Another Kelly Revelation: The Tan Suit

-        "General Kelly, looking back over your tenure as White House Chief of Staff, can’t you think of one instance when you were able to temper President Trump’s mercurial nature?  I see you’re smiling, so there must be something."

-        "Well, there was this one time.  It’s hardly worth mentioning, but …"

-        "Please, I think we would all like to know."

-        "Okay, there was this one evening in August 2017, not long after I came on board, when the President tells me, “Just so you know, tomorrow I am going to wear a tan suit.”  I felt an immediate wave of panic.  I mean, can you imagine Donald Trump (holding hands to midriff) in a tan suit?  Our world standing was already falling after Helsinki, so I knew I had to do something."

-        "That would be a shocking sartorial choice for a man who wears the dark blue power suit like a uniform.  Why the change?"

-        "Apparently his son had gotten him a violet paisley tie for Father’s Day and kept asking why he never wore it.  He just thought it would go better with a tan suit."

-        "So how did you persuade him not to wear the tan suit?

-        "At first, I asked him to imagine addressing a rally of his cores supporters in a tan suit.  What would they think?"

-        "And that didn't do the trick?"

-        "No.  But then I remembered that if there’s one thing he hates more than paying taxes its unfavorable comparisons to his predecessor, so I reminded him that Obama had also gone with a tan suit once.  I think even he realized that there was no way he could pull it off as well."

-        "So he relented."

-        "Never heard another word about it."

-        "You must have been proud."

-        "You know, I wish I could have convinced him to go easy on his praise of Vladimir Putin, stop calling the German Chancellor “that old dude,” or fire his idiot son-in-law, but a win’s a win."