Wait a minute. He called the guy to yell at him?President Trump upbraided the health and human services secretary on Thursday over his administration’s ban on most flavored e-cigarettes, a proposal that Mr. Trump had vacillated over for months but ultimately endorsed, according to three people familiar with what took place.
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After one of Mr. Trump’s pollsters, Tony Fabrizio, described the importance of health care as an electoral issue, Mr. Trump reached for the phone on the Resolute Desk and called Alex M. Azar II, the secretary of health and human services.
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Well, whose fault is that? Oh yeah, not Trump's. Never Trump's.“I never should have done this vaping thing,” Mr. Trump said, adding an expletive, according to two of the people familiar with what happened.
Jesus, you people. Pathetic enablers.Shortly afterward, Mr. Azar appeared on Fox News and lavished praise on Mr. Trump, a fact the agency highlighted in a news release on Friday.
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.Mr. Azar supported a ban on flavored e-cigarettes to try to curb their widespread use among teenagers. Mr. Trump agreed to such a ban in the fall, but repeatedly waffled on formalizing it after his campaign manager, Brad Parscale, said it would hurt him with his base of voters.
Vaping industry officials also ratcheted up pressure on Mr. Trump.
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That the president, not the Department of Health and Human Services or the Food and Drug Administration, has become so associated with the ban has frustrated him.
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The conversation was typical of Mr. Trump’s approach to negative reactions to his policies or statements — never accept blame, and fault advisers. At no point did the president acknowledge that he had chosen to publicly announce the ban.
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Mr. Azar has increasingly found the White House’s Domestic Policy Council taking a prominent role in policy that intersects with the Department of Health and Human Services, people close to the secretary said.
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