White House Chief-of-Staff Announces He is Suffering From Kidney Stones, Then Attacks Paul Krugman

Mick Mulvaney

White House Chief-of-Staff Mick Mulvaney participated in a Q&A session with Maria Bartiromo Tuesday at the Milken Global Conference in Beverly Hills.

He began by announcing that at that very moment he was suffering from kidney stones and then he took the opportunity to slam The New York Times columnist and Nobel laureate Paul Krugman.

"I laugh every time I read Krugman," he told Bartiromo. "He said we would be in a depression the day after the [Trump] election and that we would never get out."

"I want to get a Noble Prize for being as wrong as often as he is," Mulvaney continued.

-RW