# Scott Pruitt **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 3, 2018, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-pruitt/815360 "2018-06-03T15:59:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2018, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-pruitt/815360/21 "2018-06-04T02:00:05Z")
From its very inception, though, there have been people hoping, nay praying, that the EPA would be destroyed from within by such a leader. “Supposed to be” is a term best reserved for those who actually believe in the EPA mandate, and in the ideals under which it was created. Scott Pruitt is doing the job for which he was appointed: hampering, hindering, and hamstringing the EPA… If not destroying it outright. He’s a tool, in more ways than one. . ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2018, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-pruitt/815360/22 "2018-06-04T02:11:09Z")
> [@andros](#): > > From its very inception, though, there have been people hoping, nay praying, that the EPA would be destroyed from within by such a leader. “Supposed to be” is a term best reserved for those who actually believe in the EPA mandate, and in the ideals under which it was created. > > Scott Pruitt is doing the job for which he was appointed: hampering, hindering, and hamstringing the EPA… If not destroying it outright. He’s a tool, in more ways than one. > . This is quite true—he’s doing what his boss wants, which is to turn the EPA into the Environmental Pillaging Agency. But the thing is, there have got to be a couple dozen people out there who have the same willingness to carry out this agenda, and the same level of skill to get that done, but who wouldn’t have been in the running for Most Corrupt Cabinet Official, Like, Ever. What an administration. What a world. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2018, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-pruitt/815360/23 "2018-06-04T05:46:16Z")
Was Pruitt the guy who wanted a flag raised to signify he was in the building? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2018, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-pruitt/815360/24 "2018-06-04T06:09:50Z")
That’s your weird Secretary of the Interior. Pruitt is the one with the special phone and cone of silence in his office. ---
**Author:** ![JeffB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeffb/32/188_2.png) [@JeffB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JeffB)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2018, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-pruitt/815360/25 "2018-06-04T06:10:45Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > Was Pruitt the guy who wanted a flag raised to signify he was in the building? Nope, that was Zinke (Interior). ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2018, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-pruitt/815360/26 "2018-06-04T11:45:26Z")
This asshole is the reason I want Canada to start putting tank traps along its border with the US. Some time down the road when the US is a toxic sludge pit, I don’t want them looking to Canada for ‘breathing room’. ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2018, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-pruitt/815360/27 "2018-06-04T11:50:28Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > This asshole is the reason I want Canada to start putting tank traps along its border with the US. Some time down the road when the US is a toxic sludge pit, I don’t want them looking to Canada for ‘breathing room’. Considered building a wall, and making them pay for it? ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2018, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-pruitt/815360/28 "2018-06-04T16:37:35Z")
[Now this](https://apnews.com/a21259d0e3a4431791ee32813f838a59/Aide:-EPA's-Pruitt-sought-used-Trump-hotel-mattress): > [@](#): > > Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt had a top aide seek a used mattress from the Trump International Hotel and perform other personal chores for him, according to an email and testimony from the aide released Monday. > > The account from Pruitt scheduling director Millan Hupp is in a letter House Democrats sent Monday to Oversight committee Chairman Trey Gowdy, a South Carolina Republican. > > Hupp appeared before a panel of House oversight committee staffers earlier this month. Democrats released a partial transcript of her interview Monday, including Hupp’s account that Pruitt had her do personal errands, including house hunting and booking a trip for him to the Rose Bowl. > > Staffers also asked Hupp about an email that showed her reaching out to managers of the Trump hotel at Pruitt’s request. Hupp told the House staffers that Pruitt was seeking to secure a used mattress from the Trump hotel. > > Pruitt had told lawmakers earlier this spring that any house-hunting Hupp did for him was on personal time. > > Reps. Elijah Cummings of Maryland and Gerald Connolly of Virginia, the ranking Democrats on the House oversight committee and a subcommittee on government operations, respectively, call the errands a violation of federal law on gifts from subordinates. In their letter, the Democrats ask Gowdy to issue a subpoena for government records they say EPA is currently withholding from the committee. So just how bad was this guy when he was only operating in his home state Oklahoma? ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2018, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-pruitt/815360/29 "2018-06-04T17:09:21Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > This asshole is the reason I want Canada to start putting tank traps along its border with the US. Some time down the road when the US is a toxic sludge pit, I don’t want them looking to Canada for ‘breathing room’. _Liebensraum_, man, might as well use the correct terminology. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2018, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-pruitt/815360/30 "2018-06-04T17:11:52Z")
