
John Kelly's frustrations with President Donald Trump are growing, according to a new report. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
According to a new report, White House chief of staff John Kelly recently went nuclear on President Donald Trump, threatened to quit and was even in the process of packing his personal belongings when he was talked off the ledge.
Axios first reported the news.
The Washington Post published a similar story over the weekend with detailed accounts of the heated exchanges between Trump and Kelly.
On one instance, Trump reportedly berated Kelly for insisting he install Nielsen at Homeland Security, complaining that Kelly didn't inform him that Nielsen is "a [expletive] George W. Bush person." And in January, Trump reportedly berated Kelly for an interview he gave on Fox News, where he said Trump's immigration views had yet to become fully evolved.
But on March 28, Kelly was so frustrated with Trump that it took both Nielsen and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis to talk Kelly off the ledge, according to the Post. And it's becoming a weekly ordeal for the White House.
"It’s sort of a weekly event," an administration official told the Post.
Indeed, as the Post goes into exhaustive detail, the relationship between Trump and Kelly has become strained just eight months into Kelly' tenure as chief of staff. But, as the Post noted, Trump's relationship with Kelly might still be one of the best in the West Wing because the president respects Kelly and listens to what he says.
He responded to the Post's story on Twitter, claiming the story is "far more fiction than fact."