--- title: Donald Trump Praises John Kelly on Twitter After Report description: President Trump praised his chief of staff John Kelly, seeming to push back on a new report that he's bridling at Kelly's leadership. canonical: https://time.com/4924710/donald-trump-twitter-john-kelly/ author: Tessa Berenson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-09-01T13:21:30.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T17:15:19.796Z article:section: Politics og:title: Trump Praised His New Chief After a Report That He's Already Sick of Him og:description: Kind words for John Kelly from the President og:url: https://time.com/4924710/donald-trump-twitter-john-kelly/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltea90471d0b114cb0/6988b9a68e0601c94e469252/gettyimages-632685636.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: President Trump Visits Department of Homeland Security og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Trump Praised His New Chief After a Report That He's Already Sick of Him twitter:description: Kind words for John Kelly from the President twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltea90471d0b114cb0/6988b9a68e0601c94e469252/gettyimages-632685636.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Trump Praised His New Chief of Staff After a Report That He's Already Sick of Him  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Sep 1, 2017 1:21 PM UTC  U.S. President Donald Trump is joined by Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly (R) during a visit to the Department of Homeland Security January 25, 2017 in Washington, DC. U.S. President Donald Trump is joined by Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly (R) during a visit to the Department of Homeland Security January 25, 2017 in Washington, DC.Chip Somodevilla—Getty Images  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Sep 1, 2017 1:21 PM UTC President [Donald Trump](http://time.com/4916675/donald-trump-approval-rating-low/) praised his new chief of staff [John Kelly](http://time.com/4894987/why-general-john-kelly-trump-last-hope/) on Friday morning, seeming to push back on a new report that he’s already bridling at Kelly’s leadership. “General John Kelly is doing a great job as Chief of Staff,” Trump said on Twitter. “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. AMERICA FIRST!” His comments came hours after [the Washington _Post_](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/during-a-summer-of-crisis-trump-chafes-against-criticism-and-new-controls/2017/08/31/8fb32d72-8d97-11e7-91d5-ab4e4bb76a3a%5Fstory.html?utm%5Fterm=.aa3aee7c0795) reported that “some of Trump’s friends fear that the short-tempered president is on an inevitable collision course with” Kelly, because “Trump chafes at some of the retired Marine Corps general’s moves to restrict access to him since he took the job almost a month ago.” > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/903597166249246720) > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/903600265420578819) Kelly took over the top post after Reince Priebus was ousted in July. He’s so far used his new position to try to [impose order](http://time.com/4881731/john-kelly-white-house/) on a chaotic White House. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4924710/donald-trump-twitter-john-kelly/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4924710/donald-trump-twitter-john-kelly/"},"headline":"Trump Praised His New Chief of Staff After a Report That He's Already Sick of Him","datePublished":"2017-09-01T13:21:30.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T17:15:19.796Z","description":"Kind words for John Kelly from the President","url":"https://time.com/4924710/donald-trump-twitter-john-kelly/","keywords":["White House","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltea90471d0b114cb0/6988b9a68e0601c94e469252/gettyimages-632685636.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tessa Berenson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltea90471d0b114cb0/6988b9a68e0601c94e469252/gettyimages-632685636.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"President Trump Visits Department of Homeland Security","caption":"President Trump Visits Department of Homeland Security","creditText":"Chip Somodevilla—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/white-house/","name":"White House"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4924710/donald-trump-twitter-john-kelly/","name":"Trump Praised His New Chief of Staff After a Report That He's Already Sick of Him"}}]}] ```