Trump: Kelly will do a 'spectacular job' as COS (2017)
toronto.citynews.ca

... US President Donald Trump's new chief of staff was sworn in Monday morning. Ret. General John Kelly took the oath behind closed doors. Moments later, Trump spoke to the press, saying Kelly will do a "spectacular job" in his new role ...

Aide tried to stop Trump praising Hitler " by telling him Mussolini was great guy'
www.theguardian.com

... Donald Trump's second White House chief of staff tried to stop him praising Adolf Hitler in part by trying to convince the then president that Benito Mussolini, the Italian fascist dictator, was "a great guy in comparison".

"He said, Well, but Hitler did some good things,'" the retired marine general John Kelly told Jim Sciutto of CNN in an interview for a new book.

"I said, Well, what?' And he said, Well, [Hitler] rebuilt the economy.' But what did he do with that rebuilt economy? He turned it against his own people and against the world. And I said, Sir, you can never say anything good about the guy. Nothing. I mean, Mussolini was a great guy in comparison."

Kelly, a retired US Marine Corps general, was homeland security secretary in the Trump administration before becoming Trump's second chief of staff. Resigning at the end of 2018, he eventually became a public opponent of his former boss. ...