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TrollBuster9090

(5,955 posts)
Tue Jan 23, 2018, 03:45 AM Jan 2018

National Review Article: "President Kelly." Bound To Get Trump's Goat.

If there's one thing Trump can't stand, it's the narrative that people on his Staff are "managing" him. TRUMP WHISPERERS. Steve Bannon getting his Moonscape-like face on TIME, and getting lampooned on SNL as the power behind the throne was a major factor in getting him fired.

When NATIONAL REVIEW magazine (William F. Buckley's publication) starts publishing Op/Ed pieces entitled "Being President Kelly" about John Kelly...you know his days are numbered. More importantly, you know that CONSERVATIVES are actively trying to get RID of him.

Here's the article:
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/455626/john-kelly-president-chief-of-staff-runs-administration

Quotes from the article:

"Donald Trump runs a Twitter account. President John Kelly is running the administration."

"President Trump is soft. John Kelly is hard....President Trump likes tough guys, and he thinks of himself as a tough guy. Remember all that palling around with Mike Tyson during the campaign and his fondness for Vladimir Putin? “Tough” is practically Trump’s favorite adjective, and adjectives are his favorite class of words. The problem is that Trump wants to be a tough guy — desperately — but isn’t one. He’s a rich kid from New York City who never in his life has been obliged to lift anything heavier than money"

"Trump is a familiar sort of man who mistakes being hard for being a sadist, and thinks that his own well-documented appetite for inflicting suffering and humiliation on others makes him tough."

"President John Kelly serves at the sufferance of tweeter-in-chief Donald Trump, the little pilot fish who has mistaken himself for a great white shark. (Oh, Trump and “Shark Week!”) Let us hope that that symbiotic relationship continues to thrive for as long as the Trump presidency endures."
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National Review Article: "President Kelly." Bound To Get Trump's Goat. (Original Post) TrollBuster9090 Jan 2018 OP
Lol, major burn! area51 Jan 2018 #1
The fact that it's a classical conservative publication makes it much worse. TrollBuster9090 Jan 2018 #2
2 NR journalists were also on some tv PBS show trashing trump but they were all never Trump lunasun Jan 2018 #3
its clear that kelly wants to get out of wh AlexSFCA Jan 2018 #4
Then Kelley should leave. Demtexan Jan 2018 #6
"thinks that his own well-documented appetite for inflicting suffering and humiliation on others ... muriel_volestrangler Jan 2018 #5
Looks like NR wants Kelly gone. TBA Jan 2018 #7

TrollBuster9090

(5,955 posts)
2. The fact that it's a classical conservative publication makes it much worse.
Tue Jan 23, 2018, 03:53 AM
Jan 2018

Definitely a major burn. (I wonder if Kelly himself seeded the article because he's just BEGGING to get himself fired. He's a jerk, and I can see how he loves being the power behind the throne...but I can't imagine he enjoys being dressed down by a mentally incompetent man-baby.)

lunasun

(21,646 posts)
3. 2 NR journalists were also on some tv PBS show trashing trump but they were all never Trump
Tue Jan 23, 2018, 04:09 AM
Jan 2018

Never trump conservatives really piss off trump I bet because the despise him and are ashamed instead of proud of all his winning.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,347 posts)
5. "thinks that his own well-documented appetite for inflicting suffering and humiliation on others ...
Tue Jan 23, 2018, 04:28 AM
Jan 2018

... makes him tough". The blind pig has found the acorn there.

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