Trump being Trump

Lashing out at John Kelly.

I know John Kelly. He was with me — didn’t do a good job, had no temperament — and, ultimately, he was petered out.

  NYT

He had no temperament? Was he dead?

He got, he was exhausted. This man was totally exhausted. He wasn’t even able to function in the last number of months.

That's what Trump does to everybody who tries to work with him.  That's what he does to us all.  Exhausts us.

He was sort of a tough guy. By the time he got eaten up in this world. It’s a different world than he was used to. He was unable to function. And I told him, “John, you’re going to have to go. Please give me a letter of resignation.” And we did that. And now he goes out and bear — bad mouths.

Did he try to say "bears false witness against me"?

Now there are people that are jealous. There are people that are upset that they’re not here anymore. There are people — we’ve done an incredible job. The virus came in, and now we’re doing an incredible job again.

Turns on a dime. From Kelly to his own imagined great success.

We’re going to build it up bigger than it was before the virus came in. But I don’t know that it was him. I haven’t seen that. I mean, I see anonymous. But it could have been a guy like a John Kelly because he was — just so you understand.

And right back again. Keep up, people.

He was a very — you look at some of his news conferences, what happened to him — he got eaten alive. He was unable to handle the pressure of this job. This job was a tough job. Mark Meadows is doing a great job. But Kelly was unable to do that.

I imagine Kelly is eaten up alright.

John F. Kelly left the White House barely on speaking terms with President Trump. In the months since, Mr. Kelly, a retired four-star general and former White House chief of staff, has stayed mostly silent as other senior military figures have publicly and harshly criticized the president.

Much to the consternation of friends and associates who have been pushing him to speak out, Mr. Kelly continued his silence on Friday about a report in The Atlantic that the president had privately referred to American troops killed in combat as “losers” and “suckers.”

Mr. Kelly refused on-the-record interview requests about his recollection of comments Mr. Trump had reportedly made when Mr. Kelly was with him on a 2018 trip to France.

So why did Trump attack him?

According to the report, the president said that he had decided against visiting a cemetery for American soldiers killed in World War I because “it’s filled with losers,” and that Marines slain in combat at Belleau Wood were “suckers” for getting killed.

The article also reported that during a 2017 visit to Arlington National Cemetery, Mr. Trump and Mr. Kelly stopped to pay respects at the grave of Mr. Kelly’s son, Second Lt. Robert Kelly, a Marine who was killed at age 29 in Afghanistan in 2010.

“I don’t get it. What was in it for them?” the magazine reported that Mr. Trump had said to Mr. Kelly about his son’s service and sacrifice.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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