White House Official Busted Insulting ‘Giant Douche Canoe’ Kash Patel

A White House official was reportedly caught texting about sensitive business while telling another official that FBI Director Kash Patel is a “giant douche canoe.”

On Friday night, The Minneapolis Star Tribune reported that it had received screenshots of messages between Anthony Salisbury, who is a deputy of White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, and other administration officials. The publication said that Salisbury was exchanging messages in a public place “in clear view of others” last weekend. Some of those discussions involved the potential deployment of the 82nd Airborne Division to Portland, Oregon:

The messages, casually exchanged last weekend in a crowded, public space, show high-level officials in the Trump administration discussing the deployment of the Army’s 82nd Airborne, an infantry division that has been parachuted into combat zones in both world wars, Vietnam and Afghanistan. If the administration were to send in the Army division, it would almost certainly be challenged in court under federal laws limiting how the military can be used domestically.

The Trump administration opted to send 200 National Guard members to Portland instead. City and Oregon state officials are suing over the deployment.

In another exchange, Salisbury simultaneously praised and insulted Patel. Specifically, Salisbury hailed the director’s decision to fire several FBI agents who had been photographed kneeling during a protest in 2020 after the murder of George Floyd:

“This is how Kash survives,” Salisbury wrote. “He will do this stuff for the man but day to day giant douche canoe.”

A spokesperson for the White House told the Star Tribune that Salisbury was in Minnesota last weekend to serve as a pallbearer at his uncle’s funeral.

This week, Patel also fired an FBI trainee for having displayed a gay pride flag in the workplace last year.

“You are being summarily dismissed from your position as a New Agent Trainee at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia, and removed from the federal service,” Patel wrote. “After reviewing the facts and circumstances and considering your probationary status, I have determined that you exercised poor judgment with an inappropriate display of political signage in your work area during your previous assignment in the Los Angeles Field Office.”