John Kelly

Former White House chief of staff John Kelly has reportedly offered some very harsh criticism of Donald Trump in private, telling friends that the president is the “most flawed person” he has ever known. As CNN reported, the retired United States Marine Corps general has attacked what he sees as dishonesty from Trump, calling him […]

Former Trump White House chief of staff, retired General John Kelly, participated in a live interview with Anthony Scaramucci on Friday. Scaramucci served as the White House communications director briefly under President Donald Trump. During their discussion, Kelly admitted that he agreed with retired General James Mattis and his comments about the president’s recent decision […]

John Kelly, who served as Donald Trump’s chief of staff for 18 months before being fired, has not authored a book since leaving the administration. Nor did he testify in the president’s impeachment trial. But on Wednesday, the retired four-star general delivered a paid speech in which he confirmed the central allegation at the heart […]

John Kelly, Donald Trump’s former chief of staff, expressed strong support for the media and encouraged people to get their news from more than just Fox News. In an apparent contradiction to Trump’s own attacks on the media, Kelly told an audience at a lecture at Drew University that they need to be sure that […]

The impeachment probe into Donald Trump comes under a year after former White House Chief of Staff Gen. John Kelly left the president’s administration. Trump’s actions are under inquiry following his controversial phone call with Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky, in which he appeared to be using military aid to get dirt on Joe Biden, as […]

Former White House chief of staff John Kelly had to mute the line during Donald Trump’s phone calls with world leaders and urge the president not to share closely held U.S. secrets, a new report claims. Trump is under considerable pressure amid reports that his White House sought to conceal some conversations with world leaders […]

Former White House chief of staff John Kelly said that it was difficult working in an environment where the president employs his family members. While he didn’t mention Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner by name, he did talk about Trump’s family members “who work in the White House,” and he clarified that he didn’t mean […]

Former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly recently joined the board of directors for Caliburn International, a company which operates shelters for unaccompanied migrant children picked up at the border between Mexico and the United States, as The Inquisitr detailed. Kelly, prior to joining the Trump administration, served on the board of advisors for […]

Former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly recently joined the board of directors for Caliburn International, a company which operates shelters for unaccompanied migrant children picked up at the border between Mexico and the United States, CBS News reports. Caliburn International is the parent company of Comprehensive Health Services, which operates a number of […]

Kirstjen Nielsen, the secretary of Homeland Security and the official often associated with the Trump administration’s controversial policy of separating families at the border, resigned Sunday, following a meeting with the president. Per The Cox Media Group, Nielsen’s dismissal was announced in a tweet by the president. Trump thanked Nielsen for her serve and announced […]

Former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly told a panel at Duke University on Wednesday that working for Donald Trump was the “least enjoyable job” he’s ever had — and that he would have worked in the same role for Hillary Clinton if she’d won the election and then asked him for help. As […]

Former Trump White House chief of staff John Kelly has joined four other former secretaries of homeland security in writing an open letter to Donald Trump and Congress to urge them to end the government shutdown as soon as possible. The former cabinet members want the Department of Homeland Security fully funded. WRAL says that […]

John Kelly spent 17 months as the president’s right-hand man serving as the White House Chief of Staff. Although he is currently one of the longest-serving members of Trump’s inner circle, he is expected to give up his post by the end of the month. Prior to leaving the high-profile job, Kelly opened up in […]

White House counselor Kellyanne Conway is on the defense after outgoing Chief of Staff John Kelly claimed that President Donald Trump gave up on his plans to build a physical wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. Conway claims that the argument over a wall, fence or barrier is “semantic,” and that the government will do whatever […]

John Kelly is leaving his job as White House Chief of Staff and it looks like he wants to clear some things up before he goes. In a new interview with the Los Angeles Times, Kelly says that Trump’s border wall actually isn’t a wall, a statement that indicates clear discrepancies in the language used […]

It’s only been a few days since Donald Trump announced that his chief of staff, John Kelly, is set to depart from the White House, yet the president finds himself taking to Twitter once again, this time to announce that Interior Secretary will leave the administration at the end of this year. “Secretary of the […]

Donald Trump laid to rest the speculations surrounding his next chief of staff on Friday by tweeting that Mick Mulvaney, the Office of Management and Budget Director, would replace the outgoing John Kelly when he departs the White House in January. “Mick has done an outstanding job while in the Administration,” tweeted the president. “I […]

