ll blow up their asses.”
Trump: “And Macy’s, and Nordstrom, and the Home Shopping Network, and Neiman Marcus, and Wayfair, ’cause they won’t sell my shit any- … I mean, won’t carry Ivanka’s beautiful clothes and my stylish suits and our fine Trump Home …”
FBI Director Kash Patel: “Okay, Mr. President, we get the point. But we can’t just blow up stores all around the country because …”
Trump: “Hey, nice suit, Kash. Who made it?”
Patel: “Uh, Ralph Lauren. Why?”
Trump: “That’s Biden’s brand. You’re fired, Kash. … Now where was I? Oh, yeah. And ABC, CBS, and NBC. And PBS, and NPR. And the failing New York Times, and the Washington Post. And …”
Rubio: “Uh, Mr. President, let’s not go overboard …”
Trump: “Overboard. That reminds me – everyone who’s swimming in the Caribbean, whether they have a boat or not. And every boat in Venezuela. Motor boats, sailboats, houseboats, toy boats, tankers, battleships – I really loved playing that game – and cruisers and ports, and while we’re at it, factories and farms and …”
Rubio: “But don’t you want to, um, give me Venezuela after we’ve gotten rid of Maduro?”
Trump: “Well, sure. Whatever’s left of it. But Marco …”
Hegseth: “Polo!”
Many voices: “Shut up, Pete!”

Recording ends