That means ‘love room’. Neat idea, but no thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2018, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-pruitt/815360/31 "2018-06-04T17:30:32Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > _Liebensraum_, man, might as well use the correct terminology. Lebensraum. Liebensraum is room to love. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2018, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-pruitt/815360/32 "2018-06-04T17:42:07Z")
> [@](#): > > Scott Pruitt had a top aide seek a used mattress from the Trump International Hotel With or without Russian hooker pee stains? ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2018, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-pruitt/815360/33 "2018-06-04T20:20:05Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > [Now this](https://apnews.com/a21259d0e3a4431791ee32813f838a59/Aide:-EPA's-Pruitt-sought-used-Trump-hotel-mattress):So just how bad was this guy when he was only operating in his home state Oklahoma? Notoriously bad. His ascension to EPA is a case of the billionaire class making a point that they own the politicians, they own the church, \*they think they own society itself, \*and they can make us all drink poison and make some of us like it. I don’t know for absolutely certain that the following isn’t the case: Scott Pruitt could easily brewing up the Flavor Aid for all of us to drink whenever our self-declared owners go and decide to take the rest of us with them to death. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2018, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-pruitt/815360/34 "2018-06-05T00:23:39Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > It’s like being a flat-earther – even a bright person required to maintain such a fiction would have a hard time with it. Hey, knock it off! :mad: The earth _is_ flat. But how can you get from one side to the other by flying or taking a boat you ask? Well, let me show you how it works on a smaller [scale](https://cdn.wccftech.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/pacmaan.png). There’s your proof, bub! ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2018, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-pruitt/815360/35 "2018-06-05T00:45:09Z")
> [@](#): > > Scott Pruitt had a top aide seek a used mattress from the Trump International Hotel > [@Steve\_MB](#): > > With or without Russian hooker pee stains? I heard about this ‘used mattress’ thing several hours ago; try as I might, I still can’t think of any reason for it. In an Administration distinguished by the bizarre, this may be the most peculiar development yet. Was Pruitt going to try to sell Trump on the idea that he (Pruitt) adores his boss so much that he can sleep only on a mattress that was once used in a hotel with the boss’s name on it? That’s the best I can come up with. ??? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2018, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-pruitt/815360/36 "2018-06-05T01:06:34Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > I heard about this ‘used mattress’ thing several hours ago; try as I might, I still can’t think of any reason for it. In an Administration distinguished by the bizarre, this may be the most peculiar development yet. > > Was Pruitt going to try to sell Trump on the idea that he (Pruitt) adores his boss so much that he can sleep only on a mattress that was once used in a hotel with the boss’s name on it? > > That’s the best I can come up with. > > ??? eBay. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2018, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-pruitt/815360/37 "2018-06-05T03:14:20Z")
Since Pruitt doesn’t believe in pollution, my suggestion is to pipe the output of an unscrubbed coal fired plant into his office. But Trump hires only the best. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2018, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-pruitt/815360/38 "2018-06-05T03:36:19Z")
The pee-stained mattress is found in the liebensraum, right? ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2018, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-pruitt/815360/39 "2018-06-05T04:10:14Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > I heard about this ‘used mattress’ thing several hours ago; try as I might, I still can’t think of any reason for it. In an Administration distinguished by the bizarre, this may be the most peculiar development yet. > > Was Pruitt going to try to sell Trump on the idea that he (Pruitt) adores his boss so much that he can sleep only on a mattress that was once used in a hotel with the boss’s name on it? > > That’s the best I can come up with. > > ??? I was wondering about that as well. I wasn’t sure if wanted a particular mattress (one that a certain person had slept on, or that contained a DNA sample, or something), or if he just wanted any mattress from that hotel (perhaps he got a great night’s sleep there and wanted a mattress just like that). ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2018, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-pruitt/815360/40 "2018-06-05T13:16:05Z")
At what point do normal people, people who support Trump and his agenda with the EPA, start considering that Pruitt, along with his supposed admirable qualities (to them, anyway), is also certifiably insane? The need for security, the cone of silence, the mattress…does he need to show up with a shoe on his head? Petting a live lobster? Eating a bowl of hair? What will it take? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-pruitt/815360.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scott-pruitt/815360.md?page=3)