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SWAMP DRAIN: Reince Priebus Given The Boot As President Trump Names Gen. John Kelly As Chief Of Staff

Reince Priebus lost his job just hours after the president’s signature drive to repeal his predecessor’s health care program collapsed on the Senate floor.

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9 years ago

July 28, 2017

Geoffrey Grider

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Reince Priebus, the establishment Republican-turned-loyalist to President Trump who served as his White House chief of staff for the last six months, was pushed out on Friday in the latest convulsion in a chaos-wracked West Wing to which he had repeatedly failed to bring some semblance of order.

EDITOR’S NOTE: Now that President Trump has put Anthony Scaramucci into his administration, heads are starting to roll. And it’s long overdue. There are many snakes in Trump’s apple barrels, and the two-faced Reince Priebus is one of them. Umm, make that was one of them. Good job, Mooch, keep it up. Many more creatures in the swamp that need letting out.

Convinced that Mr. Priebus was not strong enough, Mr. Trump has been talking about bringing in “a general” as chief of staff and chose John F. Kelly, the retired Marine four-star general serving as secretary of homeland security. But some of his advisers oppose that idea, arguing that Mr. Trump needs someone more in tune with the nationalist political movement that helped propel him to the White House.

Mr. Priebus, a former chairman of the Republican National Committee, lost his job just hours after the president’s signature drive to repeal his predecessor’s health care program collapsed on the Senate floor and a day after an ugly feud with the new communications director erupted in a public airing of the deep animosities plaguing the White House.

The announcement capped a fraught 24 hours in which the president’s advisers waited for a change they had long anticipated. Mr. Priebus accompanied Mr. Trump on Air Force One for a day trip to Long Island as his fate was being decided. Making for a tense flight, his rival, Anthony Scaramucci, the communications director who had publicly vowed to force Mr. Priebus’s resignation, was also on the plane and in the motorcade.

I am pleased to inform you that I have just named General/Secretary John F Kelly as White House Chief of Staff. He is a Great American….

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 28, 2017

In barely half a year on the job, Mr. Priebus never won the full confidence of the president nor was granted the authority to impose a working organizational structure on the West Wing. Always seeming to be on the edge of ouster, Mr. Priebus saw his fate finally sealed a week ago when Mr. Trump hired Mr. Scaramucci, an edgy Wall Street financier, over the chief of staff’s objections. Mr. Priebus’s ally, Sean Spicer, the press secretary, resigned in protest.

More than just a personnel dispute, the disagreement suggested a broader cleavage that would lead to Mr. Priebus’ resignation. In tapping Mr. Scaramucci, Mr. Trump was turning to a wealthy New Yorker who had become part of his inner circle, and who compensated in charisma and rapport with Mr. Trump and his family for what he lacked in governing experience.

Mr. Priebus represented a more conventional breed of senior White House figure, chosen by the president despite a career defined by the calculations of traditional Republican Party politics, which Mr. Trump regards as part of “the swamp” he was elected to drain.

Anthony Scaramucci calls Priebus a ‘paranoid schizophrenic’

Did Anthony Scaramucci help to push Reince Priebus out the door? Yep, and it was long overdue.

Mr. Priebus and Mr. Spicer had told the president they believed Mr. Scaramucci, a gregarious hedge fund manager and fund-raiser, lacked the political experience and organizational skills required to serve in the role of communications director. In the end, however, those warnings fell on deaf ears and further soured Mr. Trump, who almost from the start suggested both publicly and privately that the job of his chief of staff was not safe.

Mr. Scaramucci made clear when he was hired that he did not report to Mr. Priebus but directly to the president and by Wednesday night was publicly suggesting that the chief of staff was a leaker and even threatened to seek an F.B.I. investigation. On Thursday, he went on television and dared Mr. Priebus to deny leaking and described the two of them as Cain and Abel, the biblical brothers whose rivalry results in one killing the other.

On Thursday evening, The New Yorker posted an interview with Mr. Scaramucci that included a profanity-laced tirade against Mr. Priebus. He called Mr. Priebus a “paranoid schizophrenic, a paranoiac,” who leaked information against him and vowed to get him fired. “He’ll be asked to resign very shortly,” Mr. Scaramucci said.

