I give him four months: Trump confidantes already placing bets on how long Gen Kelly will last

[Jimbo101]

Rawstory

Donald Trump’s decision to replace Reince Priebus with Gen. John Kelly as his chief of staff has received much fanfare, with supporters encouraged by the new chief of staff’s attempts to curtail the president’s open door policy and establish a pecking order in the West Wing.

But privately, aides and confidantes worry Kelly risks isolating the president in his attempt to moderate the free-flow of unveiled information that poured into the Oval Office under his predecessor. “The problem here is that [Trump] won’t have anyone to talk to, and he’ll get frustrated,” a Trump associate told the Wall Street Journal. “I give General Kelly four months.”

[7wo7rees]

1. Slow motion coup. Military junta.

Takeover. Kelly is not going anywhere but up.

[Eyeball_Kid]

2. A staff person or two has been assigned the task of writing Trumpy's tweets, IMO.

When you look at the most recent tweets, they aren't written in Trumpy's style. They're being heavily edited or ghost written.

[dixiegrrrrl]

6. One Kelly change is Miller/bannon crazy talk that sets Trump off, that is being curtailed.

Those guys that just got fired were giving Trump reports about everybody and their grandma plotting against Trump, and he was falling for it.
Gorka and Miller need to go.
Let's hold that up as a happy idea.

[FM123]

3. I could see that happening.

[Wellstone ruled]

4. Most of the On Air Talking Heads are

guessing the same scenario.

[Warpy]

5. Donny was an unruly brat who was packed off to military school in his youth

so if Kelly manages to exert that kind of discipline, Big Donny might accept it, especially if he's given a pep rally every few weeks to prove to himself he still exists.

Whether Kelly wants to be his baby sitter is what is in doubt.

[tanyev]

7. Four months? Highly optimistic.

In my opinion.