UPDATED: Trump on whether he'll fire Price: 'We'll see'

[DonViejo]

Last edited Wed Sep 27, 2017, 02:04 PM - Edit history (1)

Source: Politico


By LOUIS NELSON 09/27/2017 01:12 PM EDT

President Donald Trump on Wednesday expressed his sharp displeasure with Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price over his use of expensive private jets, and said "we'll see" when asked by reporters if he would fire Price.

“I was looking into it and I will look into it. And I will tell you personally, I'm not happy about it,” Trump said in a brief exchange with reporters. “I am not happy about it. I'm going to look at it. I am not happy about it, and I let him know it.”

POLITICO revealed that Price has flown 26 times on private aircraft since last May at a cost of hundreds of thousands of dollars, a break with the practice of his predecessors who generally took commercial flights.

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Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/27/trump-price-243211

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UPDATE

Trump: ‘Not happy’ about HHS Secretary Tom Price’s taxpayer-funded travel on private jets

By David Nakamura September 27 at 1:28 PM

President Trump said Wednesday that he is “not happy” about revelations Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price took numerous flights on government-funded private jets for work and personal trips.

Responding to questions from reporters, Trump said he is “looking into” the situation and “personally, I'm not happy about it, and I let him know it.”

Price has been under fire for using public funds to pay for private flights more than two dozen times, according to Politico, mixing in some personal travel with business trips.

The president appeared to suggest that he would considering firing Price, saying, “I'm going to look at it” after a reporter asked about Price's future, though it was not completely clear if Trump was answering that direct question.

Link to tweet

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/09/27/trump-not-happy-about-hhs-secretary-tom-prices-travel-on-private-jets/?utm_term=.a4fe8bb89a69&wpisrc=al_alert-politics&wpmk=1

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Not happy about it!

I bet he isnt, if ANYBODY is gonna use private jets, by god, it will be HIM

It oughta make you want to FUCKING PUKE to think this vile piece of SHIT gets to use Air Force One

[Hoyt]

2. If Trump replaces Price, will the next Deplorable be any better?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. Nope, no better. The pool he's selecting from keeps getting smaller as he gets more toxic. . . nt

[karynnj]

11. It's hard to get worse than Price in terms of corruption AND the new one would have to be confirmed

In addition, there does not seem a huge number of people wanting to join Trump's cabinet .. including in prime positions.

[They_Live]

15. Maybe Meatloaf?

just maybe.

[Turbineguy]

3. If Price gets fired

it will be for the unpardonable sin of getting caught. He should have covered his tracks better.

[Lindsay]

4. Exactly this. n/t

[PearliePoo2]

5. One at a time the Cabinet and W.H. staff all get the knife! What did they expect would happen?

Any rat-bastards that aligned themselves with this traitorous fuck deserve the tire tracks on their backs.
Too bad...so sad.
Oh, and enjoy your horrendous legal bills, you lying schmucks.

[C Moon]

6. I wonder if he's going to look at it, and if he's not happy about it?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. Fire them all and then fire yourself. Or start with yourself. . . . nt

[kimbutgar]

9. Ha ha Price gave up his protected safe congressional seat to get stabbed in back by twitler!

Make it so!

[OliverQ]

10. Would be so awesome if he get fired. But i doubt it will happen.

[karynnj]

13. It depends how bad his actions hurt the team --

Anyone in a cabinet would be asked to resign if the good of an administration demanded it. There are rare exceptions where the cabinet member is either in a position where they are absolutely essential or they have their own political power. No one in the Obama administration cabinet was the liability that Price is, but I would argue that although all members of the cabinet serve at the President's pleasure, he would have suffered politically if he had asked Clinton to resign.

For extremely different reasons, firing Sessions would ignite a firestorm because of the various investigations. I doubt - after all the healthcare failures that Price has any independent support and his acts justify firing him.

[SummerSnow]

17. Trump will tell him to resign

[BigmanPigman]

12. This comes from the biggest hypocrites ever!

What about him charging Secret Service to rent his golf carts. How much did his non stop weekend trips to Mar A Lago cost taxpayers?

[MiniMe]

14. This will be like Flynn, if the press continues to cover it, Price will get fired

If the press lets it drop, tRump will let it drop and will keep Price on.

[IcyPeas]

16. then he should fire the kushner family too..... and his sons