Trump names John Kelly new White House chief of staff

[davsand]

Source: CNBC

President Donald Trump on Friday tweeted that John Kelly would take over as White House chief of staff, replacing Reince Priebus.

Priebus, 45, became a target of Trump's ire shortly into his term as White House chief of staff.

Read more: http://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/28/john-kelly-to-replace-priebus-as-white-house-chief-of-staff-trump-tweet.html

[Stonepounder]

1. Here's the Tweet:

Link to tweet

[Bernardo de La Paz]

44. Stupid Trump (Republicon) now has another hole to fill & ever fewer willing to step into his sewer.

[missingthebigdog]

2. Sure. Why not.

Who is surprised?

[bettyellen]

3. I'm not even sure who Kelly is, this is getting hard to follow.

[Leghorn21]

6. Was head of homeland security:

[bettyellen]

8. Oh jeeze- wasn't he disgraced? I can't believe he's back! WTF? We're going full authoritarian...

Now some people are going to find out what that really means.

[Leghorn21]

9. Honestly don't recall, but I don't think so...anyway, here's part ofhis wiki page - already changed!

John Francis Kelly (born May 11, 1950) is the White House Chief of Staff for U.S. President Donald Trump. He is a retired United States Marine Corps general and the former commander of United States Southern Command, the Unified Combatant Command responsible for American military operations in Central America, South America and the Caribbean. Kelly previously served as the commanding general of the Multi-National Force—West in Iraq from February 2008 to February 2009, and as the commander of Marine Forces Reserve and Marine Forces North in October 2009.[2] Kelly succeeded General Douglas M. Fraser as commander of U.S. Southern Command on November 19, 2012.[3] Kelly was succeeded by Navy Admiral Kurt W. Tidd on January 14, 2016.

John Kelly
John Kelly official DHS portrait.jpg
28th White House Chief of Staff
Incumbent
Assumed office
July 28, 2017
President Donald Trump
Preceded by Reince Priebus
5th United States Secretary of Homeland Security
In office
January 20, 2017 – July 28, 2017
President Donald Trump
Deputy Elaine Duke
Preceded by Jeh Johnson
Commander of United States Southern Command
In office
November 19, 2012 – January 16, 2016
President Barack Obama
Preceded by Douglas Fraser
Succeeded by Kurt Tidd
Personal details
Born John Francis Kelly
May 11, 1950 (age 67)
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Political party Independent

[bettyellen]

17. Why thank you! I didn't think he'd move him out of HS- who will do that now? Will we have to confirm

Someone new for DHS?

[Leghorn21]

19. How about the King o' Flair?

HOLY COW - he's already actually in homeland sec!!

David Clarke, the controversial sheriff of Wisconsin’s Milwaukee County and a conservative media darling, is joining the Trump administration as an assistant secretary in the Department of Homeland Security. Clarke announced the move in a local radio interview Wednesday afternoon.

The hiring comes as public scrutiny of the jail he oversees in Milwaukee reaches a fever pitch. There are about 3,200 county jails in the United States, but few have drawn as much recent attention as the one he supervises. Four inmates died while in its custody last year, and another sued the jail after her baby died shortly after birth. But local prosecutors have focused their attention on the fate of Terrill Thomas, one of the four, who died of dehydration in solitary confinement. He was 38 years old.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/05/sheriff-clarke-escape-hatch/525195/

THIRD EDIT - NO HE'S NOT. He rescinded his application or whatever (was busted plagiarizing his thesis - he was finished)

[bettyellen]

21. LOL it could happen! Anything could happen.

[Fritz Walter]

46. Bite your tongue!

Or whatever the digital equivalent is these days. Drumpf's desperate enough to scrape the bottom of the septic tank.

Up to now, we thought "Heck of a job Brownie!" was the worst possible person to take charge of DHS! Leave it to Cheetolini to dig deeper.

[haele]

15. No, that was Flynn and son.

However, Kelly is a "hard ass/letter of the order" type that might or might not be an Oafkeeper. He's supposed to be fair but strict - but he never struck me as imaginative; one of those "tactical" thinking Marine Generals vice a strategic thinking. Give him a task or target, he'll get his Marines to do the job. He's not a waffler and commits 100% to his tasks. However, he doesn't tend to think much past the task on hand.
For example, he thinks "force-feeding" is humane if someone goes on a hunger strike, without considering larger ramifications of why the situation happened, or what else might be done.

