Famously thrifty Scott Pruitt tried to buy a used mattress from a Trump Hotel

Environmental Protection Agency head Scott Pruitt, a man who spent $43,000 in government funds on a soundproof phone booth, apparently also wanted to buy an old mattress from Washington, D.C.’s Trump International Hotel.

According to an AP report, Pruitt asked senior aide Millan Hupp to hunt for the mattress — a Stearns & Foster mattress produced exclusively for Trump Hotels in 2008, per BuzzFeed — around the time he was planning to move.

“The administrator had spoken with someone at the Trump Hotel, who had indicated there could be a mattress he could purchase, an old mattress he could purchase,” said Hupp. Read more…

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Source: Mashable | Famously thrifty Scott Pruitt tried to buy a used mattress from a Trump Hotel