Report: Trump Is Refusing To Make Eye Contact With Gary Cohn

National Economic Council Chairman Gary Cohn, center, and White House Senior Adviser Jared Kushner, right, listen as President Donald Trump speaks while hosting breakfast with business leaders in the Roosevelt Room o... National Economic Council Chairman Gary Cohn, center, and White House Senior Adviser Jared Kushner, right, listen as President Donald Trump speaks while hosting breakfast with business leaders in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, Jan. 23, 2017. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) MORE LESS
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President Donald Trump has given his top economic adviser Gary Cohn, who leads the White House’s National Economic Council, the cold shoulder after he publicly criticized Trump for his lackluster response to violence that erupted at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, the New York Times reported on Friday.

The New York Times reported, citing several unnamed White House aides, that Trump refuses to make eye contact with his top economic adviser whenever Cohn greets the President.

Cohn in August said Trump’s administration “can and must do better in consistently and unequivocally condemning” groups like “white supremacists, neo-Nazis, and the KKK.”

“I am reluctant to leave my post as director of the National Economic Council because I feel a duty to fulfill my commitment to work on behalf of the American people,” he said. “But I also feel compelled to voice my distress over the events of the last two weeks.”

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  1. Tick…tick…tick…

    Goodbye, little tick.

  2. What is this, high school with the mean girls?

  3. “I am reluctant to leave my post as director of the National Economic Council because I feel a duty to fulfill my commitment to work on behalf of the American people,” he said. “But I also feel compelled to voice my distress over the events of the last two weeks.”

    I have some spare boxes you might need to pack up your desk and go.

    Here’s your hat; what’s your hurry?

  4. Ever since Cohn started the rumor that Donald’s hair isn’t real, things have gone downhill. Donald thinks Cohn is an evil Medicine Man.

    Ironic, since no one believes Donald has a soul left to steal.

  5. Wow, talk about childish behavior.

    So, is Trump gonna short-sheet Cohn’s bed? Maybe the old shaving cream trick? Super glue his butt to the toilet seat?

    What fun!

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