As party chairman last year, Mr. Priebus was slow to embrace Mr. Trump’s candidacy and the president, who sometimes called him “Reincey” in private, never let his chief of staff forget it. . Mr. Trump had often joked about his chief of staff’s long-term loyalty, and liked reminding the people around him that Mr. Priebus suggested that he consider dropping out after the release of the “Access Hollywood” tape of Mr. Trump’s crude remarks about women were made public in October.

A native of Kenosha, Wis., Mr. Priebus rose through the ranks of the Republican Party to be his state’s chairman, amassing power by establishing relationships with party donors and becoming an effective operator within the national party, which he was chosen to lead in 2011. One of his top allies was a fellow Republican from Wisconsin, House Speaker Paul D. Ryan, who publicly defended Mr. Priebus on Thursday when no one in the White House would.

With many former members of President George W. Bush’s administration unwilling to work for a president they regard as unqualified or blackballed because of their opposition to Mr. Trump’s candidacy last year, Mr. Priebus staffed the West Wing with an assortment of Republican veterans and some of his core staff at the R.N.C., including his former deputy, Katie Walsh. But the assimilation of the R.N.C. into the West Wing was fraught and Ms. Walsh and others departed.

Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and senior adviser, soured on Mr. Priebus, partly because of what he has viewed as Mr. Spicer’s shortcomings. Other senior advisers bristled at his demeanor or suspected he was undermining him. An alliance of convenience with Stephen K. Bannon, the nationalist and decidedly anti-establishment chief strategist, seemed to fade in recent weeks.

The jockeying to replace Mr. Priebus got underway even before his demise was official. Many of Mr. Scaramucci’s colleagues assumed he wanted the job, but he would have been controversial not just because of his foul-mouthed rant that included a vulgar attack on Mr. Bannon.

Originally a sharp critic of Mr. Trump as a candidate, he donated to and voted for Democrats like President Barack Obama and supported gun control, abortion rights and same-sex marriage, opposed the death penalty and criticized those who call climate change a hoax.

Some of Mr. Trump’s longtime supporter s also publicly questioned his interest in Mr. Kelly. “The president needs someone who understands the Trump constituency as his chief of staff, someone who has both administrative skills and political savvy,” said Roger Stone, Mr. Trump’s off and on adviser.

Other names that have been floated include Gary D. Cohn, the national economics adviser, and Dina Powell, the deputy national security adviser, both veterans of Goldman Sachs and close to Mr. Kushner and Ivanka Trump. source

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Donald Trump’s Iran War Sparks Stunning House Rebuke As Republican Defectors In Congress Expose Deep Cracks In The ‘America First’ Movement

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2 days ago

June 4, 2026

Geoffrey Grider

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‘America First’ Fractures As House Congressional Republicans Join Democrats To Rebuke Trump Over His Unauthorized Iran War

The House vote to rebuke Trump over the Iran war is not merely a “symbolic” slap on the wrist — it is a warning flare from deep inside his own political camp. When Republican leadership has to argue that Congress exercising its constitutional war powers would “weaken the president’s hand,” what they are really admitting is that Trump’s hand is already weak. A strong president does not need Congress to surrender its authority in order to look strong at the negotiating table. The facade is slipping.

“Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.” Jeremiah 17:5 (KJB)

The resolution passed 215–208, with four Republicans joining Democrats to demand that Trump seek congressional authorization or withdraw from military action in Iran. That does not mean the entire Republican Party has abandoned him, but it absolutely means the old automatic loyalty is cracking. The vote came after earlier failed attempts, making this one politically significant because enough Republicans finally broke away to put it over the top. What makes this so damaging is the contradiction at the heart of Trump’s political brand. He ran as the man who would end endless wars, drain the swamp, confront the foreign policy establishment, and put America First. Yet here he is, presiding over another Middle East war, with Congress now having to drag the White House back toward the Constitution. That is not strength. That is the very Washington war machine Trump once promised to defeat.