He's also against women in the military, and thinks nothing with just replacing a "warfighter" (gods, how I hate that term!) for the next "Uh-Rah" warm body if the person becomes "damaged" or shows weakness under a difficult combat situation instead of perhaps rethinking tactics and working with what one has for an optimal outcome for the situation as a whole...

I'm almost of a mind he would have done more damage to innocents and the spirit of law in Homeland Security than he would at Chief of Staff. A lot depends on how other Cabinet and Agency Heads shake up, also.

Haele

[bettyellen]

20. Thanks for refreshing my memory- what an odd pick.

[sinkingfeeling]

42. Thanks. I thought John Kelly was another of 45's aliases, like John Barron.

[mr_lebowski]

57. Wonder if he is any relation to Michael Kelly ... lol ...

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0446672/mediaviewer/rm3578105344

[oxbow]

4. Ha! Called it last night...

Someone had to pay for the failure of the GOP's wealthcare bill

[marybourg]

5. The linked article had some info on Priebus,

but not a word of description on John Kelly. Who is he? Even CNBC doesn't seem to know. Probably some hapless guy who was walking by the W.H. when Priebus was kicked out the door.

On edit: Oh I see. He's a Great American and a General/Secretary. Of the United Nations? That's the only position I know of which has General Secretary as its title.

[rsdsharp]

7. Kelly is, or was

Secretary of Homeland Security. Who will fill that post?

[marybourg]

10. I see, thanx. The W.H. staff is going to

love working under a General! Don't ask me how I know.

[TNNurse]

32. Since Generals are used to people doing what they say without question....

wonder what will happen not only with the staff but with Trump himself. He is not known for taking suggestions and Kelly is used to giving orders. Wonder how Kelly will react to Scaramucci.

[marybourg]

35. What a duo they'll be!! nt

[LuckyLib]

38. This should be very interesting!

[TEB]

54. Probably as a leech suck ass

[LeftInTX]

11. Kelly was head of Homeland Security - this morning!!!

I emailed one of my senators yesterday about the proposed border wall and specifically mentioned DHS Director Gen John Kelly.

[6000eliot]

12. One venal moron OUT. One venal moron IN.

As my nephew once told me, "Circle of life, Dude."

[Honeycombe8]

13. MSNBC-This was a week-long mugging, followed by a murder. A "Silence of the Lambs" scenario.

You could imagine Trump saying, "I ate him with some fava beans and a nice Chianti."

Brutal. Firing, Trump-style.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

14. Rep. Barbara Lee: "By putting Gen. John Kelly in charge, Pres. trump is

militarizing the White House & putting our executive branch in the hands of an extremist."

[LovingA2andMI]

18. Exactly....

N/T...

[louis-t]

34. That was my thought. A little under the radar

militarizing of the staff. Look for more. Dum Dum loves his generals, though he thinks he knows more than them.

[japple]

52. "My generals" indeed! Wonder if their allegiance is to tRUMP or to the

United States of America?

[janx]

16. SCARAMOUCHE, SCARAMOUCHE!

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

22. While Kelly may be an improvement you're still going to need a lotof this

[kimbutgar]

50. Love this pic!

[EllieBC]

23. So could this be what causes the GOP to finally stop soiling themselves

when they think of "Trump voters" and finally get behind getting that clown parading as a president out?

[George II]

24. The Mooch strikes! Guess they don't want a "f-ing paranoid schizophrenic, a paranoiac"....

....hanging around the white house. Guess the Mooch won't be "cock-blocked" anymore.

This is getting more and more like the Godfather or Goodfellas - the only thing missing is people getting whacked.

[DesertRat]

31. So far, anyway

the only thing missing is people getting whacked.

