President Donald Trump defended firing an aide first lady Melania Trump wanted gone and admitted his Chief of Staff John Kelly 'will move on' but denied reports his White House is in chaos and gave himself an A+ as president.
'The White House is running like a well-oiled machine, it’s doing really well, I have great people. I will make some changes but not very many. I’m very happy with my cabinet, other than, you know a couple of exceptions and even there I’m not unhappy,' he said on 'Fox News Sunday.'
'I would give myself an A+, is that enough? Can I go higher than that?,' he said when asked to grade his presidency.
President Trump gave himself an A+ as president
Trump defended firing an aide his wife, first lady Melania Trump, wanted gone
Trump's bravado comes in the wake of chess moves in the West Wing that saw him fire a national security aide at his wife's request, shove Attorney General Jeff Sessions out the door, and show signs of readying pink slips for his chief of staff and Homeland Security secretary.
Melania Trump won a White House battle to decide the fate of Deputy National Security Advisor Mira Ricardel after an all-out pitched battle that pitted the West and East Wings against each other.
Ricardel was fired Wednesday evening following a rare public rebuke from the first lady's office.
'It is the position of the Office of the First Lady that she no longer deserves the honor of serving in this White House,' said first lady spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham.
Some of Ricardel's enemies in the White House had accused her of leaking, and she reportedly tried to undermine Melania's recent trip to Africa.
Trump defended his wife and said she has not been treated properly by the press, particularly after 'great job' in Africa.
'Well I didn’t know the advisor well, really, and I know they had a lot of problem. My wife did a great job in Africa and she was not treated properly by the press, she really worked so hard,' he told 'Fox News Sunday.'
Melania Trump won a White House battle over the future of the president's deputy national security advisor; Mira Ricardel, a Trump aide who clashed with the first lady's office, was fired at the end of the day on Wednesday
White House Chief of Starr John Kelly (right) and his longtime protégé, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen (left), are reportedly set to feel Trump's firing axe
The president added that he knew the East Wing was going to put out a statement calling for Ricardel to be fired.
'They came to me. They wanted to go a little bit public because that’s the way they felt and I thought it was fine. I met with Mira two days ago and we’re going to move her around. She was with me for a long time, although I don’t know her. She’s really somebody I don’t know very well. But we’re going to move her around because she’s got certain talents,' he said.
Then he seemed to get in a dig at Ricardel.
'But, frankly, she is not - she’ll never be put in the United Nations, let me put it that way,' he said.
Nikki Haley is leaving the post as U.S. ambassador to the U.N. at the end of the year and the president has yet to formally name her replacement.
Trump clarified of Ricardel: 'She’s not too diplomatic, but she’s talented.'
The president also wouldn't guarantee John Kelly or Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen would keep their jobs in the White House.
He said of Nielsen: 'I like her a lot. I respect her a lot. She’s very smart. I want her to get much tougher and we’ll see what happens there. But I want to be extremely tough.'
He said there's a 'chance's she would stay in her job but repeated he wanted her to be much tougher on border security and immigration.
The president also wouldn't say if Kelly would remain chief of staff through the 2020 election - an assertion he has made in the past.
President Trump said he expects chief of staff John Kelly will move on
Nick Ayers (l), chief of staff to U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, is topping the list of eventual replacements for John Kelly
'We get along well. There are certain things I love what he does. And there are certain things that I don’t like that he does - that aren’t his strength,' he said.
He added: "He’s doing an excellent job in many ways. There are a couple of things where it’s just not his strength. It’s not his fault, it’s not his strength.'
But when pressed the president declined to say what Kelly was failing to do.
'John, at some point, is going to want to move on. John will move on,' Trump said.
He added: 'Look, I have three or four or five positions that I’m thinking about. Of that, maybe it’s going to end up being two. Maybe, but I want to - I need flexibility.'
A 36-year-old top aide to Vice President Mike Pence emerged on Wednesday as the leading candidate to replace Kelly.
Kelly is thought to be on the chopping block because he feuded with first lady Melania Trump over staff promotions.
Facing Trump's ire at the same time is Nielsen, whom the president believes is too slow to implement his tough-on-illegal-immigrants border control policies.
Kelly was Nielsen's mentor made her his chief of staff when he ran DHS, before moving to the West Wing – where he brought her along before securing her appointment to his old job.
His likely replacement is, Nick Ayers a young and politically astute operator with a reputation for successfully guiding Pence as both a loyal soldier and a hopeful successor with a mind of his own.
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Emily Ratajkowski is a showman, on and off the stage. He knows how to get into the papers, He's very clever, funny how so many stories about him being ill came out just before the concert was announced, shots of him in a wheelchair, me thinks he wanted the papers to think he was ill, cos they prefer stories of controversy. Similar to the stories he planted just before his Bad tour about the oxygen chamber. Worked a treat lol. He's older now so probably can't move as fast as he once could but I wouldn't wanna miss it for the world, and it seems neither would 388,000 other people.
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