...says chief of staff indicated ‘country first, president second’ approach

Kelly said his tenure as chief of staff could be evaluated not by what Trump did during that time, but rather what the president had not done.

Mulvaney, a frequent visitor to the Oval Office, was never formally interviewed for chief of staff. He met Friday with Trump for a scheduled discussion of the budget showdown, officials said, but left as the acting chief of staff.

But the fact remains that Kelly was a true believer in some of Trump’s very worst ideas, echoed several of his very worst influences, failed completely to compensate for Trump’s most significant personal deficiencies, and intervened at key moments to make things worse.

Trump [...] said that he would announce a replacement for Mr. Kelly, perhaps on an interim basis, in the next day or two.

The Mueller questions to Kelly centered on a narrow set of issues in the investigation of potential obstruction of justice

The decision is not official and Trump, who has reportedly come close to firing Kelly before, could once again change his mind.

The White House chief of staff has had an array of disputes with officials from the NSC and the East Wing in recent months.

An argument last February [...] turned into a physical altercation that required Secret Service intervention just outside the Oval Office

Scaramucci said that while he applauds the retired Marine Corps general’s service, “he hurt the morale inside the place, and he’s hurt the president, and he has hissy fits.”

The White House chief of staff and the national security adviser got into a profanity-laced argument about immigration outside the Oval Office early Thursday morning

“What an impolite, arrogant woman”

How has Chief of Staff John Kelly managed to keep his job in spite of convincing and persistent rumors and reports that the president is unhappy with him, and he is unhappy in his job?

With Trump “punch-drunk,” Ivanka and Jared Kushner are taking the lead in the mole hunt—and they’ve set their sights on an old enemy.

In the purported recording, which would constitute a serious breach of White House security, Kelly is heard complaining about her “significant integrity issues”

The retired general has proven unable to stop President Donald Trump from being himself.

But nearly all the traces of the martial regime Kelly initially sought to impose have vanished.

The embattled former administrator had his bulldogs. They’re now gone.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders offered an explanation for Kelly’s reaction ... “[Kelly] was displeased because he was expecting a full breakfast and there were only pastries and cheese”

“Kelly looks like he wants to be anywhere but where he is”

But in recent months the question has become not whether Kelly could tame Trump but how soon Trump would get rid of Kelly.

Pruitt didn’t want to leave his post and was described as being devastated that he had to resign

Ayers, Mulvaney seen as top contenders

He said that undocumented immigrants seeking to enter the country “don’t have the skills” to assimilate and called them “overwhelmingly rural people” in comments that sounded derogatory.

Some current and former officials said they expect Kelly to leave by July, and that Trump and Kelly seem to have tired of each other.

Bossert, a favorite of Chief of Staff John F. Kelly, is leaving one day after national security adviser John Bolton began the job.

The recurring and escalating clashes between the president and his chief of staff trace the downward arc of Kelly’s eight months in the White House.

A senior administration official said that calling it a threat was "probably too strong, it was more venting frustration." Kelly often says he doesn't have to be there and didn't seek the job originally.

...amid a series of damaging reports that have raised the possibility that Pruitt could be fired.

Kelly's diminished influence comes as Trump considers doing away with a chief of staff and a communications director altogether.

White House chief of staff John Kelly had spoken with David Shulkin by phone Wednesday morning, reassuring the now-former VA secretary that he wouldn’t be fired by tweet that afternoon. Hours later, Kelly had to phone Shulkin again telling him plans had changed.

Trump was fuming Tuesday night, asking his allies and outside advisers who they thought had leaked the information

Although he told West Wing staff members that no changes were imminent, Kelly is said to be among those in the Trump administration possibly on their way out.

And the purge at the top may not be over. Mr. Trump, who is famously fickle, appears to have soured on additional members of his senior leadership team — and his frequent mulling about making changes has some people around him convinced that he could act soon.

A shake-up that some at the White House are preemptively calling a purge is coming. It could take down a chief of staff, a national security adviser, and up to three Cabinet secretaries

Kelly, the White House chief of staff, has killed an effort by the head of the Environmental Protection Agency to stage public debates challenging climate change science

The President has emboldened Anthony Scaramucci, the boisterous former communications director who was fired after just 10 days, to continue attacking White House chief of staff John Kelly during his cable news appearances

What would transpire over the Bruins' six days in the country -- and the three extra days spent by freshmen LiAngelo Ball, Jalen Hill and Cody Riley after they were arrested for shoplifting -- became international news that entangled the leaders of the world's two biggest superpowers

In some instances, Kelly even directly contradicted some of the White House's public statements delivered last month.

"Javanka and Kelly are locked in a death match. Two enter. Only one survives." — A White House official

The chief of staff is unlikely to grant the president's son-in-law a permanent clearance, but isn't likely to quit over the issue, either.

Jared Kushner and John Kelly, White House chief of staff, are at the center of a row over whether President Donald Trump’s son-in-law should have security clearance.

Kelly ... has approved an overhaul of how the White House manages security-clearance investigations, acknowledging missteps but putting the onus on the FBI and the Justice Department to now hand-deliver updates and provide more information.

“I am deeply sorry for thinking you would all react the way I’m accustomed to and simply disregard all misconduct claims made against someone in such a powerful position”

The chief of staff has been left to shoulder the blame over the failure to remove the former staff secretary, who held only an interim security clearance.

