White House Ally: 'It’s Like Kelly Views Trump As A Mushroom'
- 6 years ago
Reports about tensions between Chief of Staff John Kelly and President Trump have been swirling since Kelly took the position, and Trump has continued to insist that everything’s fine.
Reports about tensions between White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and President Trump have been swirling since Kelly took the position, and Trump has continued to insist that everything's fine. According to a source Vanity Fair describes as "Republican close to the White House," things are not, in fact, okay.
That individual rather colorfully summed up the situation, telling the publication, "It's like Kelly views Trump as a mushroom. He wants to keep him in the dark and feed him a bunch of s**t." Since assuming his post, Kelly has reportedly worked to limit both the people and information that reach the president in order to establish more structure.
However, according to a Wall Street Journal piece from December, many friends of the Trump family have managed to bypass the flow of information controls exercised by Kelly by simply contacting Melania directly.
One of them told the publication, "If I don't want to wait 24 hours for a call from the president, getting to Melania is much easier."
Based on another recent Vanity Fair article, the situation between the two has since intensified, with Trump now talking about finding a new chief of staff.
Nonetheless, publicly, the president continues to express confidence in Kelly.
"Thank you to General John Kelly, who is doing a fantastic job, and all of the Staff and others in the White House, for a job well done," Trump wrote on Twitter in late January. "Long hours and Fake reporting makes your job more difficult, but it is always great to WIN, and few have won more than us!"
Reports about tensions between White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and President Trump have been swirling since Kelly took the position, and Trump has continued to insist that everything's fine. According to a source Vanity Fair describes as "Republican close to the White House," things are not, in fact, okay.
That individual rather colorfully summed up the situation, telling the publication, "It's like Kelly views Trump as a mushroom. He wants to keep him in the dark and feed him a bunch of s**t." Since assuming his post, Kelly has reportedly worked to limit both the people and information that reach the president in order to establish more structure.
However, according to a Wall Street Journal piece from December, many friends of the Trump family have managed to bypass the flow of information controls exercised by Kelly by simply contacting Melania directly.
One of them told the publication, "If I don't want to wait 24 hours for a call from the president, getting to Melania is much easier."
Based on another recent Vanity Fair article, the situation between the two has since intensified, with Trump now talking about finding a new chief of staff.
Nonetheless, publicly, the president continues to express confidence in Kelly.
"Thank you to General John Kelly, who is doing a fantastic job, and all of the Staff and others in the White House, for a job well done," Trump wrote on Twitter in late January. "Long hours and Fake reporting makes your job more difficult, but it is always great to WIN, and few have won more than us!"