Kelly in charge at White House
Washington: Firmly taking charge in an unruly White House, former General John Kelly moved in Monday as President Donald Trump’s new Chief of Staff and immediately made sure that Trump’s profanityspouting new communications director was shown the door, ignominiously ousted after less than two weeks on the job.
It was the latest head-snapping sequence of events at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, but Mr Trump dismissed any talk of disarray. He insisted in a tweet there was “No WH chaos,” then followed up in the evening with a satisfied “great day at the White House.”
Aiming to instill some discipline in the White House, Mr Kelly showed Anthony Scaramucci the door just days after the new communications director had unleashed an expletive-laced tirade against senior staff members that included vulgar broadsides at then-chief of staff Reince Priebus. In short order, Mr Priebus was pushed aside and replaced by Mr Kelly, whose arrival led in turn to Mr Scaramucci’s departure. The communication director’s tenure was the stuff of Shakespearian drama — though brief enough to be just a morbid sonnet. Mr Scaramucci’s exit underscored the challenges that Mr Kelly, the former homeland security chief, faces in bringing order to a West Wing where a wide swath of aides have reported directly to the President, feeling free to walk into Trump’s Oval Office or buttonhole him in the hallway to lobby for conflicting agendas. ABC