“Many big decisions to be made over the coming days and weeks,” President Donald Trump wrote on Twitter Friday morning. “AMERICA FIRST!” | Andrew Harnik/AP Trump says he 'could not be happier' with chief of staff Kelly

President Donald Trump praised his chief of staff John Kelly on Friday as “doing a great job,” following a report that he has resisted some of the retired general’s attempts to impose order on the chaotic West Wing.

“General John Kelly is doing a great job as Chief of Staff,” Trump said on Twitter Friday morning. “I could not be happier or more impressed - and this Administration continues to.....get things done at a record clip.”


“Many big decisions to be made over the coming days and weeks,” he added. “AMERICA FIRST!”

A Washington Post story published Thursday evening reported that “some of Trump’s friends fear that the short-tempered president is on an inevitable collision course with” his chief of staff. The Post reported that Trump “chafes” at Kelly’s attempts to control access to the president and said Kelly has earned a condescending nickname, “the church lady,” among some of Trump’s loyalists.

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Kelly recently replaced Trump’s first chief of staff, Republican National Committee veteran Reince Priebus.