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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGeneral Kelly, hmmm a General who is used to policy, regulations, and order..
Will be in charge of the likes of FU Mooch and the rest of the motley crew that is team trump. Uh huh, he'll last a few months, tops.
Ilsa
(61,721 posts)Should we start a betting pool?
Trump doesn't do anything but watch tv, tweet, badmouth his minions. He will drive Kelly Bonkers.
elleng
(131,597 posts)riversedge
(70,578 posts)Tatiana
(14,167 posts)If we know nothing at all, we know that Trump's attempts to district often backfire.
Firing Comey led to Mueller (thank G-d!).
Trump misinterprets Kelly's respect for loyalty. He thinks it will be to him, but I do think it is to the country first.
awesomerwb1
(4,272 posts)BUT Kelly was supposed to be the adult (not afraid to speak truth to power) in the room along with Mattis etc.
He was a friend of the dreamers saying the program still existed because of him.
Kelly may just turn out to be another white supremacist/nationalist.
Bannon would not allow anyone who may possibly interfere with their agenda to get close to cheeto. Kelly's gotta be one of them.
procon
(15,805 posts)within Trump's WH try to stake out more turf. Trump will encourage the backbiting and continue on
just as he always has, acting like a can of gasoline in search of a lit match.
exboyfil
(17,867 posts)I wonder if Trump is ready for that. I heard the insane idea that Sessions will slide to Homeland Security. Two contentious confirmation hearings.
haele
(12,713 posts)He'll stand by until he's told to do something. And work out any aggressions or feelings of resentment on the target he's given.
Politically at this more advisory level of Executive Staff, he can follow orders and cover his ass under policies and regulations; they tend not to be as stringent at a staff level than they do when he's actually in the Military - or if he were part of the Department of Homeland Security, where he would be subject to the ethics regulations that the head of an agency would be under.
If Drumpf goes down in flames, he can just shrug his shoulders and stand aside. If we become a third world Dictatorship, he's positioned to be a successful Consigliore.
Haele
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