President Donald Trump’s search for a new chief of staff may be narrowing — and it may include a former political rival. Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie met with Trump on Thursday evening to discuss the position, according to reporting from Bloomberg. The two met while first lady Melania Trump welcomed guests to a […]

Despite blasting through two chiefs of staff already and being rejected by his reported first choice replacement, President Donald Trump continues to insist that he is having no trouble at all finding a new top official to stand by his side. In what seems to be a presidential protocol for Trump, America’s top leader took […]

An ad posted on the Washington, D.C., pages for Craigslist mocks in a humorous fashion the difficulties that President Donald Trump is having in searching for a permanent chief of staff. Following John Kelly’s announcement this month that he’d be leaving his position by the end of the year, most expected that Nick Ayers, current […]

After it was announced late last week that current White House Chief of Staff John Kelly would be departing by the end of this year, many began to speculate who President Donald Trump would pick to replace him. A leading contender for the role, however, has just bowed out. Nick Ayers, who currently serves as […]

The impending departure of Donald Trump’s chief of staff is setting the White House into chaos, a correspondent claims. On Saturday, Trump confirmed reports that John Kelly would be leaving the White House before the end of the year. Kelly had long been described as a steadying force in Trump’s White House, often reining Trump […]

After days of speculation that chief of staff John Kelly would be leaving the White House, President Donald Trump confirmed these rumors on Saturday, December 8, BuzzFeed News is reporting. “John Kelly will be leaving toward the end of the year,” Trump said to reporters. He also referred to Kelly as a “great guy” despite […]

White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, who is reported not to be on speaking terms with Donald Trump anymore, was interviewed by special counsel Robert Mueller’s team as part of the Russia probe, CNN reported on Friday. Earlier today, per the Inquisitr, reports emerged that Kelly, whose relationship with Trump has apparently taken a […]

John Kelly is expected to resign as President Donald Trump’s chief of staff in the next few days as the relationship between the two is no longer seen as “sustainable,” two sources told CNN Friday morning. Sources with knowledge of the inner workings of the West Wing told the network that Trump and Kelly have […]

Stretching the limits of his constitutional powers, President Donald Trump recently authorized the troops deployed to the U.S.-Mexico border to use lethal force, but it is not only the public and the media that stands opposed to this development. According to a new Politico report, the West Wing appears to be imploding over the order […]

In a truly shocking and unprecedented turn of events, the White House authorized the use of “lethal force” at the Mexican border, per a cabinet order signed on Wednesday by Chief of Staff John Kelly, as previously reported by the Inquisitr. This is terrifying news for those who imagine hundreds of immigrants, including women and […]

Troops sent to the border have been authorized to use lethal force to stop immigrants from entering the country, according to the New York Post. Legal experts say this is a potential violation of the Posse Comitatus Act, which prohibits the use of military force being used for civilian law enforcement. The cabinet order was […]

President Trump is mulling a high-level cabinet shakeup, with White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen potentially on the chopping block, as reported by the Wall Street Journal. Kelly was at the center of a high-profile blowup with John Bolton at the White House a few weeks ago, reportedly […]

Despite what Donald Trump may claim, the White House under him appears to be out of control. In yet another example of the chaos that has reigned in the Oval Office since Trump took over, the New York Times reports that Chief of Staff John Kelly and former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski got into […]

Anthony Scaramucci worked in the White House for about a week-and-a-half as Communications Director. Now he’s making the rounds of various media outlets to promote his new book, Trump, The Blue-Collar President. He appeared on Meet the Press Sunday to do just that and had plenty to say about the man who fired him — […]

Tensions inside the White House have reportedly boiled over, with John Kelly and John Bolton getting into an “explosive” and profane shouting match about Donald Trump’s approach to immigration and the performance of a top cabinet member. As Bloomberg News reported, the argument took place in the Oval Office on Thursday over immigration and border […]

President Donald Trump’s Chief of Staff, John Kelly, allegedly referred to Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren as “an impolite arrogant woman” in an email that followed a contentious phone call between Kelly when he was Homeland Security Secretary, and the senator, as reported by Business Insider. In an email dated from February, 2017, Kelly opened up […]

