{"id":34551,"date":"2018-12-31T03:08:03","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T03:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=34551"},"modified":"2018-12-31T03:08:03","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T03:08:03","slug":"what-a-shocker-kelly-says-trump-not-up-to-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=34551","title":{"rendered":"What a shocker! Kelly says Trump ‘not up to job’?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Imagine my total non-surprise!<\/em><\/p>\n

Departing White House chief of staff John Kelly reportedly told aides many times that Donald Trump “isn’t up to the job” of president of the United States.<\/p>\n

Wow! Who would’ve thought that? Shocking, I tell ya! Simply shocking!<\/p>\n

The New York Times is reporting<\/a> that Kelly, who’s leaving the Trump administration later this week, called the chief of staff post the “worst job in the world.” That’s really saying something, given that the retired Marine Corps four-star general saw more than his share of combat defending this country.<\/p>\n

I wanted Kelly to succeed when he took over from Reince Priebus as White House chief of staff; he had served previously as homeland security secretary. Trump canned Priebus and called Kelly over from DHS to rein in a White House staff that had spiraled out of control.<\/p>\n

Kelly enjoyed some initial success. He got rid of Steve Bannon, the former Brietbart News exec who served as a senior policy guru. He canned Anthony “The Mooch” Scaramucci as White House communications director.<\/p>\n

But then . . .<\/p>\n

Trump just couldn’t be corralled. Kelly couldn’t manage the president. He couldn’t persuade him to follow the normal rules of procedure.<\/p>\n

There is far more than a hint of believability in what the New York Times is reporting. Perhaps that explains why Kelly, who reportedly pledged to stay until after the 2020 election, is departing early.<\/p>\n

I only can add: The truth hurts, Mr. President.<\/p>\n\n

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Imagine my total non-surprise! Departing White House chief of staff John Kelly reportedly told aides many times that Donald Trump “isn’t up to the job” of president of the United States. Wow! Who would’ve thought that? Shocking, I tell ya! Simply shocking! The New York Times is reporting that Kelly, who’s leaving the Trump administration … Continue reading What a shocker! Kelly says Trump ‘not up to job’?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[7225,7192,1424,2158,6868,3878,6673,7282],"class_list":["post-34551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-2020-election","tag-anthony-scaramucci","tag-donald-trump","tag-homeland-security","tag-john-kelly","tag-reince-priebus","tag-steve-bannon","tag-wh-chief-of-staff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34553,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34551\/revisions\/34553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}