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Exclusive: John Kelly goes on the record to confirm several disturbing stories about Trump | CNN Politics

www.cnn.com Exclusive: John Kelly goes on the record to confirm several disturbing stories about Trump | CNN Politics

John Kelly, the longest-serving White House chief of staff for Donald Trump, offered his harshest criticism yet of the former president in an exclusive statement to CNN.

In the statement, Kelly is confirming, on the record, a number of details in a 2020 story in The Atlantic by editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg, including Trump turning to Kelly on Memorial Day 2017, as they stood among those killed in Afghanistan and Iraq in Section 60 at Arlington National Cemetery, and saying, “I don’t get it. What was in it for them?”

Trump said he did not want to visit the graves of American soldiers buried in the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery near Paris because, “Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers.” During that same trip to France, the article reported, Trump said the 1,800 US Marines killed in the Belleau Wood were “suckers” for getting killed.

Kelly concluded, "God help us."

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What’s interesting is that Trump seems to have no conception at all that he will go down in history as a terrible human being and general loser.
- He's like a little kid that wants attention. Getting attention for being naughty is just as good as getting attention for being good, but is much easier.
- Imagine, if you will, people in 2120 still using his grave as a gender neutral bathroom. Just warms your heart.
  
  Oh look at that grave, honey. I wonder who that is? Grass doesn't seem to grow there and it looks like multiple people have chiseled out the name and filled it.... eww is that faeces?
  
  His will definitely be one president's grave that they probably won't want to have open to the public.
- Trump has clinically-diagnosable Narcissistic Personality Disorder. He thinks he's the best at things and brags about associating with the best people. He can only consider himself in his day-to-day decision-making, and only cares about other people to the extent they are useful to him in that moment. He genuinely believes his way of doing things is "perfect."
  
  While it's not unheard of, you really can't expect someone with NPD to ever change. He will never admit fault, ever, because he has demonstrated he will protect his ego at all costs

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