Trumps lack of discipline leaves new chief of staff frustrated and dismayed

[CatWoman]

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BEDMINSTER, N.J. — As the new White House chief of staff, John F. Kelly routes all calls to and from President Trump through the White House switchboard, where he can sign off on them. He stanches the flow of information reaching the president’s desk. And he requires that all staff members — including Trump’s relatives — go through him to reach the president.

But none of those attempts at discipline mattered this week. Instead, Kelly stood to the side as Trump upended his new chief of staff’s carefully scripted plans — pinballing through an impromptu and combative news conference in New York in which he inflamed another self-inflicted controversy by comparing the actions of white supremacist groups at a deadly rally in Charlottesville last weekend with the counterprotesters who came to oppose them.

The uproar — which has consumed not only the White House but the Republican Party — left Kelly deeply frustrated and dismayed just over two weeks into his job, said people familiar with his thinking. The episode also underscored the difficult challenges that even a four-star general faces in instilling a sense of order around Trump, whose first instinct when cornered is to lash out, even self-destructively.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-lack-of-discipline-leaves-new-chief-of-staff-frustrated-and-dismayed/2017/08/16/9aec8e16-82b8-11e7-82a4-920da1aeb507_story.html?utm_term=.1bb1556cca13

[Doc Coco]

1. Rats. Sinking Ship. Jump.

'nuff said.

[bearsfootball516]

2. I don't feel bad

For a single person in this administration. They knew what they were getting into.

[Warpy]

5. I'm not sure they did

Demented Don can pour on the charm when he has to. They probably thought his erratic speech and worse tweets were just a put on, red meat for morons. Now that they've been there for a while, they realize what they saw is what they got, a seriously disturbed narcissist with only a thin veneer of charm.

[Leghorn21]

3. Ummm, yeah, duh. Well - we'll see....meantime, thing 1: Lawrence O says a source close to

LOSER 45 describes him as feeling like "a caged animal" under Kelly's watchful eye - our first US president, says Lawrence, who has ever been thus described...

thing 2: whodat in the above photo? Not Landowsky, right - ? Secret Service? Very buttoned-up and squared away, ain't he?!

[dixiegrrrrl]

17. Could that be Miller? Weird camera angle. n/t

[CanonRay]

4. That's a "why did I take this f'ing job" look.

[Snackshack]

6. Well.

Everything I have read or heard about Mr. Kelly has been positive in nature but he had a choice to accept or decline this job so...

Unless he wants to end up like Colin Powell who had a long and distinguished career only to remembered for his UN speech on Iraq I would suggest he resign.

[tblue37]

13. He has been eagerly and brutally going after undocumented immigrants --even the

"good hombres"" as Homeland Security chief.

He is not against most of Trump's destructive policies, just against his lack of discipline and decorum.

[spooky3]

7. Kelly ignored Maya Angelou's advice and is

Now paying the price.

[Generic Other]

8. He looks like he's shaking his head

He's given up. Will he throw in the towel or will he snap Trump's fat ass with the towel?

Hey Cat!!!

[C_U_L8R]

9. "How do I get out of this in one piece"

Dude, just quit.

[krispos42]

10. I'm shocked

[Solly Mack]

11. You could see Kelly visibly shrink during the presser.

Hs body went from a ramrod straight military stance to recoiling in upon itself.

Post Traumatic Trump Disorder

[FSogol]

19. I think Kelly's hair was black when the "presser" started.

[lindysalsagal]

21. He'd better quit before it all falls out.....

Why would anyone sign up with this jackass???

[cyberswede]

12. "frustrated and dismayed"

Big whoop. He should be utterly shocked, appalled, disgusted, and ashamed.

[hatrack]

14. "It was on fire when I lay down on it."

[dixiegrrrrl]

18. I wish we had like buttons for comments. n/t

[Major Nikon]

15. Makes it sound as if he didn't know what he was getting into

If he's that stupid he deserves Trump. If not he shouldn't be frustrated and dismayed as he should have known what he was getting into.

[Nay]

16. So he took this job not knowing that his boss was a complete fucking fruitcake? Really?

Dogs, cats, 3-yr-olds and fish in the fishtank knew he was crazy on the campaign trail. Why did you join the crazy train?

[Hassin Bin Sober]

20. Whoda thunk a spoiled former trust fund baby man-child would be undisciplined.