John Kelly splits with Trump on The Wall

General John Kelly, erstwhile White House chief of staff and previously Secretary of Homeland Security, has been speaking his mind for the first time since leaving Donald Trump's employ. Being a sensible chap and not out for any sort of revenge or a desperate need to reveal all, Kelly gave a few tidbits away but nothing really to make the president explode. What he did say during an on-stage interview at Duke University in North Carolina was that it would be a waste of money to build a wall along the whole length of the US/Mexico border - roughly 2.000 miles. It was not quite accusing Trump of being wrong and wasteful but he did go on to say, to justify his remark, that the vast majority of immigrants who tried to cross the border did so for economic reasons, to make better lives for themselves, and for that Kelly was in sympathy. Oh dear, Trump won't like that. Has he tweeted yet? He is convinced - by whom I'm not sure - that the border is being overrun by drug traffikers, rapists, criminals of every kind and generally people who have no right to see the great United States as a refuge from terror, poverty and malnutrition. Kelly saw the reality of the border when he was in chharge of homeland security and must have brought up his views many times when Trump was fuming about wanting to get on with the construction of the wall. It's partly why Trump decided he had had enough of the retired four-star general and went, instead, to Mick Mulvaney to run the shop. I liked the advice Kelly gave Mulvaney as he took over at the White House. Tell the president what he needs to hear "and then run for it". Hahaha. I bet that's good advice.