Nobody said the job was easy.
Former North Carolina Congressman Mark Meadows, just weeks on the job as President Trump’s chief of staff, has already been brought to tears at work on several occasions, according to a report in the New York Times.
The waterworks took place at least twice during meetings with White House staff and in at least one case was witnessed by Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner. The burst of emotions resulted from meetings discussing internal staffing changes.
Though he was long known for an emotional style in Congress, reps for the White House denied Meadows had shed any tears since coming to the West Wing.
Friends and colleagues in the House said they worried that Trump might be too tough a nut for the Tar Heel pol.
“My worry for Mark is that the president is drawn to him as a person of quality, but now that he has him, he may just chew him up and spit him out the way he has done with so many people he has brought in to work for him,” Rep. Jamie Raskin, a Maryland Democrat, told the paper.
Meadows became Trump’s fourth chief of staff since taking the job over from Mick Mulvaney at the end of March.