What I don't like about Washington, if we say one syllable or one sentence, or this guy said something bad about me, then, all of a sudden, they have to be my mortal enemy. I don't think that's how it works in American business.
Making sweeping over-generalizations is classically un-American.
Best to give Chief of Staff John Kelly a clean slate and the ability to build his own team.
I am a straight shooter.
Let me tell you something about myself. I am a straight shooter.
It's not their job from the establishment-through-calcification to sit there and try to withhold the president, to rein him in or slow down his agenda.
