Trump Fuming After John Kelly Reportedly Calls Him Uninformed
Source: Vanity Fair
Back in October, two senior Republican officials told the Hives Gabriel Sherman that Chief of Staff John Kelly was miserable in his role at the White House, adding that the retired four-star general was only sticking around to keep the president from doing something truly unhinged. Kelly, of course, pushed back, promising that he had no plans to leave, and Trump himself predicted Kelly would stay in my opinion, for the entire seven remaining years. But much like the recently excommunicated Steve Bannon, Kelly may have thrown his relationship with the president into jeopardy by publicly framing himself as the one person who can keep Donald Trump in check.
This week, both The New York Times and The Washington Post reported that Kelly told members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, who were concerned that Trump would not meet them on a bipartisan immigration compromise, that the president had not been fully informed when he made a campaign promise to build a wall along the Mexican border. Specifically, Rep. Luis V. Gutirrez recalled Kelly as saying that there were statements made about the wall (during the campaign) that were not informed statements. According to Rep. Ral Grijalva, Kelly told the group that he was the one who tempered (Trump) on the issue of the wall, on the issue of DACA.
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Predictably, a source close to the president told Axios that Trump was liable to explode when he saw the interview. Kelly has finally ventured into Steve Bannon territory when it comes to trying to create the perception that hes the great manipulator, saving the country from Trumps ignorance, the source added. Indeed, just a few hours later Trump fired off a series of tweets directly contradicting Kelly. The Wall is the Wall, it has never changed or evolved from the first day I conceived of it, he wrote, reiterating his plan to force Mexico to pay for it . . . somehow. CNN reported that Trump was fuming.
Read more: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/01/john-kelly-on-donald-trump-border-wall
herding cats
(19,569 posts)J_William_Ryan
(1,762 posts)example of a WH official speaking the truth.
SWBTATTReg
(22,214 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(57,756 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,511 posts)How do we get into these situations where the dregs keep rising to the top?
hedda_foil
(16,379 posts)Flat out election fraud. At least when Rome went full authoritarian, they got Caesar and Augustus. We got the Shithole in Chief.
Gothmog
(145,965 posts)dchill
(38,626 posts)Reportedly.
Botany
(70,655 posts)But did that stop him from talking about the USPS, Amazon, and postage rates?
Hell, no.
riversedge
(70,462 posts)kwassa
(23,340 posts)That, and crazed chaos.
truthisfreedom
(23,169 posts)truthisfreedom
(23,169 posts)Corgigal
(9,291 posts)and is trying yo blow up Trumps vascular system.
Of course, since big boy is soooo healthy.
Cha
(298,071 posts)Lucky Luciano
(11,267 posts)dlk
(11,606 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,150 posts)"President Trumps nominee to lead the Department of Justices criminal division used to represent a major Russian bank whose owners have ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin."
honest.abe
(8,689 posts)I suspect Kelly will be out soon. Unfortunate as he is one of few adults in the room there.
Mister Ed
(5,951 posts)Oh, wait...
mahina
(17,770 posts)- Dumbass.
I never knew quotation marks are automatically eliminated from subject lines.
So, should read: I wasnt uninformed, I lied, obviously! - Dumbass.
cannabis_flower
(3,769 posts)He does explode..Like the fat guy at the French restaurant in Month Python's Meaning of Life
https://m.youtube.com/watch?t=8s&v=aczPDGC3f8U
Yavin4
(35,455 posts)It's impossible to be informed.
paleotn
(18,015 posts)Explode if you want to. Give those clogged arteries a good work out.
Juliusseizure
(562 posts)Trump knows his market. He's the sales guy.
He tests out the market based on the below commandments, gets feedback, and adjusts accordingly,
Trump supporters Three commandments.
1) Build a wall
2) Put minorities in their place so they won't ever question white supremacy again.
3) Deport all non-whites, and only white immigrants, if any.
BobTheSubgenius
(11,580 posts)You just never know when or over what he will completely snap.