As staff secretary, Porter held one of the most important, and under-appreciated, positions at the White House. The staff secretary normally is responsible for managing all information that flows to the president – usually including the secrets known only to a small handful of people

And amid the tumult, the man whose mission had been to enforce order in the West Wing, Chief of Staff John F. Kelly, was focused instead on a more personal goal — to save his job — as Trump seriously sounded out confidants about possible replacements.

Kelly was told several weeks ago that multiple White House aides who had been working in the West Wing on interim security clearances would not qualify for permanent clearances.

White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly on Tuesday suggested that some young immigrants eligible for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program failed to apply for the legal protections because they were too afraid — or “too lazy to get off their asses.”

"We essentially got it today, the teams are doing exactly the same thing on this one that we did on the first one," Kelly said. "This one's more lengthy, but anyway, drop-dead date, they need to get back to me by close of business Thursday, then ... we'll go in and brief the President on it"

Kelly ... said that candidate Trump had not been "fully informed" about the border situation when he pledged repeatedly on the campaign trail to build the 2,200-mile wall and get Mexico to pay for it.

But Kelly can only keep tabs on Trump during working hours, and the president has often gone rogue when left alone.

Mr. Kelly has made clear that Mr. Kushner must fit within a chain of command. “Jared works for me,” he has told associates.

“What’s so strange about this statement is how closely it tracks or resembles the view of the Civil War that the South had finally got the nation to embrace by the early 20th century,” she said. “It’s the Jim Crow version of the causes of the Civil War. I mean, it tracks all of the major talking points of this pro-Confederate view of the Civil War.”

But, as a video by the Florida Sun Sentinel of Ms. Wilson’s remarks that day shows, Mr. Kelly got it all wrong. She did not say she got money for the building. She was generous and graceful in sharing credit for how legislation naming the building was fast-tracked.

Mr. Kelly accused Ms. Wilson — who was in a car with Ms. Johnson when Mr. Trump called and is a longtime family friend — of being a publicity-seeking opportunist.

“There’s nothing to clarify,” he said, blaming CNN for first broaching the subject at his news conference. “This was, again, fake news CNN. I mean, they’re just a bunch of fakers.”

The discovery raises concerns that hackers or foreign governments may have had access to data on Kelly’s phone while he was secretary of Homeland Security and after he joined the West Wing.

Until Kelly’s arrival, Ivanka Trump and Kushner were seen internally as the people who always had the last word with the president, especially when it came to personnel matters. Their special status irked some of their colleagues.

Though Kelly has sought to instill discipline in a chaotic White House, it's becoming clear there are two things he can't control: what the President says off-the-cuff and what he tweets. The question now is whether Kelly can now persuade Trump to move on from his battle with the NFL, but one official said he shouldn't count on it.

Welcome to our world, Kelly.

Trump does not have a web browser on his phone, and does not use a laptop, so he was dependent on aides like Stephen K. Bannon, his former chief strategist, to hand-deliver printouts of articles from conservative media outlets.

While Mr. Kelly has quickly brought some order to a disorganized and demoralized staff, he is fully aware of the president’s volcanic resentment about being managed

“He doesn’t like the way the media’s handling him. He doesn’t like how Kelly’s handling him. He’s turning on people that are very close to him.”

Kelly initiated a new policymaking process in which just he and one other aide ... will review all documents that cross the Resolute Desk.

The two worked out a mutually amicable departure date for mid-August, with President Trump’s blessing.

“White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and Steve Bannon have mutually agreed today would be Steve’s last day”

The chief White House strategist is increasingly isolated in the West Wing as new chief of staff John Kelly tries to clamp down on negative news stories.

Kelly cuts off rambling advisers midsentence. He listens in on conversations between cabinet secretaries and the president. He has booted lingering staff members out of high-level meetings, and ordered the doors of the Oval Office closed to discourage strays.

“Anybody else just love leaking information to the press, or have any fun leaking stories they want to tell? It’s totally cool if you do; everybody’s doing it”

Kelly was so upset with how President Donald Trump handled the firing of FBI Director James Comey that Kelly called Comey afterward and said he was considering resigning

Trump fired communications director Anthony Scaramucci on Monday at the urging of new White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly, a clear sign that the retired Marine general is being empowered to manage what has been an unwieldy West Wing operation.

Trump has removed Anthony Scaramucci as communications director, a little more than a week after the former financier was named to the post

Sooner or later Kelly will have to defend the White House’s jabber about “fake news,” “alternative facts,” and “witch hunts.” He will have to ascribe to Trump virtues that he does not possess, and deny the moral lapses and quite possibly the crimes that he has committed.

He likes Kelly. He trusts Kelly. But what remains to be seen is whether Trump will listen to him as Kelly seeks to bring order to a White House beset by chaos.

Trump ... sees Kelly as someone who dutifully follows through on his agenda and does not ever cause him problems, according to two White House officials.

The rescinded 2014 memo would have granted work permits and reprieves from deportation to 4 million parents of U.S. citizens and green card holders, provided that they passed a criminal background check and met other requirements.

Stressing the potential dangers of airborne terrorist acts utilizing in-flight electronics, Kelly said deliberations over whether to impose such a ban are ongoing.

While the White House touted the relationship Wednesday as "phenomenal," Tillerson acknowledged problems.