John Kelly said a second Trump term would be pure chaos and a “nonstop gunfight” with Congress and the courts as Donald Trump push the limits of presidential power.
“It would be chaotic,” Kelly told the New York Times. “It just simply would be chaotic, because he’d continually be trying to exceed his authority but the sycophants would go along with it. It would be a nonstop gunfight with the Congress and the courts.”
Kelly served as Trump’s second chief of staff before resigning in 2019 and has since become a vocal critic of the former president.
He reportedly called Trump “the most flawed person” he’s ever known and said the former president poisoned Americans’ minds.
Kelly’s comment comes as The Times reported that Trump and his allies are planning to expand presidential powers if he wins re-election next year.
According to The Times, that expansion includes “increasing the president’s authority over every part of the federal government that now operates, by either law or tradition, with any measure of independence from political interference by the White House.”
