President Trump lambasted chief of staff John Kelly after staffers suggested to their boss that he stray away from political distractions that could impede his policy agenda, according to a report Friday.
Kelly was the senior most aide in the room when Trump directed his ire at him some time after Trump’s wild rally in Phoenix last month in which he again assailed the media, among other things. Kelly reacted calmly in the face of Trump’s frustration.
Kelly, a former Marine Corps general, later told fellow staffers that he had never been talked to that way in his life. Sources told The New York Times he would not endure that kind of treatment again.
The latest look into the Trump-Kelly dynamic follows a string of reports on how Trump is having a difficult time accepting the strict operation in the White House run by Kelly, who transitioned from the Homeland Security Department at the end of July, replacing Reince Priebus.
Since then, Kelly has restricted the flow of information and people that reaches Trump. That reportedly includes limiting which family members can see Trump in the Oval Office on a whim.
However, Trump has been slow to adjust to some of Kelly’s changes, including acclimating to a more limited scope of news articles printed out for him to read — since he reportedly doesn’t browse the Internet and otherwise relies on the Fox News channel.
Further, a Washington Post report this week said Trump, when Kelly isn’t around, uses his personal phone to talk to recently departed White House chief strategist Steve Bannon and other business friends and outside advisers.
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Trump lambasted John Kelly after being advised to be less political: Report https://t.co/7k4kMleeT2 pic.twitter.com/ky03L7wA6v
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) September 2, 2017
Well, I guess Kelly will be the next one through the revolving door at the White House. If so, that would be too bad. Trump needs someone with discipline to run things because Trump himself doesn’t have any. But Trump’s massive ego just won’the allow for a strong person in charge. The CEO of this company has to be Trump. No one else.
And I knew it. Bannon isn’t really gone. Just like Roger Stone.
The reality TV presidency continues.
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