today trump said john kelly will go down as one of the greatest chiefs of staff 'ever'

[spanone]

mr. kelly, meet the kiss of death.

[NastyRiffraff]

1. It's weird that Kelly accepted that job

especially given that he turned it down several times; he clearly didn't want it. What changed?

I have a feeling this will end in tears.

[spanone]

2. trump is unmanageable. don't have a clue why you would want to jump into that hornet's nest?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. Maybe he really thinks he can fix that mess.

Those big-shot generals have pretty substantial egos themselves, and Kelly is used to managing big organizations and having his orders followed. He probably figures he can show up at the West Wing and start creating org charts and rearranging staff duties and telling Scaramucci to behave himself. He'll probably insist on being the gatekeeper for access to Trump, which is the way most chiefs of staff operate. The problem is that Trump doesn't operate that way; he'll insist that Scaramucci and Jared and Ivanka have direct access to him at all times; he won't give Kelly advance notice of much of anything; he'll keep tweeting; he'll directly contradict things Kelly says publicly - just like he did to Priebus. Trump likes chaos and he likes playing his staff against each other. Unless Trump empowers Kelly to clean up that mess - and that won't happen - he'll fail and Trump will stab him in the back on his way out.

[smirkymonkey]

7. If Kelly actually did anything to put out that dumpster fire and change the course that the

administration is heading, Trump would toss him out on his ass in a New York minute. He won't allow anyone to upstage him or look more competent and if Kelly starts imposing some order on this train wreck his days will be numbered.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

10. Bingo.

Trump likes dumpster fires. He starts them. He won't let Kelly or anyone else come anywhere near his stinky conflagrations with a fire extinguisher.

[Ilsa]

16. I hope he has a calm disposition and patience.

I wonder if he conceal-carries while in the WH? (I know: not likely.) Hate to see him lose his cool and start plugging the boss.

[loyalsister]

20. I don't see how a general with an ounce of self awareness

would think it's a good idea to work for a childish bully. It's kind of mystifying that anyone with interpresonal or intellectual skills would see him as salvageable as president.

[ProfessorGAC]

3. He's Had The Job 10 Minutes

People actually listen to this with anything other than disgust?

[spanone]

5. trump mouth hyperbole

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. I just had the same thought. Trump's imprimatur spells certain doom.

[MrScorpio]

8. He'll probably be fired before Christmas

[jmowreader]

11. No. He'll resign on his own by Thanksgiving

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

14. I don't think he'll last that long.

He'll clash with Scaramucci, SCROTUS' Mini-Me, almost instantly. Trump likes foul-mouthed thugs even more than he likes generals, so the minute Kelly starts trying to rein in Mini-Me, he'll be on his way out.

[Kleveland]

9. Everything always has to be "the greatest" with this self aggrandizing blabbermouth.

He is really lost in some sort of alternate reality of his own creation.

Just saying something will be so, does not make it a reality for the rest of the consciousd world.

It is beyond ironic that his so called administration will go down in history as one of the worst, if not the worst!

Childish..... and evil.

[Brother Buzz]

12. Trump is the perfect reverse barometer

This doesn't bode well for Kelly.

[spanone]

17. exactly....kelly looked 'unsettled' next to trump this am......

[JoeStuckInOH]

13. Who?

[Orrex]

15. Find an average person in the US and over them $100,000,000...

if they can name five chiefs of staff from prior to the Trump administration.

I'm betting that you won't lose your $100M on the deal.

[GoCubsGo]

18. I'll give him 3 months... n/t

[Gabi Hayes]

19. Edit your OP down to 8 words!

Ha

John King leads with this on CNN

[spanone]

21. 'today trump said john kelly will go down'

yep

[katmondoo]

22. Remember when a lot of Hitlers Generals hatched a plan to take him down

It failed but who knows maybe Trumps' Generals have the same idea in mind.