President Trump once ordered former White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus to exterminate a fly during a White House meeting, according to a report Friday.

Citing a source familiar with the incident, The Washington Post reported that the commander in chief became distracted by a "buzzing" fly during an Oval Office meeting and summoned Priebus to kill the pesky insect.

The relationship between Priebus and Trump has had its ups and downs. Back in 2016, Priebus suggested Trump withdraw from the presidential race after the emergence of the now infamous Access Hollywood tape of Trump talking about groping women, The New York Times reported.

"No woman should ever be described in these terms or talked about in this manner," Priebus, chair of the Republican National Committee, said at the time. "Ever."

That was something Trump had trouble forgetting and Priebus' loyalty was often questioned, according to the Post. Citing White House officials, the Post reported that the call to remove Priebus from his position "heightened over the past 10 days or so."

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“It reached a fever pitch of the president complaining about Reince to all of us,” an unnamed senior White House official told the Post. “If we heard it once, we heard it 20 times in the last week — this erosion of confidence. The word was 'weak' — 'weak,' 'weak,' 'weak.' 'Can’t get it done.'”

Speculation on Priebus' job security spiked even further with Trump’s decision to hire Anthony Scaramucci as his new communications director, who proceeded to wage a war of words against Priebus, culminating in a profane screed published by The New Yorker.

Announcing the decision to replace Priebus on Twitter, Trump named John Kelly as the new White House chief of staff. Kelly will start on the job Monday, White House spokesperson Sarah Huckabee Sanders said.

Contributing: Craig Gilbert, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel