Trump’s New Chief Of Staff Once Called Him A ‘Terrible Human Being’

UNITED STATES - APRIL 18: Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney testifies before a House Appropriations Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee hearing in Rayburn Building on FY2019 Budget for OMB on April 18, 2018. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
UNITED STATES - APRIL 18: Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney testifies before a House Appropriations Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee hearing in Rayburn Building on the FY201... UNITED STATES - APRIL 18: Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney testifies before a House Appropriations Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee hearing in Rayburn Building on the FY2019 Budget for OMB on April 18, 2018. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call) MORE LESS
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In a congressional debate just weeks before President Donald Trump won the 2016 election, then-congressman Mick Mulvaney referred to his future boss as a “terrible human being,” according to a Saturday Daily Beast report. 

He made the remark when asked who he’d be supporting in the upcoming election.

“Yes, I am supporting Donald Trump, but I’m doing so despite the fact that I think he’s a terrible human being,” he said as recorded by The State.

Mulvaney was named Trump’s acting chief of staff on Friday, to temporarily replace John Kelly. He will keep his post as OMB Director and work in the two positions concurrently.

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  1. Terrible in the way of a mighty god. Like Zeus, but richer with hotter chicks

  2. Yeah he’s just as terrible now as he was then. The only thing that is new is your display of hypocrisy. Good start.

  3. Avatar for tsp tsp says:

    “Yes, I am supporting Donald Trump, but I’m doing so despite the fact that I think he’s a terrible human being,” he said as recorded by The State.

    Takes one to know one.

    Birds of a feather…

  4. Can someone explain one more time why we’re not allowed to use vulgar terms to describe how these people are prepared – indeed happy and eager – to allow Drumpf to use them for his personal pleasure in any way he sees fit?

  5. He didn’t mean that as a negative thing. We’re currently engaged in an experiment to see if we can empower the terrible-human community and integrate them into society as full equals. Rapists, Nazis, incels, authoritarians, gun nuts, anti-intellectuals, simplistic thinkers, conspicuous and wasteful consumers, the shallow, the hateful, the ignorant—they’re Americans too. (cue music)

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