Wouldn't "crazy and foaming at the mouth with irrational hatred" against someone crazy and foaming at the mouth with irrational hatred be a double negative, and therefore a positive statement?
Trump's team wanted Gen. John Kelly to lie. He followed orders. They did not want him to make an apology. He stuck to the Trump script. John Kelly has gained Trump's confidence.
He will survive another week in the White House. (At Frederica's expense, of course.)