AP’s Lemire: Trump’s Mad at Kelly Because He Gets More Headlines, ‘Ask Steve Bannon About That’

‘We know he doesn’t like it when any aide gets more headlines than the president himself’

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LEMIRE: "We know he has been frustrated at John Kelly. For months now he’s chafed against some of the restrictions that Kelly has put on the Oval Office and how he used to like it far more freewheeling, resembling the first months of the administration but even his life back at Trump Tower. We certainly know he doesn’t like it when any aide gets more headlines than the President himself. Ask Steve Bannon about that. And then in the last week or so in particular, he’s been frustrated by, as was just said, that Kelly seems to have suggested that on the border wall that the President’s views may have been evolving. And in our reporting, Trump has told people around him that he doesn’t like that, he doesn’t like it when any aide thinks he’s managing the President, a subject that he’s particularly sensitive about after the unflattering portrayal of Trump that was in that Michael Wolff book."

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