Trump told FBI Director Kash Patel that he was disappointed by Patel’s behavior while partying with the U.S. men’s hockey team during the Winter Olympics in Milan, Italy, NBC News reported Friday.
The team had won the gold medal after defeating Canada 2-1 in overtime. Patel, a hockey fan, was seen yelling, banging on a table and gulping down a bottle of beer during the locker room celebration on Sunday. Video of the incident, first shared by ProPublica, went viral.
Trump, who doesn’t drink alcohol, told Patel that he was not happy with the incident and disliked Patel using a government aircraft to fly to Milan, a person familiar with the matter told NBC News.
Related: “He neither drinks nor smokes, they say, and bars make him nervous. Humphrey Bogart would have taken a dim view of Nixon. It was Bogart who said, ‘You can’t trust a man who doesn’t drink.’ And it was Raoul Duke who said, ‘I’d never buy a used car from Nixon unless he was drunk.’”
—Hunter S. Thompson
