Kelly is questioning the amount of support Trump has been able to gain despite the former president’s legal woes, according to The Washington Post.
“What’s going on in the country that a single person thinks this guy would still be a good president when he’s said the things he’s said and done the things he’s done?” Kelly said in a recent interview, according to the newspaper. “It’s beyond my comprehension he has the support he has.”
Kelly ... left the role in December 2018 after falling out with the former president.
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"What's going on in the country that a single person thinks this guy would still be a good president when he's said the things he's said and done the things he's done?" Kelly said in a recent interview, according to the newspaper. "It's beyond my comprehension he has the support he has."
But until December 2018, you thought he was a "good president" - good enough to continue being his Chief of Fucking Staff - in spite of all the "things he's said and done" up until that point? Unless Kelly is admitting that he was wrong about Trump the whole time, admits that mistake, he can go jump.
My recollection is that Kelly had a pretty contentious relationship with his President and, even at the time, portrayed himself as ‘the adult in the room’ trying to restrain Trump’s worst impulses. There was a whole stream of people who served with barely concealed disdain, then promptly unloaded in scandalous books and interviews upon leaving the administration.
Plenty of people did just join the grifter admin to get their grift on, but a few of them had the misguided idea that they could be the one to make Trump understand politics and professionalism.
I agree. Generously, up to 2020, I can reasonably believe a smattering of Republicans thinking that Trump could be the bf that they could “fix”. After that I don’t know how people see him as anything other than someone a crazy old crook who would put himself above the entire country, given the (second) opportunity.
I’ve said this before, but it bears repeating. In 2016 there was a panel discussion that brought together the creators of the top US political TV shows. Dramas like Scandal; the West Wing, VEEP; House of Cards, and the rest.
All the writers and producers said the same thing; if they had a character who was running for office and then said that they ‘liked soldiers who didn’t get captured’ the networks and advertisers would have demanded that the character be castigated by the entire nation.
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