Pity Reince Priebus, or his replacement General John Kelly?
I was channel surfing this afternoon and I landed on CNN just in time to hear Wolf Blitzer invite now former White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus to phone in and be interviewed. I didn't think he would actually do that, but apparently he did.
The announcement was that Mr. Priebus resigned, but the bottom line is that the Cheeto-in-Chief "...wanted to go in a different direction." Prior to taking on the position as WH Chief of Staff, Mr. Priebus had been the Chair of the Republican National Committee since 2011. He was, and probably remains a consummate party insider. Failing in his attempt to win elected office, he ran for and won a position in the Wisconsin Republican Party, and then in 2009 was hired as the RNC General Counsel.
His replacement, retired Marine Corps General John F. Kelly is not exactly the Washington outsider one might think. After graduating from the National War College in 1995 and being promoted to Colonel, Kelly did a four year stint in the Commandant's Congressional Liaison office. That's the office that deals with inquiries from members of Congress to the Marine Corps. He would go on to serve later as the Commandant's Legislative Assistant as a one-star general. He also served 18 months as the Senior Military Assistant to the Secretary of Defense. He is very familiar with how things work in Washington, D.C. His last billet prior to retirement was as the Commander, United States Southern Command. The same job held by General H. Norman Schwarzkopf when he led the allies during the first Gulf War.
He has a very different management style than that of Reince Priebus. But does that really matter? He is working for the most disloyal, untrustworthy person to ever occupy the Oval Office. To quote the late Leona Helmsley, "I wouldn't believe Donald Trump if his tongue was notarized."
Katie Walsh and Sean Spicer are people who came to the White House with Reince Priebus and they are also no longer there. Anyone whose last name is not Trump is at risk, possibly even baby-faced Jared Kushner; of being let go.
A reminder that MAGA is not an acronym for Make America Great Again, but for this:
The announcement was that Mr. Priebus resigned, but the bottom line is that the Cheeto-in-Chief "...wanted to go in a different direction." Prior to taking on the position as WH Chief of Staff, Mr. Priebus had been the Chair of the Republican National Committee since 2011. He was, and probably remains a consummate party insider. Failing in his attempt to win elected office, he ran for and won a position in the Wisconsin Republican Party, and then in 2009 was hired as the RNC General Counsel.
His replacement, retired Marine Corps General John F. Kelly is not exactly the Washington outsider one might think. After graduating from the National War College in 1995 and being promoted to Colonel, Kelly did a four year stint in the Commandant's Congressional Liaison office. That's the office that deals with inquiries from members of Congress to the Marine Corps. He would go on to serve later as the Commandant's Legislative Assistant as a one-star general. He also served 18 months as the Senior Military Assistant to the Secretary of Defense. He is very familiar with how things work in Washington, D.C. His last billet prior to retirement was as the Commander, United States Southern Command. The same job held by General H. Norman Schwarzkopf when he led the allies during the first Gulf War.
He has a very different management style than that of Reince Priebus. But does that really matter? He is working for the most disloyal, untrustworthy person to ever occupy the Oval Office. To quote the late Leona Helmsley, "I wouldn't believe Donald Trump if his tongue was notarized."
Katie Walsh and Sean Spicer are people who came to the White House with Reince Priebus and they are also no longer there. Anyone whose last name is not Trump is at risk, possibly even baby-faced Jared Kushner; of being let go.
A reminder that MAGA is not an acronym for Make America Great Again, but for this:
posted by me at 6:24 PM
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