Scoop: Trump dressed down Mulvaney in front of congressional leaders

[Roland99]

https://www.axios.com/donald-trump-mick-mulvaney-government-shutdown-meeting-7d84ea72-5aaf-45e0-a707-5f955836070e.html

Behind the scenes: The encounter came near the end of a meeting in the White House Situation Room on Jan. 4, these sources said. Trump had spent the meeting restating his demand for $5.7 billion for his wall. (Vice President Pence, at Trump's behest, had previously asked the Democrats for just $2.5 billion.)

Mulvaney inserted himself into the conversation and tried to negotiate a compromise sum of money, according to the sources in the room. Mulvaney said "that if Dems weren't OK with $5.7 [billion] and the president wasn't OK with $1.3 [the Democratic offer] ... he was trying to say we should find a middle ground," one of the sources said, paraphrasing Mulvaney's remarks.

"Trump cut him off ... 'You just fucked it all up, Mick,'" the source recalled Trump saying. "It was kind of weird."

Another source who was in the room confirmed the account. That source said their impression was that Trump was irritated at Mulvaney's negotiating style. "As a negotiator, Trump was resetting," the source said. "Mick was not reading the room or the president."

[Laurian]

1. He chooses to work for that creep.

No sympathy from me.

[JI7]

2. fuck Mulvaney and everyone else that works for him

and fuck trump himself also.

[badhair77]

3. That university presidency is probably looking pretty good by now.

As Rick Wilson says, “Everything trump touches dies.”

[EndGOPPropaganda]

4. No student should go and no parent should pay for a university that Mulvaney leads. nm

[aikoaiko]

5. Mulvaney had better get used to that.

He's in crazyworld now

[UpInArms]

6. I hope he gets a job cleaning sewers

Alone and far below street level

[jcgoldie]

7. Trump saw the tape of Mulvaney calling him a terrible human being...

... Does anyone think that vain narcissistic jerk will just let that go? Look what happened to his relationship with Tillerson after it came out that Tillerson called him a fucking moron.

[Gothmog]

8. I do not feel sorry for anyone stupid enough to work for trump

Link to tweet

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