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John Kelly, the pro-Trump media could be coming for you next
Source: Washington Post
John Kelly, the pro-Trump media could be coming for you next
By Callum Borchers August 25 at 12:40 PM
It is not every day that Breitbart News highlights commentary from MSNBC's Chris Matthews, but the “Hardball” host said something on Thursday that Breitbart wanted to amplify. Matthews said that if he were President Trump, he would fire White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly.
It was a glib remark, made in the context of a discussion about reports that Kelly is trying to position himself as Trump's gatekeeper, blocking dubious news articles from reaching the president's desk. “He's controlling the cage,” Matthews said of Kelly. “If I were Trump, I'd fire him just for saying that.”
The implication is that Trump's ego should rebel against Kelly's attempt to control what the president sees. To be sure, reports on Kelly's effort, by Politico and the New York Times, are a bit insulting, suggesting that Kelly views Trump as highly impressionable and incapable of discerning fact from fiction on his own.
If Kelly's new system works, perhaps Trump's pride won't be wounded because he won't see Breitbart's article — or Politico's or the Times's or this one. But considering the amount of time Trump spends glued to Twitter and cable news, it is extremely difficult to block information from reaching him.
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By Callum Borchers August 25 at 12:40 PM
It is not every day that Breitbart News highlights commentary from MSNBC's Chris Matthews, but the “Hardball” host said something on Thursday that Breitbart wanted to amplify. Matthews said that if he were President Trump, he would fire White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly.
It was a glib remark, made in the context of a discussion about reports that Kelly is trying to position himself as Trump's gatekeeper, blocking dubious news articles from reaching the president's desk. “He's controlling the cage,” Matthews said of Kelly. “If I were Trump, I'd fire him just for saying that.”
The implication is that Trump's ego should rebel against Kelly's attempt to control what the president sees. To be sure, reports on Kelly's effort, by Politico and the New York Times, are a bit insulting, suggesting that Kelly views Trump as highly impressionable and incapable of discerning fact from fiction on his own.
If Kelly's new system works, perhaps Trump's pride won't be wounded because he won't see Breitbart's article — or Politico's or the Times's or this one. But considering the amount of time Trump spends glued to Twitter and cable news, it is extremely difficult to block information from reaching him.
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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/08/25/john-kelly-the-pro-trump-media-could-be-coming-for-you-next/
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