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These GOP defectors are not simply siding with Democrats. They are exposing a fault line inside the MAGA movement itself. Is “America First” a real doctrine, or just campaign-stage decoration that gets tossed aside the moment the drums of war start beating? If Trump can wage war with Iran without clear congressional authorization, then the constitutional conservative argument collapses into personality worship. Republican leaders claim this vote weakens Trump in negotiations with Iran. No — the war weakened him. The rising costs weakened him. The lack of a clean exit weakened him. The failure to secure a durable settlement weakened him. Congress did not create the weakness; Congress exposed it.

The House resolution was opposed by Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and most Republicans, who complained that it undermines Trump and his top negotiators when they are trying to secure a nuclear deal with Iran. Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian Mast, R-Fla., called Wednesday’s action “just a total BS vote.” source

The House vote is a public rebuke of a president whose own party is beginning to realize that bravado is not strategy, escalation is not victory, and loyalty to Trump is not the same thing as loyalty to the US Constitution. For years, Republicans warned about unchecked executive power — until that power belonged to their man. Now, with American forces entangled in Iran and the War Powers clock already blown past, a few Republicans are finally remembering that Congress, not the president, has the authority to declare war. This is even bigger than a Capitol Hill fight. America is being pulled deeper into the Middle East firestorm while its leaders pretend they are in control. They are not. Iran, Israel, the Gulf, oil prices, military escalation, congressional rebellion — all of it points to a superpower strained, divided, and spiritually blind while the voice of the prophets grows louder by the day.

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WORLD WAR TRUMP! DJT Started A War He Cannot Control As Iran Now Defies Him Over Its Enriched Uranium, Daring The United States To Stop Them

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May 21, 2026

Geoffrey Grider

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World War Trump Lit The Fuse In Iran But Tehran’s Defiant Refusal To Surrender Its Enriched Uranium Shows He Cannot Control The Coming Explosion

President Trump may have launched this war believing that overwhelming military force, diplomatic pressure, and Israeli coordination would bend Iran to Washington’s will. But today’s Reuters report shows something far more sobering. World War Trump, I’m sorry, Operation Epic Fury, has already moved beyond Trump’s control. As we have long told you, beneath the braggidocio and bluster from the Department of War, no one in the Trump administration seems to have any understanding at all of the Islamic mindset. Someone please tell the president that the only way this ends is with a ‘boots on the ground’ military intevention, and going in and taking the enriched uranium ourselves. That’s it, and Thank for your attention in this matter!

“Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.” Psalm 146:3 (KJB)

Iran’s Supreme Leader has reportedly ordered that Iran’s enriched uranium must remain inside Iran, rejecting a central U.S. demand that the stockpile be removed from the country as part of any ceasefire or nuclear settlement. That is not negotiation, that is open defiance. Reuters reported the directive was confirmed by two senior Iranian officials, and markets immediately reacted, with oil spiking and U.S. stock futures falling on fears the conflict could escalate further. And there it is. Trump started the fire, but he certainly doesn’t own the flames. Trump can order strikes, and he can issue threats. He can stand behind podiums and announce ultimatums. He can say what Iran “must” do, what Israel “requires,” and what America “will not allow.” But the moment the missiles fly, the war becomes a living thing — fed by nationalism, religion, retaliation, oil markets, terror proxies, wounded pride, military calculations, and spiritual darkness. No president controls all of that, and now, it’s out of control.

This is the great delusion of modern American power: that Washington can bomb its way into obedience, threaten its way into peace, and sanction its way into surrender. But Iran is not responding like a defeated regime. Iran is responding like a regime that believes time, geography, fanaticism, and escalation are on its side. And you know what? It is. Trump demanded the uranium leave Iran,and Iran answered. They said “no”. That single word exposes the whole fantasy. Because if Trump cannot force Iran to surrender its enriched uranium after launching a war to stop Iran’s nuclear program, then what exactly has the war accomplished? If Iran keeps the stockpile, keeps the infrastructure hidden or hardened, keeps the ideology burning, and keeps the Strait of Hormuz hanging over the world economy like a sword, then Trump is not dictating the outcome — he is reacting to it.

