Warning: this list may need to be added to quickly given the volatility of the Trump White House. But for now, below are the high profile people who have left President Trump’s team since he took office just over a year ago. It’s a revolving door on hyperspeed. This doesn’t include most of the State Department employees who’ve left and not been replaced — a significant number in a depleted State Department under Rex Tillerson’s leadership.
Will Rex be next to join the list? Or the consistently belittled Attorney General Jeff Sessions? Probably not even the president knows, since just a month ago he was threatening North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un with hyperbolic, 7th-grade style tweets — and now he wants to meet him asap. Here’s the list:
Hope Hicks – White House Communications Director (quit, after congressional testimony in which she admitted lying)
Anthony Scaramucci – White House Communications Director who communicated far too much in first week on job (fired)
Michael Dubke – White House Communications Director (quit after 3 months)
(Note: if you sense a pattern, you’re right. White House Communications Director is not an easy position.)
Sean Spicer – gum-chewing equivocator and Press Secretary (quit)
Gary Cohn – White House Chief Economic Adviser, Director of the National Economic Council (quit)
Steve Bannon – Nationalist Svengali and White House Chief Strategist (quit/fired?)
Omarosa Manigault – Director of Communications for the Office of Public Liaison (quit)
Rob Porter – White House Staff Secretary accused of physical abuse of two former wives (fired)
Dina Powell – National Security official but really a banker returned to Goldman Sachs (quit)
Andrew McCabe – FBI Deputy Director (quit)
Tom Price – Health and Human Service Director (fired)
Sebastian Gorka – Bannon buddy left when Steve did, now at Fox (quit)
Sally Yates – acting Attorney General out early after not enforcing Trump immigration ban (fired)
Reince Priebus – White House Chief of Staff and Bannon foil (quit, after Trump’s continual criticism)
Walter Schaub – Office of Government Ethics Director departed after six months because, you know, ethics? (quit)
Katie Walsh – White House deputy chief of staff (quit)
James Comey – FBI Director ousted, but only after pounding Hillary Clinton in the final weeks of the campaign (fired)
And, of course, Michael Flynn — National Security adviser, Russian pal, Mueller stool-on-call, and guilty pleader (quit, under pressure)
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