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The Daily Beast Podcast

White House Insider: Trump Wanted to 'Maim' Immigrants

The Daily Beast Podcast

The Daily Beast

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4.68.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

It’s the first night of the Republican National Convention and Rick Wilson and Molly Jong-Fast are joined by Miles Taylor, the former chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security, who shares eye-watering tales of what Trump is really like when the cameras are switched off. You thought what happened on screen on night one of the convention was crazy? It’s nothing compared to Trump behind the scenes, where national security officials couldn’t get through a meeting “without him doing 20 tangents, becoming irascible, turning red in the face, demanding a diet Coke, spewing spit,” Taylor explained. “Literally out of goddamn nowhere, he'd be like, ‘You know, who’s just my favorite guy? The MyPillow guy. Do any of you have those pillows?’ When it came to the issue of the border wall, Trump would be dreaming up “sickening” medieval plots “to pierce the flesh” of migrants, rip all the families apart, “maim,” and gas them. “This was a man with no humanity whatsoever,” Taylor says. “He says, we got to do this, this, this, and this, all of which are probably impossible, illegal unethical,” Taylor recalls, but he was writing them down as the president spoke. “And he looks over me and he goes, you fucking taken notes?” All that, and there was still time for the “Fuck that guy” segment, and Jerry Falwell Jr. won a hotly contested race after it was claimed that the anti-LGBT preacher had encouraged the pool boy to have sex with his wife while he watched from the corner of the room. “I would like to salute you for providing the most meta and self-referential ‘Fuck that guy’ ever,” Rick says to Molly. “Because Jerry Falwell said to his wife, ‘Fuck that guy.’” Want more? Become a Beast Inside member to enjoy a limited-run series of bonus interviews from The New Abnormal. Guests include Cory Booker, Jim Acosta, and more. Head to newabnormal.thedailybeast.com to join now. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi folks, it's Rick Wilson and welcome to the Daily Beasts, the new abnormal.

0:04.6

Hi, I'm Molly Zhangfast, a left-wing pundit and editor at large at the Daily Beast.

0:09.7

I'm also an editor at the Daily Beast, a former Republican political strategist, best-selling

0:14.1

author and full-time troublemaker.

0:16.1

We're here to have fun, sharp conversations with some of the smartest people in media,

0:19.9

politics, business and science that help make what's happening in the country and the world

0:24.9

clear.

0:25.9

Try to keep Rick to the minimum number of F-bombs and try to keep our kids, pets and other

0:32.0

wildlife sounds from invading a respite.

0:36.6

Ladies and gentlemen, Americans from all walks of life in all corners of this great nation,

0:40.2

welcome to the Daily Beasts, the new abnormal, very special.

0:44.2

Fuck that guy week.

0:45.7

Oh yes, it's the beginning.

0:46.9

It's the first day of the Republican National Convention and we are here sitting in our virtual

0:51.6

studio, spread out across the great fruited plane of America with my co-host Molly Zhangfast,

0:56.9

our brilliant editor Jesse Cannon and of course the masterful Miles Taylor, the former

1:02.2

and now very much ex chief of staff to the Department of Homeland Security, an ex-Trump

1:08.2

administration official who has gone into the full side of the light and has joined us

1:13.2

not only in rejecting Donald Trump, but here this evening, Miles, welcome to the show.

1:17.8

Rick, I'm so glad to be here and actually I've never been so flattered to be called someone's

1:23.3

ex than I would say.

1:25.7

And seriously, if I get to be counted among his exes for the rest of my life, it'll

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