Kelly and CNN -- got it -- ===== When Trump arrived in Singapore in June 2018 for the North Korea–United States summit, the New York Times reported that Kelly had told a recent group of visiting senators the White House was "a miserable place to work." The reported comment renewed months-long speculation that Kelly would resign from his job of White House Chief of Staff.[52]
According to several news outlets in early 2018, Kelly's influence in the White House had been diminished and Trump made several key decisions without his presence.[53][54][55] On December 7, 2018, CNN and others reported that Kelly and Trump were no longer on speaking terms and that Kelly was expected to resign in the coming days.[56] On December 8, Trump announced that Kelly would be leaving at the end of the year.[57] On December 14, 2018, the White House announced that Mick Mulvaney would replace John Kelly as the White House Chief of Staff.[58]
On the day after the 2021 United States Capitol attack, Kelly said he supported Trump's removal from office by use of the 25th Amendment, adding, "What happened on Capitol Hill yesterday is a direct result of his poisoning the minds of people with the lies and the frauds."[59]
Kelly released a statement in October 2023 confirming much of the 2020 reporting by Jeffrey Goldberg that Trump had expressed disdain for veterans and the war dead. Kelly harshly condemned Trump in several respects, characterizing him as "a person that has nothing but contempt for our democratic institutions, our Constitution, and the rule of law."[60][61]
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