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President Trump wanted his recently fired chief of staff to kill for him.
Trump once summoned Reince Priebus into an Oval Office meeting to take out a fly that was distracting him, the Washington Post reported.
The newspaper noted it was one of multiple times the commander in chief humiliated Priebus, whom he fired on Friday and replaced with Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly.
The winged insect was puttering above the President’s head in a meeting sometime during Priebus’ rocky six-month tenure.
It wasn’t clear if Priebus was successful in killing the fly.
Chiefs of staff typically oversee White House operations and an administration’s relations with congress.
Killing flies, which the Washington Post noted plague the West Wing, isn’t typically part of the job description.
But Trump reportedly put Priebus down on a regular basis, and reports spilled out in February that the President was looking to fire the former Republican National Committee chair.
Trump held a grudge against Priebus for calling for him to drop out of the race last October, the Washington Post reported, when a 2005 audio recording captured Trump making sexist comments about women.
His days seemed number in the last week, especially after Trump hired Anthony Scaramucci as his new communications director.
Scaramucci made waves in his first few days, having a profanity laced phone call with a New Yorker reporter in which he accused Priebus of being the source of White House leaks.
Despite the demeaning nature of the fly story, some social media users were quick to find the humor in it.
Critics of the President pointed to the fly problem in the West Wing, and the insects’ affinity for excrement.
Others made light of leaks coming out of the White House, which have irked Trump.
“Just attempting to stop all the leaking from the flies on the wall I suppose,” wrote @TroutmasterF1sh.
“West Wing has a fly problem because its ran by the Lord of Flies,” tweeted @TheReal_Shani.
Flies can also be interpreted as the presence of evil spirits, some pointed out.
“Isn’t one of Satan’s telltale signs that he’s accompanied by flies? West Wing fly problem? Hmmm…” @BarbnBurgh tweeted.