âIâm not sure President Trump is wired to be able to listen to that type of criticism,â he said.
No shit Sherlock!!!
Don-n-n-nald?
DONALD!
LISTEN TO ME!
And look at me when Iâm talking to you!
Just another morning at the pinnacle of power in the free world âŚ
Will he listen to his chief of staff when Kelly has to tell Trump, âNo?ââ he asked.
Rhetorical question, right?
I imagine one of the first things Gen. Kelly arranged was a little get-together with the senior White House staff. Just to let them know who was in charge of the staff (something along the lines of, âWhat the bleep do you bleeping idiots think bleeping âChief of Staffâ means?â) and what the command structure was. I visualize it as a mini-bootcamp for the White House staff. I also imagine that his orders will be acknowledged with âYes, sir, Mr. Kelly, sirâ from now on (probably even by the President; we know that Donnie Boy wilts when faced with a strong personality one on one). You donât get to be a Marine Corps general by letting your staff play grab-ass.
And now the 50 Million Dollar Question will finally be answered:
Can this POS POTUS be effectively reduced to a powerless GOP figurehead?
I am praying no. I hope he remains completely, pathologically, ragingly uncontrollable. May Kelly bear down so hard that this POS finally, definitively self destructs. Without starting WWIII. WITHOUT
Trumpâs ultimate dilemma: generals exude power, but they also tend to be disciplined
And Kellyâs protestations, the leaks will keep flowing out like shit rolling down hill.
Just like General Flynn.
Now it will be like toilets in the Caribbean, where you can see the shit going from the house to the hole in the ground.
And you wonder why there are mosquitos.
Although⌠now we will see who uses Trump toilet paper;)
Youâre dreaming.
The very fact that this story has already been leaked, indicates that the knives are already at Kellyâs back. This story makes Trump look weak and petulant. No way in hell he will stand for that, those are the two biggest Grievances that he can ever perceive (followed very closely by trying to take his limelightâŚwhich this story also implies).
This isnât the Marine Corps, and this entire line of thinking I keep seeing popping up is deeply troubling. It an expression of just how deeply our country has fetishized the military. There was someone on CNN this morning or last night, that was going on about how Kelly knows tactics, he knows battle,so he is totally the man for the job. That is utterly insanity. He isnât directly a platoon of Marines to take an enemy position. He doesnât get to shoot the press or Democrats because he thinks they are the enemy. Or even Bannon or Kushner.
Everything you say is obvious to anyone who has watched politics.
I would be surprised if it takes one week before the Kelly appointment is seen as a complete catastrophe, and I think more likely that judgment will come by the end of today.
Exactly correct:
I think this is exactly right. Kellyâs days are already numbered.
Never been in the military, have you?
You also donât seem to be aware of the history of the Chief of Staff position in the White House. It was established to put the White House staff on a military basis. Even the title comes from the military. I came across this while looking for something on Gen Alexander Haig. It is an interesting read and provides some historical perspective:
Be assured, Kelly will establish discipline or go down trying. If he canât heâll quit. If he establishes too much, Trump will fire him. It may well be that the gang of malcontents, miscreants, and misanthropes that make up the White House staff may be too much for him, but if he fails it wonât be for lack of trying.
Kelly is tailor made for an authoritarian president.
Kellyâs all but toast. The only way he could possibly take the helm of the A.S.S. Trumptanic would be to remove all the incompetent people with direct access to Trumplethinskin, beginning with Invankatoinette and her almost-lifelike looking cuck Jared âFull Metal Jackassâ Kushner.
Then heâd have to systematically remove all the other sycophantic disasters milling about the West Wing. That would effectively leave the phalanx of assorted White House aides that POtuS trusts numbering in the high zeros.
This simply isnât going to happen.
Indeed, the only thing Kelly will accomplish in this fiasco is capping his heretofore âdistinguishedâ career with proof positive that his judgement should never, ever be trusted again.
Prior to it being renamed (by Nixon) Chief of Staff, the position was called Appointments Secretary.
Your point of view is interesting. I was thinking yesterday about Trump;s penchant for surrounding himself with military figures, which in changing circumstances, could be very dangerous.
Trumpâs tweets today regarding his use of Twitter should merely be confirmation of that, IMO.
It was in 1953, under Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower, that the presidentâs preeminent assistant was designated the White House chief of staff.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_Chief_of_Staff
Eisenhower, you may recall, was a military man.