“There is, to the best of my knowledge, no chaos in this building,” White House chief of staff John Kelly assured New York Magazine’s Olivia Nuzzi on Tuesday, part of what she called her “private Oval Office press conference” with President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, Kelly and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
Nuzzi was called into the Oval Office in the course of reporting on evergreen rumors that the President has sought to replace Kelly.
Trump spoke extensively on the record, at one point offering the assurance: “When you walk in here, you don’t see chaos. There is no chaos. The media likes to portray chaos. There’s no chaos.” He also inaccurately called Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr (R-NC) “a judge at the Senate committee,” and falsely said Burr had asserted “we have found no collusion.” Burr last month asserted he’s found “no hard evidence” of collusion — a big difference.
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As he was speaking from the Oval Trailer Garden Shed…
That’s because your job and salary are dependent on you not knowing about chaos in that building, you fucking coward.
It’s very frustrating as a young woman to constantly have your intelligence and competence underestimated by just about everyone, especially in the workplace. The one silver lining to this: those who most underestimate you (white men over 50) show you all their pathetic, paltry cards because they can’t be bothered to keep their guard up. I am so glad Olivia Nuzzi is willing to milk this micro-aggression for all it’s worth.
That’s certainly, um, reassuring.
An ever smaller circle knows what’s going on there.
Terrifying.