Saying "No" to Trump is like "Like French Kissing a Chainsaw"

According to Axios, www.axios.com/...www.axios.com/...Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Michael S. Schmidt reports in his forthcoming book, "Donald Trump v. The United States." that immediately after Trump fired FBI director James Comey in May 2017 — he called John Kelly who was then the Director of Homeland Security and offered him the FBI job.

However, if Kelly wanted that job, it came with a special requirement — a pledge of absolute personal loyalty to Donald J. Trump.   

• "Kelly immediately realized the problem with Trump's request for loyalty, and he pushed back on the president's demand," Schmidt writes
• "Kelly said that he would be loyal to the Constitution and the rule of law, but he refused to pledge his loyalty to Trump."

That should have been the kiss of death for Kelly, but a few months later General Kelly accepted an offer to be Donald Trump’s White House Chief of Staff — a job in which John Kelly could (I suppose) more comfortably pledge allegiance to Trump.  Kelly served in that roll from July 31, 2017, to January 2, 2019, and coyly described it at the time as the hardest job he had ever had.

Kelly repeatedly struggled to restrain the president’s worst instincts — ideas like pulling out of NATO.

Not sure where this would fall on the pain index en.wikipedia.org/...— but Kelly is reported that saying ‘No’ to Trump was like ‘French Kissing a Chainsaw’ 

A stinging quote to be sure.

That one will permanently stick in my mind and I’ll wager in history as well.