Trump Disparages His Former Chief of Staff, John Kelly

I know John Kelly. He was with me — didn’t do a good job, had no temperament — and, ultimately, he was petered out. He got, he was exhausted. This man was totally exhausted. He wasn’t even able to function in the last number of months. He was not able to function. He was sort of a tough guy. By the time he got eaten up in this world. It’s a different world than he was used to. He was unable to function. And I told him, “John, you’re going to have to go. Please give me a letter of resignation.” And we did that. And now he goes out and bear — bad mouths. Now there are people that are jealous. There are people that are upset that they’re not here anymore. There are people — we’ve done an incredible job. The virus came in, and now we’re doing an incredible job again. We’re going to build it up bigger than it was before the virus came in. But I don’t know that it was him. I haven’t seen that. I mean, I see anonymous. But it could have been a guy like a John Kelly because he was — just so you understand. He was a very — you look at some of his news conferences, what happened to him — he got eaten alive. He was unable to handle the pressure of this job. This job was a tough job. Mark Meadows is doing a great job. But Kelly was unable to do that.