After Trump said in August 2017 there were “very fine people on both sides” of a white supremacist rally and counter-protest in Charlottesville, Virginia, his former top economic advisor Gary Cohn, who is Jewish, reportedly handed him a resignation letter.

“This is treason,” Trump said, according to the report about Woodward’s book. Cohn stayed on until March, resigning shortly after Trump said the U.S. would impose tariffs on imports of steel and aluminum from a variety of countries.

Kelly then reportedly confided to Cohn: “I would have taken that resignation letter and shoved it up his ass six different times.”