John Kelly, reacts as he listens to President Trump's U.N. speech.

[kpete]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/world-leaders-faces-react-trump-slideshow-wp-170524939/photo-p-white-house-chief-staff-photo-170524741.html

[True Dough]

1. I'm sure John Kelly, like so many of us

wished that this was an ejection seat...

[Control-Z]

7. Looks a bit like an old electric chair. eom

[Judi Lynn]

26. Yes, it does, and he looks as if he already died! n/t

[TeamPooka]

11. Every chair a toilet to Trump.

[tclambert]

44. Okay, let me do my mind reading thing . . .

Kelly is thinking, "Why the hell do we bother writing speeches for him when he just gets up there and wings it?"

Trump in the chair is thinking, "What should my next tweet be about? Maybe about how long these nobodies made me sit here waiting to speak. I better talk tough to show them who's boss."

[Motley13]

2. I noticed Tillerson & Haley looked as if they were held hostage

[JenniferJuniper]

3. Even Melania is all "WTF?"

[Proud Liberal Dem]

9. Even she realizes that nuclear bombs don't discriminate in who they kill

[Cosmocat]

17. Dude, she is always like that with him

He better hope she never gets her hands on a bottle of acid ...

[SunSeeker]

23. Nah, her face has been stretched so tight she always looks like that. nt

[CatMor]

4. Melania always looks like....

she is suffering from a painful physical condition.

[PCIntern]

29. Mailordia didn't always look like this:

http://time.com/melania-trump-inauguration-model-first-lady/

[CatMor]

32. It must be the pain

is from all the plastic surgery.

[NastyRiffraff]

46. Her face is bleeding

like Mika Brzezinski.

(Sorry, I couldn't resist.)

[syringis]

51. I think her feet are bleeding...

Her face has been so much stretched that her feet are probably raw...

[hedda_foil]

48. Malaria, huh? Funny, I've always spelled it Mailordera.

[Iliyah]

5. I have no sympathy for Gen. Kelly nor anyone in t-rump's adminstration,

cabinet nor posts, and no sympathy for the GOPs. I do have sympathy for the USA tho, but not t-rump's supporters nor the GOP's supporters. I do feel a sadness for the world in whole.

[BigmanPigman]

8. Agree...this is their choice and they are getting paid for it as well.

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I feel sorry for you, me and any rational thinking person on the planet since he is NOT rational OR thinking. Get the straitjacket out NOW! They should have put one on him while he was seated in front of the world's eyes. Maybe then our allies would believe our country has come back to its senses.

[Ilsa]

49. Trump was their choice, now they are

getting ulcers over his willful ignorance, bullying personality, and mental illness. "Tough shit" is how I feel about Kelly, et al. Let them fix it, get rid of him (resign), or off themselves, but they should not be allowed to quit.

[mountain grammy]

12. Agree!

[Fritz Walter]

14. His supporters got their fill of red meat

At least for now. From what coverage I saw -- and no, I didn't watch it live and can't stomach watching recorded video -- Drumpf was speaking to them directly.

Honestly, I think the rest of the audience should have walked out the moment he started speaking. Respect is earned and he has done nothing to earn the respect of real world leaders.

[nadine_mn]

15. I disagree when it comes to Gen Kelly..would you rather

He not be in the Trump administration? Because if all the people with any type of moral integrity step aside, resign etc...then who is left?

Gen Kelly was extremely reluctant to take this position, in fact had declined in the past. I think (and I am not the only one who has argued this) that for some (esp military) they believe truly in duty to their country and that reining in Trump is part of that duty. You can have the administration filled with Trump sycophants like Gorka, Bannon, Scaramucci (who are gone) or actually have a few ppl with brains cells. The ones with a moral compass are few, and hardly anyone is left to take their place or you can have Sarah Palin, Arpaio, Sheriff Clarke, Chris Christie.

The man who was the ethics guy who resigned ...who has been on Maddow's show saying watch for Trump to skip over the talented next in line person for his former position and go for the one who is less qualified but more likely to do what Trump wants...and then Trump did that. And next thing you know the ethics office says hey it's ok to have lobbyists pay for the administrations legal fees.