[Squinch]

37. Unless you count the poor dead Russian guys.

[Big_K]

25. I'll take N. Korea in the next 40 hours in the "diversion war" pool.

[lunasun]

43. I'll go with a long shot . Venezuela . It has oil and is in turmoil . Lots of prop on conservative

media the last few days I noticed and US sanctions plus the us has ordered embassy families out of the country as of yesterday
It would be an easier victory perhaps
The Maduro regime is already tottering, struggling to meet its financial obligations, feed its people and pay its oil workers, soldiers and police officers. Additional American sanctions just placed
which could send the country to move further toward dictatorship and toward an even closer embrace of China and Russia. The result could be more violent strife or even a military coup
Trump and oil buddies could try to weasel in and also prop up trumps failings here at home

Kelly was in SA post and has a long history with Maduro

http://mouqawamahmusic.net/trump-tillerson-kelly-war-on-venezuela-begins-us-regime-puts-new-sanctions-on-bolivarian-vp-tareck-el-aissami-falsely-labels-him-drug-kingpin/

[Eliot Rosewater]

26. He quit, watch shit head take credit for firing him.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

27. Does Scaramouche report to Kelly?

Or is there still a strange reporting structure in the White House?

[Ford_Prefect]

28. The Fifth Reich is about to begin in earnest. Keep an eye out for the burning "Bundestag".

[SCVDem]

45. Not the Reichstatd?

Dump is definitely burning down the house.

[Ford_Prefect]

58. I refer to the end of the modern Federal era. Smoke gets in your eyes, no?

The Bundestag was established by chapter III of the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany[1] (Constitution) in 1949 as one of the legislative bodies of Germany and thus the historical successor to the earlier Reichstag.

[SCVDem]

60. Smoke got in my head.

Tunnel vision happens too.

I didn't think post war. Oops!

[PearliePoo2]

29. I'm suspicious of ANYONE who would join this cluster-fuck.

[DesertRat]

30. Preibus can join Spicey on Dancing with the Stars

Following in the footsteps of the Sec. of Energy

[BeyondGeography]

33. He's sending in the Marines

[Retrograde]

36. Kelly? Has Trump run out of suck-ups

and has to recycle the current ones? And does this mean that Kelly will have two jobs now? Or do we get a new DHS secretary? Has anyone seen Giuliani recently?

[IronLionZion]

39. I so hope Scaramucci fights with Kelly

just to find out what happens when that asshole tries to bully a Marine Corps General

[LovingA2andMI]

40. Now This Is Interesting....

Link to tweet

[Phoenix61]

41. Wonder if Twitler realizes Kelly still has to comply

with the UCMJ, or if he cares for that matter.

[SergeStorms]

56. Please....

Trump isn't aware that HE has to comply with the Constitution or Bill of Rights. If Kelly doesn't do as Twitler wants, HE'LL be out the door. And I think Trump would LOVE to "fire" a GENERAL! Trump would get wood over that, if it was at all possible for him to GET wood anymore. He's as impotent in real life as he is in the White House.

Military justice isn't going to stand in Trump's way. He really thinks he's King, or a dictator. This is why he'll never finish his term as President. He's a wild card that NO ONE can control, not even himself.

[Fritz Walter]

47. It's a Dung Beetle's Life

And the fact that bugs are speaking with a Russian accent is entirely coincidental. Or is it?

[SergeStorms]

48. Yet another failure by.......

the Failure in Chief. If you choose GOOD people in the first place, you don't have problems like this. Problem is, Trump wouldn't know what a GOOD person looks or acts like. Trump knows trash, and that's all. Garbage in, garbage out. Trump thinks GOOD things are covered in gold, and that's the only measurement he's aware of.

[kimbutgar]

49. This appointment tells me he is preparing us for a war

By bringing in a miltary man we are getting a heads up that chump wants a war to cement his hold on our country. Everyone rallies around a war time President. REmember GW Bush.

Holy shit we are now going to be in deep do-do soon.

[Iliyah]

51. t-rump is going to undercut and back stab him as well.

As for a "major" conflict, I pray for no, but alas, t-rump has some extremely violent thoughts. Taking RP out of the equation and the possibility of Sessions as well, t-rump won't have to answer to congress (so he thinks).

[TEB]

53. Kelly will not put up with bull from pimples like scary mooch

[paulkienitz]

55. good riddance to herr Reinhold Priebus

In a sense he was kind of a perfect fit, being a smaller dip from the same vat of slime as Mr. Trump. But the sooner we rinse his stank away, the quicker we can turn the hose on the main puddle.

[bora13]

59. Rival rinse repeat

Rival Reince repeat