President Trump once ordered former
White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus to exterminate a fly during a
White House meeting, according to a report Friday.
Citing a source familiar with the incident, The Washington Post
reported that the commander in chief became distracted by a "buzzing"
fly during an Oval Office meeting and summoned Priebus to kill the pesky
insect.
The relationship between Priebus and Trump
has had its ups and downs. Back in 2016, Priebus suggested
Trump
withdraw from the presidential race after the emergence of the now
infamous Access Hollywood tape of Trump talking about groping women, The New York Times reported.
"No
woman should ever be described in these terms or talked about in this
manner," Priebus, chair of the Republican National Committee, said at
the time. "Ever."
That was something Trump had trouble forgetting and Priebus' loyalty was often questioned, according to the Post. Citing White House officials, the Post reported that the call to remove Priebus from his position "heightened over the past 10 days or so."
“It reached a fever pitch of the president complaining
about Reince to all of us,” an unnamed senior White House official told
the Post. “If we heard it once, we heard it 20 times in the
last week — this erosion of confidence. The word was 'weak' — 'weak,'
'weak,' 'weak.' 'Can’t get it done.'”
Speculation
on Priebus' job security spiked even further with Trump’s decision to
hire Anthony Scaramucci as his new communications director, who
proceeded to wage a war of words against Priebus, culminating in a
profane screed published by The New Yorker.
Announcing
the decision to replace Priebus on Twitter, Trump named John Kelly as
the new White House chief of staff. Kelly will start on the job
Monday, White House spokesperson Sarah Huckabee Sanders said.
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