You can't want safe guards preventing Trump to do everything he wants and then complain about the people who are sticking around trying to just that.

[Cosmocat]

18. Yep

Even if he might be fairly right wing leaning by nature, I do believe he knows how horrible 45 is, and is doing his best to manage it.

[Angry Dragon]

21. Good points

[Pacifist Patriot]

25. That's my take (and hope) on it.

[nocalflea]

34. We've certainly seen the dysfunction without him.

McMaster cleaned out the nest of Flynn loyalists and traitors from NSC as well.

[not fooled]

36. Yes

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Even if they are much too RW, guys like Kelly are no doubt patriots who love this country and recognize the existential threat dump poses. In the present situation, when we are basically living under an extremist RW coup, at least it can be hoped Kelly reins in dump's worst impulses, when and where he can.*



*by definition excluding the tweeting--no one apparently can exercise any restraint of that.

Edited to add: posted before seeing Darleen's post just below, which says substantially the same thing. I should read the entire thread first .

[Ilsa]

50. He and the rest of them should not be allowed to quit.

Their crime was in supporting the asshole in 2016. Their sentence should be keeping their jobs, keeping Il Douche from blowing up the world, until 45 is gone.

[DarleenMB]

31. Has it not occurred to any of you

that Kelly took this post to try and keep Trump on a short leash? That was my first thought when I heard he had taken the post and I still believe it. Since he took over Trump has been a bit more subdued most of the time unless he can slip away and pull his usual BS. As far as I'm concerned, Kelly is one of the few true patriots in that stinking morass of an "administration."

[niyad]

52. right there with you

[awesomerwb1]

6. Did Nikki get another

kiss on the lips this time? Might cheer her up.

[Vinca]

10. Kelly's thinking "Oh, my God. No."

And Melania's wondering if Don's check will clear this week.

[DinahMoeHum]

13. Hey, stupids, he's your baby. . .

(middle finger raised)

So STFU and Embrace. The. Suck.

[SunSeeker]

24. Right? Why are we feeling sorry for these fuckwads?

Have they quit? No. Have they denounced him? No. Every day they go to work and support him in every way. They are complicit.

[Ligyron]

16. "What have I gotten myself into?"

A steve Miller speech if I ever heard one.

[AJT]

19. Does anyone know who wrote the speach?

[awesomerwb1]

27. Take a wild guess....

here's a hint. It rhymers with "killer" .

[ProudMNDemocrat]

20. John Kelly's WTF moment. .........

I wonder if this man has taken to drinking yet. Nothing seems to be working.

[Miles Archer]

22. OK,someone had to post this, might as well be me

[leftstreet]

28. LOL

[Initech]

30. That's what we're all thinking, sir!

x 1000000000000

[Ellipsis]

33. You think Steve Miller will be gone shortly?

Kelly is going to kick him to the curb I'd bet after this.

[tclambert]

43. Not the pompatus of love!

[nocalflea]

35. Kelly didn't read the speech beforehand ?

Was this the speech Kelly was expecting ? Otherwise he had to know how bad it was gonna be.

[not fooled]

37. Is that Jane Seymour seated on Melania's other side?

Oh geez, don't tell me she's a dump bot. I've always enjoyed her work, barring the infomercials. Solitaire, no!!!

And Melania looks anesthetized. Prolly just extreme botoxing. Not trying to be catty--that's an extreme amount of whatever, and probably results from the depressing stress of being married to the most hated man on the planet.

[C_U_L8R]

38. I know the feeling

But geez Kelly, DO something about it.

[Baconator]

39. Such as...?

[Rhiannon12866]

40. It's not just him - or us. The entire world had a collective facepalm...

[Strelnikov_]

41. The saga of Jamie Lannister comes to mind . . .

[Calista241]

42. i don't see why.

he knew exactly what was going to be in this speech.

[bdamomma]

45. well there

goes our country continuing to go down the toilet. This man needs to be removed. We are moving in a dangerous direction.

[Skittles]

47. Melanie is starting to look like a pillow