And has revealed Kelly's true self.

Turns out he has always been an asshole. In the Trump White House, he gets the opportunity to put his assholery on public display. Talk about an "empty barrel".

In Trump world they normalize his crazy so much that they forget to keep their mask on. As bad as he is Kelly is still probably the only “adult” anywhere near Trump and the White House. That doesn’t augur well for the rest of us.

don't read, although I fully believe in the need to value all conservatives who haven't slid into the despicable abyss.

Is that Maureen Dowd? Glad someone still reads her to give me her occasional jewels.

which means before Trump. He was HORRIBLE at DHS, because he's an inveterate racist (and misogynist). But everyone just assumed because he was a general he had to be this upstanding wonderful guy. Nonsense. NONSENSE.

It is horrifying and terribly disappointing to realize how many ignorant bigots I have in my life.

Everything trumpft touches, dies. That includes reputations.

not a damn one of them

Not a good man. He enabled the GOP during the Obama years.

An idiom that applies to the Kelly idiot.

However, I don’t think Trump “rubbed off” on Gen. Kelly I think we are just seeing the REAL Gen. Kelly. The media, people in Congress & other military officials knew him as a General in the US Military where there is firm structure & the focus is on a clearly defined mission.

However, there were strong hints that Gen. Kelly was a racist & had an irrational hatred of Muslims through comments he made before joining Trump’s administration. Plus, I think I read yesterday while in the military he also defended others who were accused of sexual misconduct.

Of course, this depends on if I’m not confusing one scumbag Trump aide/cabinet member for another.

(Derogatory and *sarc* remark.)

Like they're in a rock tumbler.

Criminal racist misogynistic traitors only hire other criminal racist misogynistic traitors. There are exactly zero good people in this administration.

America is too easily fooled by a military uniform. Kelly, Mattis, and McMaster are each in their own way disastrous. Kelly's warts are obvious. Mad Dog Mattis is a butcher - check out his words and see his assaults on Fallujah. And Dereliction of Duty McMaster has had a front row seat and leading role in the disasters that we have unleashed since 2001. Ass-kissers one and all who "stay the course" and follow the orders of the president. Men without principle, these idiots are just fawning frauds running drumpf's praetorian guard. And the media just falls all over these idiots ad nauseam. If truth be told (and no, "we" apparently can't handle the truth) each should be on trial for being the war criminals they are. Spineless bunch of sycophants are not the adults in the room.

"Shit flows downhill"

drumpf: Do as I say, not as I do.

off on millions of Americans. Look at the rise in violent crime against people of color, the LBGTQ community, women, immigrants just to mention a few. Hell, the White House has a whole line up of folks willing to go on the record to defend domestic abusers. He hasn’t just rubbed off on people...he is a lethal contagion.

it doesn't happen out of the blue.