John Kelly on the way out as chief of staff
No surprise here.
By the way, the lede in that article is very poorly written. Or maybe it’s very well written, depending on what the writers were hoping to convey. Let’s take a look:
Former White House chief of staff John Kelly, who was assigned to bring a level of discipline to President Donald Trump’s often chaotic administration, is leaving the post after internal tensions increasingly spilled into public view in recent months, Trump said Saturday.
So, what did Trump say? Do you think he said that Kelly is leaving “after internal tensions increasingly spilled into public view in recent months”?
Of course not; that’s the authors of the article saying it. Trump said Kelly is leaving, praised him, and the rest is the authors’ editorializing within a supposedly straight news article, along with either careless construction of the sentence or very careful construction of the sentence to make it seem that Trump admitted to all that.
Who will be Kelly’s replacement? The money is on Nick Ayers, Pence’s chief of staff.
The media coverage of political issues (and apparently everything is political now) has gotten to the point where there are no objective, down the middle pieces anymore. We saw it with Bush’s death last week and we see it every damn day.
But, hey, they finally got this one right after reporting stories from ‘anonymous sources’ or a ‘person familiar with so and so’s thinking’ for the last year and a half.
There must have been 20 different times when this was reported.
Kelly’s problem was that he doesn’t share Trump’s perception of the issues. Like Tillerson and McMaster he was brought in to control Trump. Trump getting rid of them is a good sign. Replacing Kelly with a Pence guy is I fear… a bad sign.
Kelly is leaving because Trump sleeps 4 hours a day and that would wear out anybody trying to keep up.
Geoffrey, why do you fear replacing Kelly with a Pence guy is a bad sign?
The cited quote is from USA Today.
That organization, along with the NYTimes and the Tribune (Chicago) Company, owns the large majority of small town newspapers in the USA.
The paper in my town in the Gulf Coast is owned by USA Today, which has its own section in this ever-shrinking paper.
These biased “news” sources are everywhere, a la Gramsci. The paper in the small and dying town of Opelousas LA is owned by the NYT!
USA Today reads Neo!
The first graf now says:
“White House chief of staff John Kelly, who was assigned to bring a level of discipline to President Donald Trump’s often chaotic administration, is leaving the post after internal tensions increasingly spilled into public view.”
and this correction is appended at the end:
“This story has been updated to remove extraneous word in the first sentence.”
Well, it should say “words,” but you can’t expect media writers to use correct grammar anymore.
Cicero on December 9, 2018 at 1:03 pm at 1:03 pm said:
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These biased “news” sources are everywhere, a la Gramsci. The paper in the small and dying town of Opelousas LA is owned by the NYT!
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That’s actually rather frightening.
Is there no Anti-Trust division centered on monopoly media coverage?
According to reports, it appears that The Donald exists on only a few hours of sleep at night, and the rest of the time he is working at a furious pace.
Look at his schedule, the volume of his work and his accomplishments. I could see how that might wear out most people.
Is that the case here?
Is Kelly leaving over political disagreements, or is it that Kelly just can’t deal with Trump’s style of governing?
If you really want to get things done and demand loyalty and results, Is a stable staff to be expected, or is a lot of churn and turnover the likely result?
As has been said above, so much crap has been printed and speculated about–over and over again–by the MSM, it is hard to have any real or clear idea of what is really happening in the White House.
In this regard–if it has made it to Youtube–take a look at Tucker Carlson’s recent compilation of the usual MSM suspects predicting Trump’s immanent doom because of this or that Tweet or development.
AesopFan:
That’s pretty surprising.
I just read “Trump’s Enemies,” by Lewandowski and Bossie. They point out a number of occasions where the supposed :”chaos” was reported when there was nothing like it actually happening. I also read their book on the Campaign and how Manafort was hired by the Trump kids before the Convention because he was supposed to be an expert at delegate management. He was immediately seen to be a crook and Trump fired him when he learned about his history.
So much of what we read by the anti-Trump press is being fed by Obama holdovers and disgruntled Deep Staters of both parties.
Mike K on December 10, 2018 at 7:27 am at 7:27 am said:
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So much of what we read by the anti-Trump press is being fed by Obama holdovers and disgruntled Deep Staters of both parties.
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While not sure we can entirely trust Lewandowski and Bossie, what you quote does jibe with contemporaneous reports in the non-DSM (Deep State Media).
Maybe we’ve been too hard on Dan Rather: the news today is not only fake, it doesn’t even pretend to be accurate.
why do you fear replacing Kelly with a Pence guy is a bad sign?
Not happening. He turned the job down, assuming it was offered, and I read Mulvaney is a prospect.
While not sure we can entirely trust Lewandowski and Bossie,
I assume there is a certain amount of schadenfreude with respect to Manafort by Lewandowski but there is no reason I know to doubt the account they provide. Trump has stayed in touch with them all along, even after the kids fired Lewandowski to hire Manafort. That was their doing.
Trump is very alone in a sea of reptiles. The few allies he has are his kids and Lewandowski and Bossie.
Mike K:
Trump is besieged by reptiles, but fortunately he is not alone and not lonely.
Many of us stand with him.
It is rather a blessing that he responds to the jibes of the Left with his Twitters. I resent the need for him to do so, but does he really have any other way to get his word and view out?
There’s a reason I call them the ENEMEDIA after Pam Geller.
And a request; after suitably vetting my site, I’d greatly appreciate being added to your blogroll – if you are willing that is. You’re on mine already.
Mike K on December 10, 2018 at 12:09 pm at 12:09 pm said:
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I assume there is a certain amount of schadenfreude with respect to Manafort by Lewandowski but there is no reason I know to doubt the account they provide. Trump has stayed in touch with them all along, even after the kids fired Lewandowski to hire Manafort. That was their doing.
Trump is very alone in a sea of reptiles. The few allies he has are his kids and Lewandowski and Bossie.
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At this point, I doubt the account that anyone provides. However, the inherent contradiction that Trump can only depend on his kids and Lewandowski, and his kids fired Lewandowski, does not enhance my confidence in anyone’s self-reports of the situations.
PowerLine’s posts on the COS position have some good conversation in the comments about the difficulties faced by both Trump (where to find the non-reptiles in the swamp) and his subordinates (he is not an easy man to work for, if you don’t understand and agree with his goals and methods).
Paul M. wrote both of these, if that matters to anyone here. He tends to pull more disagreement from his commenters than the other guys at PL do.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/12/trump-rex-tillerson-is-dumb-as-a-rock-and-lazy-as-hell.php
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/12/the-worst-job-in-washington-dc.php
I’m surprised the headline didn’t end with “…Trump said Saturday, falsely, and without evidence.”
Thus say the self-anointed guardians of the public’s sacred right to know… exactly what Democrats think they need to know.