US President Donald Trump has installed retired Marine Corps general John Kelly as the new White House chief of staff.
The 67-year-old combat veteran was sworn in as Trump’s new chief of staff on Monday.
Kelly is tasked with bringing order and discipline to a White House beset by scandal, infighting, and jump-starting the president’s stalled legislative agenda.
“I am pleased to inform you that I have just named General/Secretary John F Kelly as White House Chief of Staff,” Trump tweeted. “He is a Great American… and a Great Leader. John has also done a spectacular job at Homeland Security. He has been a true star of my Administration.”
Kelley has been secretary for six months at the Department of Homeland Security.
Talking to reporters in the Oval Office in the White House in Washington, DC, Trump predicted that he would do a “spectacular job.”
“What he has done in terms of homeland security is record-shattering, if you look at the…