Trump, Hegseth and the Department of War have consistiently lied to the American people about the true cost and toll of this war, and Congress must step in and hold them accountable

This war was sold as strength, but strength without control becomes chaos. Strength without a clean endgame becomes a trap. Strength without wisdom becomes exactly what the Bible says it is, the arm of flesh. Iran’s defiance also reveals how little leverage Trump truly has. If he escalates, oil prices can explode, American forces across the region become targets, Israel is pulled deeper into a widening war, and global markets start pricing in a Middle East firestorm. If he backs down, Iran claims victory and keeps the very uranium Washington demanded be removed. If he negotiates, Tehran stalls. If he bombs again, Tehran retaliates. Every door opens into another room of consequences.

The Supreme Leader is not merely defying Trump personally. He is defying the entire premise of the war. The premise was that force would compel Iran to give up the key nuclear leverage it has spent decades building. Instead, Iran is now publicly hardening its red line while the world watches Trump discover that starting a war is far easier than ending one. From a prophetic perspective, this is exactly the type of Middle East madness we have warned about for years. The kings and rulers of the earth imagine themselves to be moving the pieces, but the board is bigger than they are. Iran, Israel, America, oil, nuclear weapons, Islamic ideology, military alliances, and global panic are all converging in a region God has placed at the center of end-times events. Trump may have started the war, but as you can clearly see, he is absolutely not the author of it’s ending.

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Trump Accidentally Tells The Truth On Fox News Saying His Ballroom Is Actually A ‘Shield’ For The Military Industrial Complex Bunker Running 6 Stories Below

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May 19, 2026

Geoffrey Grider

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Trump tells the truth on Fox News, call his new ballroom a ‘shield’ for the military industrial complex bunker that will exists 6 stories beneath it

President Donald Trump just said the quiet part out loud. Standing at the site of his massive new White House Ballroom project, Trump told Fox News that the ballroom will act as a “shield” for the complex being constructed underneath it. Not a decoration. Not an event space. Not merely a ‘gilded reception hall’ for state dinners and political galas. A shield. That one word changes the entire story. A ballroom is for dancing, a shield is for war, and a bunker is for survival. This is where the elites will hide from the wrath of the Lamb. Good luck with that. On a side note, we told you all this on a Podcast months ago, that the ballroom was really just a cover for a bunker, and people mocked and said we had TDS. Today Trump just validated everything we said, and then some.

“And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:” Revelation 6:15,16 (KJB)

The rulers of this world are not preparing for peace. Trump is saturated with a lust for war. They are preparing for collapse. Drones. Missiles. Civil unrest. Assassination attempts. Cyberwar. Biological threats. Nuclear brinkmanship. They know something is coming, and they are building downward. Trump’s ballroom bunker is a stunning prophetic shadow of what the Bible says the world’s elites will do when judgment comes. They will not repent, they will retreat. They will not run to God, they’ll run into the earth. “for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.”

BREAKING NEWS: Donald Trump gives update on his Ballroom, for the first time acknowledging that the ballroom is only just a ‘shield’, his words, for the massive military industrial complex underneath it. This is where the elites will attempt to wait out Armageddon. pic.twitter.com/KdH14fuQRE

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The dispensation of grace is winding down. The Church will not be hiding in bunkers when the wrath of God is poured out; we will be caught up before the time of Jacob’s trouble begins. But the Christ-rejecting world system is already preparing its subterranean refuges. They can sense something is coming. They can feel the shaking. They can read the geopolitical weather, even if they refuse to read the Bible.

Trump revealed that the ballroom will run about six stories deep, describing the building as made of “impenetrable” steel and four-inch-thick glass. He said 9,000 pounds of concrete is being used.He said the building would include a military hospital research facilities, various meeting rooms and security infrastructure tied to drone and missile defense. source

It is a sign of a ruling class preparing not for peace, not for revival, not for repentance, but for survival. And when the day finally comes that the kings of the earth flee into their underground shelters, they will discover the terrible truth written in the Book they mocked, ignored and rejected. The ballroom is the cover, but the bunker is their confession. And the King James Bible already told us where the kings of the earth would run when the wrath of the Lamb begins.