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Trump chafes under Kelly's tight leash

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Servbot24

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Hey Trump, if you quit we won't make fun of you. In fact we'll give you a pat on the back. We'll even throw you a parade. It will be great.
 
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Jorok Goldblade

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If I were building a "Who Does Trump Fire Next?" Betting pool, the names on it right now would be:

Tillerson
Sessions
Mattis
McMaster
Kelly
Chao (As a proxy for McConnell)
 
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cameron

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https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/903786422188085248

NYT: Forceful Chief of Staff Grates on Trump, and the Feeling Is Mutual
WASHINGTON — President Trump was in an especially ornery mood after staff members gently suggested he refrain from injecting politics into day-to-day issues of governing after last month’s raucous rally in Arizona, and he responded by lashing out at the most senior aide in his presence.

It happened to be his new chief of staff, John F. Kelly.
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The question now is how long Mr. Kelly will stay, with estimates ranging from a month to a year at the most. White House officials say that Mr. Kelly has given no indication he intends to leave anytime soon. He has thrown himself into long-term planning of the administration’s tax reform push, the president’s Asia trip in November and scheduling for the next several months, they said.
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Mr. Kelly cannot stop Mr. Trump from binge-watching Fox News, which aides describe as the president’s primary source of information gathering. But Mr. Trump does not have a web browser on his phone, and does not use a laptop, so he was dependent on aides like Stephen K. Bannon, his former chief strategist, to hand-deliver printouts of articles from conservative media outlets.

Now Mr. Kelly has thinned out his package of printouts so much that Mr. Trump plaintively asked a friend recently where The Daily Caller and Breitbart were.
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While Mr. Trump still reaches out to allies outside the administration — especially old friends and associates like Corey Lewandowski, a former campaign manager; Richard LeFrak, a fellow developer originally from Queens; Mr. Bannon and a handful of others — more often than not it has been through the White House switchboard and not on his personal phone. And Mr. Kelly has usually listened in on the calls, according to two people with direct knowledge.

Even Ivanka Trump, the president’s daughter, who has unfettered access to her father, has made a point of giving Mr. Kelly a heads-up if she is going to talk to the president about policy or politics, according to one of Ms. Trump’s friends.

Mr. Kelly has his critics outside the administration, notably Mr. Stone, who has accused Mr. Kelly of keeping the president from his friends and allies. He also has critics inside the White House, who have begun to complain that their access to Mr. Kelly has been limited.
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I H8 Memes

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so he was dependent on aides like Stephen K. Bannon, his former chief strategist, to hand-deliver printouts of articles from conservative media outlets.
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It's ridiculous to visualize. He getting handed printouts of webpages like it's serious business. Like a guy showing up at the office with nothing but a PB&J in his briefcase.
 
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Vicetrailia

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Why do we need a president who needs to be watched and controlled like a little toddler? Trump supporters do you have an answer?
 
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Red

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ssolitare said:
Why do we need a president who needs to be watched and controlled like a little toddler? Trump supporters do you have an answer?
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you think killary would have been any butter emails benghazi antifa black lives matter abortion islams
 
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Shoeless

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ssolitare said:
Why do we need a president who needs to be watched and controlled like a little toddler? Trump supporters do you have an answer?
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In a horrifying way, it is proof that American democracy works, and that anyone can become President, no matter how unqualified, inappropriate or horrifyingly damaging they may be. They can still become President. Trump eliminates all doubt about that truism.
 
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Zolo

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Shoeless said:
In a horrifying way, it is proof that American democracy works, and that anyone can become President, no matter how unqualified, inappropriate or horrifyingly damaging they may be. They can still become President. Trump eliminates all doubt about that truism.
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As long as they're rich and can afford the appearances and rallies.
 
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Jackpot

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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/01/us/politics/john-kelly-trump.html?mcubz=0

President Trump was in an especially ornery mood after staff members gently suggested he refrain from injecting politics into day-to-day issues of governing after last month’s raucous rally in Arizona, and he responded by lashing out at the most senior aide in his presence.

It happened to be his new chief of staff, John F. Kelly.

Mr. Kelly, the former Marine general brought in five weeks ago as the successor to Reince Priebus, reacted calmly, but he later told other White House staff members that he had never been spoken to like that during 35 years of serving his country. In the future, he said, he would not abide such treatment, according to three people familiar with the exchange.
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