Jared Kushner screamed at a health official, calling him a 'f****g moron' and crying 'we'll all be dead in June' after learning that a shipment of COVID-19 masks had been delayed last March.
The incident was revealed in a new book about Trump's response to the pandemic.
It describes how Kushner, a senior adviser, screamed at HHS emergency preparedness chief Robert Kadlec last March when Kadlec told him that he'd bought 600 million masks for the country - but that they wouldn't arrive until June.
Kushner, the book claims, threw his pen against a wall and screamed: 'You f****ng moron.
'We’ll all be dead by June.'
Kadlec was also yelled at by White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows for not distributing remdesivir across the country fast enough.
Jared Kushner screamed at HHS emergency preparedness chief Robert Kadlec (right with Trump) last March when Kadlec told him that he'd bought 600 million masks for the country - but that they wouldn't arrive until June
Meadows yelled at him: 'I’m going to fire your ass if you can’t fix this!'
The book, titled Nightmare Scenario: Inside the Trump Administration's Response to the Pandemic That Changed History, also claims that Trump considered quarantining Americans infected with COVID on Guantanamo Bay.
'Don't we have an island that we own? What about Guantánamo?' the president asked in the Situation Room in February 2020, according to Yasmeen Abutaleb and Damian Paletta in Nightmare Scenario: Inside the Trump Administration's Response to the Pandemic That Changed History.
Donald Trump considered quarantining Americans infected with COVID on Guantanamo Bay when the pandemic first started to take hold, a new book claims. Trump is pictured in February, 2020
Trump then brought up the idea a second time, forcing aides to quash the plan fearing a backlash over putting members of the public on the same island as terrorism suspects, according to an excerpt published in the Washington Post.
The book details the workings inside the White House before infections started to spread across the country at the end of February and start of March 2020 and is based off interviews with 180 people.
It also details how Trump allegedly fumed at US infections doubling from 14 to 28 when infected Americans were let off the Diamond Princess cruise ship onto U.S. soil and his anger over the CDC taking over testing.
Abutaleb and Paletta write that Trump also raged about testing, slammed letting the CDC take over and dealt with aides worried about undermining public health.
'Testing is killing me!' Trump reportedly shouted in a phone call to then-Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar on March 18.
'I'm going to lose the election because of testing! What idiot had the federal government do testing?' the president added.
