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Watch Trump Kick His Chief of Staff Out of the Oval Office for Coughing

Donald Trump was so bothered by his chief of staff’s coughing during an interview in the Oval Office with ABC News that he asked his top aide to leave the room.

Trump was in the middle of answering a question from ABC’s George Stephanopoulos about his financial records when he abruptly asked to do another take.

“And let’s do that over, he’s coughing in the middle of my answer,” Trump told Stephanopoulos, referring to his chief of staff Mick Mulvaney.

“I don’t like that, you know, I don’t like that,” Trump continued, referring to Mulvaney’s coughing.

“Your chief of staff,” Stephanopoulos clarified.

“If you’re going to cough, please leave the room. You just can’t, you just can’t cough. Boy oh boy,” Trump said.

Trump proceeded to answer Stephanopolous’s question by saying he wanted people to see his “financial statement,” calling it phenomenal.”

Trump added the decision is “not up to me, it’s up to lawyers.”

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