Today, Chief of Staff John Kelly wanted everyone to know exactly how upset he was that Congresswoman Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-FL) listened in on a call from Trump to a Gold Star widow -- while she was in the vehicle and the call was on speakerphone.
Apparently not sticking her fingers in her ears and quietly saying “la la la, I can’t hear you, la la la” while the call was in progress destroyed the last item of Kelly’s 5 point list of things he and the country used to hold sacred.
Here is his indignation, and the 5 point list in Kelly’s own words from today’s presidential press briefing:
I was stunned, when I came to work yesterday morning, and brokenhearted, at what I saw a member of Congress doing. A member of Congress who listened in on a phone call from the President of the United States to a young wife […]
It stuns me that a member of congress would have listened in on that conversation. Absolutely stuns me. And I thought, at least that was sacred.
You know, when I was a kid growing up, a lot of things were sacred in our country. Women were sacred, and looked upon with great honor. That’s obvious not the case anymore as we see from recent cases.
Life, the dignity of life, was sacred. That’s gone.
Religion. That seems to be gone as well.
Gold Star Families, I think that left in the convention over the summer.
I just thought the selfless devotion that brings a man or woman to die on the battlefield, I just thought that that might be sacred.
I suppose one can assume that Trump also doesn’t like soldiers who die on the battlefield. Which would explain this:
"She was crying for the whole time," Wilson said. "And the worst part of it: When he hung up you know what she turned to me and said? She said he didn't even remember his name.
So, to sum up, a Congresswoman speaks up which disgusts Kelly, but his boss crapping all over everything he and the country ever held dear? Totally ok in his book.