Are we sure Regina George isn’t our president?

On Wednesday, Axios obtained and published an excerpt from the upcoming book “Regime Change,” by New York Times journalists Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan about President Donald Trump’s second term — and the tidbit they published comes off like a scene from “Mean Girls.”

The excerpt focuses on a private dinner party Trump threw for billionaires — including media mogul Rupert Murdoch — in October 2025.

The book notes that although Trump sued Murdoch and his newspaper, the Wall Street Journal, in June 2025 over an article about the president’s former friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, many parts of the Murdoch empire “were still on friendly terms with the Trump team.”

Trump was so cool with Murdoch being there that the tycoon sat next to Trump at the head of the table, with Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio seated nearby.

This is when Trump, who the book notes was “in an avuncular mood,” decided to stir the pot by asking Murdoch who he liked better: Vance or Rubio … mind you, he asked this while the two men were “sitting awkwardly at the table.”

The book notes, per Axios, that the president plays this little game “often” in order to fan the flames around which of the two men will run for the 2028 presidential election.

“They’re both great,” Trump said, before asking Murdoch: “What do you think of JD?”

Axios’ description of the rest of the conversation went as follows:

“Murdoch: ‘Well ... I think JD has the potential to be great.’

Trump: ‘And what do you think of Marco?’ Murdoch answered immediately: ‘Marco is brilliant.’

‘The other guests would talk privately about the moment for weeks after the dinner,’ Haberman and Swan write.”

Reportedly, Trump isn’t thrilled about “Regime Change,” according to another Axios report published earlier this week.

Given that the book will be released next week, Haberman and Swan have published articles drawn from their reporting for the book, which include verbatim quotes from Situation Room meetings about the Iran war and the handling of the Epstein files’ fallout.

“We’re afraid some of our most sensitive conversations were being recorded,” an unnamed Trump administration source told Axios. “And we have no idea which ones.”

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