John Kelly

Senior Advisor Jared Kushner (R) and National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow (2nd R) take part in a meeting between US President Donald Trump and China's Vice Premier Liu He in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC on February 22, 2019. (MANDEL NGAN / AFP)

March 1, 2019, 3:39 am

Trump ordered Kushner be given security clearance despite concerns — report

NYT says chief of staff John Kelly wrote memo saying president had demanded high-level access for his son-in-law, overriding questions regarding foreign ties, including to Israel

By AP and TOI staff

President Donald Trump signs an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Monday, March 13, 2017. From left are Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin, Budget Director Mick Mulvaney, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, Small Business Administration Administrator Linda McMahon, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, Vice President Mike Pence, Energy Secretary Rick Perry, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, and Defense Secretary James Mattis. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

December 21, 2018, 7:03 pm

As advisers leave, Trump’s guardrails come off

Mattis resignation marks the end of the ‘axis of adults,’ senior advisers who worked to guide the president and curb his most disruptive impulses

By Julie Pace and Zeke Miller

Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney talks to reporters in the Brady press briefing room at the White House in Washington, Thursday, March 22, 2018. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

December 15, 2018, 2:38 am

Trump picks budget head Mulvaney to be acting chief of staff

Head of the Office of Management and Budget designated as temporary replacement for John Kelly, but no time limit on his tenure

By Jonathan Lemire, Jill Colvin and Catherine Lucey

In this July 25, 2017 file photo, White House Senior Adviser and envoy, Jared Kushner, listens at right as President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

December 14, 2018, 2:51 am

Trump said to be considering son-in-law Kushner for chief of staff role

Senior adviser tasked with administration’s plans for Middle East peace reportedly eyed for key White House role, as US president scrambles to find replacement for Kelly

By Agencies and TOI staff

In this file photo taken on October 1, 2018 US Trade Rep. Robert Lighthizer speaks next to US President Donald Trump from the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC. (Jim WATSON / AFP)

December 11, 2018, 3:58 am

Trump administration scrambling to find new chief of staff

Mick Mulvaney, Chris Christie said to be in running to replace John Kelly, though many candidates worry about working for mercurial president who courts chaos

By Zeke Miller, Jill Colvin and Jonathan Lemire

In a Monday, Dec. 3, 2018 file photo, Nick Ayers, right, listens as Supreme Court Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch waits for the arrival of the casket for former President George H.W. Bush to lie in State at the Capitol on Capitol Hill in Washington.(Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via AP, Pool)

December 10, 2018, 5:03 am

Pence aide out of running to be Trump’s next chief of staff

More names emerge as possible contenders for the crucial job, after Nick Ayers begs off

By Zeke Miller

US President Donald Trump listens to White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, right, in the Oval Office of the White House on October 10, 2018. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

December 8, 2018, 11:35 pm

Trump says chief of staff John Kelly to leave at year’s end

US president announces he’ll soon name successor to ex-Marine general; Pence’s chief of staff considered the top choice for job

By Zeke Miller and Jill Colvin

This combination of file photos created September 4, 2018 show Associate Editor of the Washington Post Bob Woodward (L) speaking at the Newseum during an event marking the 40th anniversary of Watergate at the Newseum in Washington, DC June 13, 2012; and US President Donald Trump speaking during an event to announce a grant for drug-free communities support program, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on August 29, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / Mandel NGAN AND Jim WATSON)

September 11, 2018, 2:27 pm

As Trump fumes over leaks, Woodward pushes back on criticism

Veteran journalist staunchly defends his incendiary book, saying Mattis and Kelly ‘are not telling the truth’ when they deny making disparaging remarks about president

By Catherine Lucey and Jonathan Lemire

September 11, 2018, 12:43 am

Trump dismisses Woodward book as a ‘joke’

US president says journalist’s incendiary portrayal of him as reckless, erratic and uninformed is based on ‘disproven and anonymous sources’

By AFP

US President Donald Trump pauses while speaking during a rally Tuesday, August 21, 2018, in Charleston, West Virginia. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

September 5, 2018, 4:41 am

Trump slams Woodward book as ‘a con on the public’

Incendiary tell-all describes current and former aides calling the president an ‘idiot’ and a ‘liar,’ with the understanding of ‘a fifth- or sixth-grader’

By Zeke Miller

US President Donald Trump sits in the driver's seat of a semitrailer as he welcomes truckers and CEOs to the White House in Washington, DC, to discuss healthcare, March 23, 2017. (AFP/Jim Watson)

September 4, 2018, 9:16 pm

Damning Bob Woodward book shines light on ‘crazytown’ Trump White House

Excerpts from tome show aides striving to manage worst impulses of ‘idiot’ president, who urged assassination of Syria’s Assad

By TOI staff and Agencies

A military honor guard team carries the casket of Sen. John McCain from the US Capitol, Saturday, Sept. 1, 2018 in Washington. (Win McNamee/Pool photo via AP)

September 1, 2018, 6:22 pm

At funeral, McCain’s daughter mourns passing of ‘real’ American greatness

Meghan McCain lambastes ‘cheap rhetoric from men who will never come near his sacrifice’; three presidents, but not Trump, pay tribute at Washington service

By Laurie Kellman

Members of the public walk past the flag-draped casket bearing the remains of John McCain of Arizona, who lived and worked in Congress over four decades, in the US Capitol rotunda in Washington, Friday, Aug. 31, 2018. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

August 31, 2018, 11:34 pm

Thousands line up to say goodbye to John McCain at US Capitol

President Donald Trump, who mocked the longtime senator for being captured during Vietnam War, was asked to stay away from the service

By LAURIE KELLMA and Matthew Daly

Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner arrive for a ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House on September 11, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee/Getty Images via JTA)

August 15, 2018, 2:56 pm

Omarosa claims she taped call with Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner

White House’s Jewish power couple reportedly told fired aide they hadn’t known she would be sacked; critics say her recordings are a breach of ethics and security

By JTA

In this February 14, 2017, photo, Omarosa Manigault-Newman, then an aide to President Donald Trump, watches during a meeting with parents and teachers in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

August 13, 2018, 6:40 pm

Trump lashes out at ‘Wacky Omarosa’ as she releases another White House tape

US president calls former aide a ‘loser & nothing but problems,’ and says she’s ‘got fired for the last time’

By Jill Colvin and Catherine Lucey