President Donald Trump gave a vote of confidence to his chief of staff John Kelly despite persistent rumors that he may be fired or move on to another job, according to New York magazine interview released this week. In the interview, Trump praised Kelly, a retired U.S. Marine Corps general who first worked in the […]

The anonymous author of a New York Times op-ed piece last month who claimed to be part of a secret resistance to undermine President Donald Trump’s agenda remained anonymous after the White House went on the hunt to identify the writer, according to The Associated Press Friday. The op-ed piece was the hottest news of […]

Now that Donald Trump has determined that the only people he can trust are his family members, daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, have taken over the mole hunt to find out the identity of the person who wrote the New York Times op-ed identifying himself as the resistance. Vanity Fair says that […]

Omarosa may have been aiming to stir up trouble by releasing a secret recording of White House Chief of Staff John Kelly discussing her departure in the Situation Room, but instead she may have stirred up charges against herself, a top Republican claims. On Sunday, the former adviser to Donald Trump and villain from his […]

Omarosa Manigault made an appearance on NBC’s Meet the Press Sunday and shared an audio recording of what she says was her conversation with Chief of Staff John Kelly in which he fired her. Manigault first came to know Donald Trump as a contestant on his reality show, The Apprentice. She was a vocal supporter […]

Thursday, the Wall Street Journal reported that Chief of Staff John Kelly will be out of the White House by the end of July. The two people believed to be the strongest candidates to replace him at this time are Mick Mulvaney, who currently heads the Office of Management and Budget and serves as acting […]

John Kelly, Donald Trump’s chief of staff, may be stepping down, as early as this summer. “President Donald Trump is consulting with advisers about whom he should tap as his next chief of staff, with John Kelly expected to depart the administration as early as this summer, possibly soon, according to people familiar with the […]

Donald Trump may have lost one of his best protections against impeachment, with a report claiming that Chief of Staff John Kelly has given up trying to cover Trump politically. Kelly had been seen as an important force in the White House, taking over for Reince Priebus and instituting a tight control over Trump’s actions […]

Andrew Giuliani, son of Trump advisor Rudy Giuliani, has lost his access to the West Wing after White House Chief of Staff John Kelly pulled his blue staff pass which allowed him access to the president. Kelly was reportedly given an order to promote the younger Giuliani to a special assistant to the president post, […]

An undocumented mother from the Honduras entered the U.S. illegally and was waiting in a detention center for federal prosecution. She sobbed Tuesday when she told an attorney that federal authorities took her child from her while she was breastfeeding. When she resisted, she was handcuffed. Miguel A. Nogueras is an assistant federal public defender […]

White House Chief of Staff John Kelly is seemingly unhappy with his job. According to a report by the New York Times, he told a group of group of senators last week that the White House is “a miserable place to work.” Kelly is currently accompanying President Donald Trump to Singapore for the summit with […]

President Donald Trump refuses to follow security measures for his phones because he finds them “inconvenient,” according to a report from Politico. The president uses two phones. One is used only for making calls, and the other has Twitter and some news apps on it. He is not following security protocol on either of them. […]

Donald Trump, on Sunday, called a Washington Post story about White House Chief of Staff John Kelly a “hit job,” accusing the newspaper of being “more fiction than fact,” The Hill is reporting. In a Sunday morning tweet, the president took exception to a Saturday report, which posited that Kelly’s influence in Trump’s White House […]

John Kelly reportedly blew up at Donald Trump in an explosive Oval Office fight that led to Trump apparently backing down, a new report claims. There have been increasing rumors of tension between Trump and his chief of staff, including several reports that Kelly has been on the verge of quitting. That nearly happened last […]

On Sunday, three administration officials confirmed that President Trump is planning on firing Secretary of Veteran Affairs David Shulkin, the Associated Press reports. This news comes after weeks of speculation on Shulkin’s possible firing due to his alleged spending abuses and overall corruption. While the firing is not a done deal, it would be in […]

Ivanka Trump is said to be unhappy with the situation in the West Wing since Chief of Staff John Kelly has reduced security clearances for her and husband, Jared Kushner. A new report by Vanity Fair reveals that her end in the White House is in the near future. The first daughter and President Donald […]

According to the New York Times, the Trump administration revolving door has never been so busy as while some Trump appointees are threatening to quit, others allegedly are being forced out behind the scenes. Mark Landler for the NYT stated that while Donald Trump is telling Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump to stay in the […]