TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Several of President Donald Trump’s outside advisers have told him over the past week he requires neither a chief of staff nor a communications director, at least in the traditional definition of those jobs, according to a person familiar with the conversations. Trump has absorbed the advice, but offered little indication whether he’s interested in taking it, the person said. He’s been warned by other confidants that it’s impossible to run the West Wing without a chief of staff. There are no signs Trump is ready to dismiss top aide John Kelly. But the option of running his White House without a chief of staff has been planted in Trump’s mind, and he’s not rejected it outright, the person said.”
-Kevin Liptak, “Trump being told he doesn’t need a communications director or chief of staff,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, Mar. 29, 2018 10:51am