As Reports Pile Up, Trump's Anger Over Price's Use Of Private Planes Grows

[DonViejo]

By CAITLIN MACNEAL Published SEPTEMBER 29, 2017 11:24 AM

President Donald Trump has made it clear, both in private and to reporters, that he is not pleased Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price spent more than $400,000 of taxpayer money to travel around the country on private jets.

The President told reporters this week that he is “not happy” with Price, and when asked if he would fire the health secretary, Trump replied, “We’ll see.” Behind closed doors, Trump has fumed for days; according to several reports out Thursday, the possibility of firing Price has been floated, but Trump hasn’t indicated he will actually dismiss the health secretary.

Since the reports on Trump’s anger came out, Politico revealed that Price and his aides also spent more than $500,000 to travel abroad on military planes.

Trump’s anger with Price has grown in the last day or so, according to a New York Times report out Thursday night. The President told a person close to him that he reserves the right to fire Price, and that the health secretary’s pledge to pay for his seats on the planes would not necessarily save him his job, according to the Times.

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[Sneederbunk]

1. 45 does not like people who get caught.

[Wellstone ruled]

2. Smoke Screen!!!!!

[ProudLib72]

3. Yet he's fine with himself spending tax payer money

on dozens of golf vacations? If it's good enough for him it should be good enough for everyone else.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. Pot, there's a call for you from Kettle on line 1...

SCROTUS is pissed off because Price has been swanning about in chartered jets on the taxpayers' dime but doesn't seem to think it's such a BFD for him to hoist his fat orange ass onto a taxpayer-owned B-747 just to pop down to Merde-a-Lago for a little golf.

Price was just using Trump as his role model.

[redstatebluegirl]

5. What about the crazy EPA chief Pruitt? He is back here in Oklahoma all the time

meeting with his oil and gas buddies to see what to kill next.

[meadowlark5]

6. Trump wouldn't care one bit, if it hadn't gotten out

Trump, his android children and his whole administration look at tax paid stuff as "perks of the job". As long as no one knows and it's not reported, they are perfectly fine and probably feel they deserve, all the freebies tax payer dollars provide to them.

[gratuitous]

7. Exactly

It's not like Price took all these flights just this week. Trump's just mad about it now because the story is coming out now.

[LiberalBrooke]

8. It's all about headlines.

He is really not angry about the money, it is simply that Price has garnered more attention than don the con. That's his unbearable sin.

[tblue37]

11. It is because by being exposed Price makes the Trump administration--and Trump himself--

look bad.

[The_Casual_Observer]

9. trumps whitehouse is completely out of control. Who authorized shit like that?

Who signed off on those kind of purchase orders? This should have never happened.

[MineralMan]

10. Meanwhile, Trump flies off to play golf every week on AF1

Hypocrite!

[Thrill]

12. Anger because he got caught

[C_U_L8R]

13. It's not just Price...

this corruption includes Trump, his cabinet and his whole stinking family