Supposedly the WH communications team (group, department, flock, gaggle) has 40 people. Gads. No wonder Trump wanted a strong CoS!

Q 2. That’s a LOT of people: The POTUS already has a Cabinet.

E.g., the Marines have the 2 sections, S-2, G-2, while the POTUS has the NSA, CIA, DIA, NRO, and no doubt more. He not only has the DoD but also has his National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster, the NSC right in the White House, and the whole Department of State.

Trump also has Pence for various assignments.

My impression is that Trump wants Bannon, Ivanka, Jared, KellyAnn, and Mooch as close-in people he can trust, to look at the issues and the mountains of input and tell Trump what they think, e.g., what the public might think, so that Trump doesn’t have to do all the thinking, can have some people he trusts to do some of it for him, and so that he can get some trusted feedback on some of his thinking. I’m also guessing that Trump is grooming Ivanka as the first female POTUS. Bannon may also be the main source of most of Trump’s speeches and well crafted phrases.

Then I’m left wondering just who will report to Kelly?

Who in the White House, McMaster and the NSC? E.g., if Trump is to be shooting at North Korea, I’m guessing that he will want to discuss that in detail in person with Tillerson, Mattis, McMaster and the NSC, maybe the Joint Chiefs, WITHOUT Kelly as a layer
between Trump and those people.

Sure reporting to Kelly would be the White House Travel Office, the appointments and scheduling people, the Secret Service, the White House kitchen, etc. I have to doubt that Kelly was brought in to do better with those groups.

Who outside the White House will report to Kelly — some of the cabinet secretaries? The NSA, CIA, DIA, etc.?

To guess Kelly’s job, a way to guess is to improve in some respects on Priebus. E.g., maybe Trump wanted the White House to push on Congress hard enough to get them to repeal and replace ObamaCare; since the White House didn’t do that, maybe Trump wants Kelly to take whatever White House people are needed to get that repeal and replace DONE — or have Kelly go to the White House Congressional Liaison office, kick some butts, and get them actually getting things done? Same for the tax bill, the funding for the border wall, jobs for inner cities, judges and other appointments approved, etc. So, in this way, Kelly is just to charge harder than Priebus did?

Good to learn some about how the military battalions and divisions are organized and managed, but it looks to me like the White House and the cabinets are quite different.

http://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/chief-staff-john-f-kelly-gen-usmc-retired/

If you wrote a novel and made this character, he wouldn’t be better prepared, educated, trained, and experienced than General Kelly. Bravo!

BRC
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