Trump Holding Secret Evening Meetings With Aides To Evade Kelly’s West Wing Clampdown
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
Dec 4, 2017
“Stop Bickering, Get in Early, Make an Appointment” – in the five months since John Kelly took the helm as Trump’s Chief of Staff, the former marine has reportedly turned the West Wing from a free-for-all of division and disorganization into a well oiled machine.
Mountains of unchecked paperwork no longer cross the Resolute Desk. Gone is the ability for aides and associates to simply swing by the Oval Office and have a chat with President Trump – including his own son-in-law Jared Kushner and daughter Ivanka who began reporting directly to Kelly. Senior staff meetings which once began at nearly 9 a.m. were moved to 8 a.m. in the Roosevelt Room – in sharp contrast to the wandering discussions held by Kelly’s predecessor, Reince Priebus – often with the TV blaring in the background of his office.
Moreover, Kelly has instructed staff not to simply patch calls through to President Trump from friends outside the White House who wanted to chat about current events – instead requiring that they make appointments. Indeed, it appears that Kelly’s clampdown on the Trump White House have turned it into an efficient, streamlined, militaristic operation…
Then there’s Trump, who according to a report in the Wall St. Journal has been calling White House aides to his private residence in the evening where he gives them new assignments – asking them not to tell Mr. Kelly.
Trump, it appears, cannot be tamed. But we knew that.
“John has been successful at putting in place a stronger chain of command in the White House, requiring people to go through him to get to the Oval Office,” said Leon Panetta, a White House chief of staff under President Bill Clinton who worked with Mr. Kelly, a four-star Marine general, in the Department of Defense. “The problem has always been whether or not the president is going to accept better discipline in the way he operates. He’s been less successful at that.” -WSJ
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