Latest departure
519
days in the role
John Bolton
Fired on 10 September 2019
Trump's 3rd national security adviser
Trump announced that he fired Bolton over Twitter, just days after reports emerged that the then national security adviser opposed the president’s secret plan to hold peace talks with the Taliban at Camp David.
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882
days in the role
Dan Coats
Resigned on 15 August 2019
Trump's 1st National intelligence director
The relationship between Coats and Trump was marked by turbulence. Coats’ public, and sometimes personal, disagreements with Trump over policy and intelligence included Russian interference in the US election and North Korean nuclear capabilities.
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806
days in the role
Alex Acosta
Resigned on 12 July 2019
Trump's 1st Labor secretary
Acosta was under fire for having granted Jeffrey Epstein immunity from federal prosecution in 2008, following sex trafficking ring investigation. The president told reporters Acosta called him and that it was the secretary’s decision.
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687
days in the role
Sarah Sanders
Resigned on 13 June 2019
Trump's 2nd White House press secretary
Sanders, who had not held a press briefing for a record 94 days on the day she announced her departure, has been a hugely divisive figure, having repeatedly made false claims on behalf of the president - including about the circumstances around FBI director James Comey's firing.
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487
days in the role
Kirstjen Nielsen
Resigned on 7 April 2019
Trump's 2nd Homeland security secretary
Nielsen defended Trump’s most controversial policies, including demands for a border wall, which caused a 35-day government shutdown, his declaration of a national emergency to access funds for the wall, and the family separating 'zero-tolerance policy' at the border with Mexico.
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773
days in the role
Linda McMahon
Resigned on 29 March 2019
Trump's 1st Administrator of the Small Business Administration
The former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment was one of the five women serving in Trump’s cabinet. She stepped down by saying “it had truly been the honor of a lifetime to serve our country in this administration”. Reports suggest that McMahon will move on to run the pro-Trump Super Pac, America First
246
days in the role
Bill Shine
Resigned on 8 March 2019
Trump's 4th White House communications director
Trump became disillusioned with the former Fox News executive after reports claimed that Shine failed to grasp the wider media ecosphere, past his former employers. In a statement by Sarah Sanders she clarified that they expect Shine to serve as a “senior advisor” to Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign.
710
days in the role
James Mattis
Resigned on 31 December 2018
Trump's 1st secretary of defense
Resigned on Dec. 20, one day after Trump decided to pull troops out of Syria. Another reason cited for his departure in his resignation letter was differing viewpoints with the President. Mattis was in favor of NATO as opposed to Trump.
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654
days in the role
Ryan Zinke
Left on 15 December 2018
Trump's 1st interior secretary
Zinke's legacy as head of the interior department will be advancing oil and gas drilling and mining on or near public land, rolling back protections for threatened species and shrunking national monuments. He's quiting because he could not “justify spending thousands of dollars defending myself and my family against false allegations,” he said. He was not worried about spending $139,000 for his department on three sets of double doors.
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142
days in the role
John Kelly
Announced on 10 December 2018
Trump's 2nd chief of staff
The retired Marine Corps general has spent 16 months in the position, replacing Reince Priebus. Trump reportedly wanted him to impose order on a White House riven by factionalism and rivalry. Instead of settling things, Kelly v Trump became a fixture of DC gossip. Bob Woodward marked that in his book Fear, noting that Kelly called Trump an “idiot” at the head of a “Crazytown” administration.
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636
days in the role
Jeff Sessions
Fired on 7 November 2018
Trump's 1st Attorney general
The president has attacked Sessions in public, since the attorney general recused himself from the Mueller investigations in March 2017, within two months of Trump taking office. In May 2017, the deputy attorney general, Rod Rosenstein appointed Mueller, to oversee the investigation after Trump fired FBI chief James Comey. That investigation continued ever since without Sessions being involved.
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620
days in the role
Nikki Haley
Resigned on 9 October 2018
Trump's 1st US ambassador to UN
A former governor of South Carolina, Nikki Haley has been one of Trump’s most high-profile lieutenants, serving as the administration’s ambassador to the United Nations. There, most notably, she withdrew the US from the UN’s human rights council, which she went on to describe as a “cesspool of political bias”.
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586
days in the role
Don McGahn
Announced on 29 August 2018
Trump's 1st White House counsel
McGahn worked as an attorney on Trump’s presidential campaign before taking his job in the White House. He drew the spotlight after a bombshell New York Times report said he had been cooperating extensively with Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian election interference. The president called him "a John Dean type ‘RAT’", alluding to the attorney in the same position who turned on Nixon.
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503
days in the role
Scott Pruitt
Resigned on 5 July 2018
Trump's 1st head of the Environmental Protection Agency
Rather than spend the EPA’s budget fighting climate change, something he publicly questioned, Scott Pruitt was repeatedly caught spending taxpayer money on a few personal indulgences. Private and first-class flights, a 24/7 security detail and a $43,000 soundproof phone booth are just a few of many questionable purchases. After too many scandals to count, he eventually resigned. Now he can fully dedicate himself to his wife’s Chick-fil-A franchise, an opportunity he brokered through his EPA contacts.
445
days in the role
Tom Bossert
Resigned on 10 April 2018
Trump's 1st homeland security adviser
A veteran of the Bush administration, Bossert's was the face of the organization in a busy 2017 hurricane season but his most prominent moment under Trump came when he was victim of a prank email by someone claiming to be Jared Kushner. He resigned briefly after John Bolton arrived as Trump’s national security adviser.
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249
days in the role
Michael Anton
Left on 8 April 2018
Trump's 1st spokesman, National Security Council
You may know him as Publius Decius Mus, a pseudonym he used in the Claremont Review when comparing the 2016 election to Flight 93, the plane that crashed in a field in Pennsylvania on 9/11.
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407
days in the role
David Shulkin
Fired on 28 March 2018
Trump's 1st secretary of veterans affairs
Brought to the VA under Barack Obama, Shulkin was the only Trump nominee to be unanimously confirmed. But rumours of a toxic atmosphere within his department started to circulate, policy disagreements with Trump nominees were reported and a taxpayer-funded trip to Europe with his wife caused controversy. Shulkin said he learned he was fired when Trump tweeted the news. The White House – attempting to place a defense official in temporary charge while Trump's personal physician was confirmed – insisted he had resigned.
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395
days in the role
HR McMaster
Left on 22 March 2018
Trump's 2nd national security adviser
A serving army general, McMaster succeeded Michael Flynn and brought military experience to a key role. But he was never considered an ideological fit for the president, with some advisers repeatedly accusing the general of being hostile to elements of the Trump agenda. Eventually McMaster resigned, to be replaced by the Bush-era hawk John Bolton.
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264
days in the role
John Dowd
Resigned on 22 March 2018
Trump's 1st lead lawyer
Trump’s lead attorney in the Russia investigation resigned, protesting his “love” for the president, days after it was reported that he would be replaced by Joseph DiGenova. In the event, he wasn't.
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420
days in the role
Andrew McCabe
Fired on 16 March 2018
Trump's 1st deputy director of the FBI
Fired 28 hours before he would have retired with full benefits, making his seemingly the most vindictive of all Trump's firings. McCabe had already resigned, in January, after repeated public chiding by Trump on Twitter. He has suggested his dismissal was part of an effort to undermine the investigation into Russian interference in the US election.
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405
days in the role
Rex Tillerson
Fired on 13 March 2018
Trump's 1st secretary of state
Tillerson had reportedly been considering resigning since the summer of 2017, only to be talked out of it by the vice-president, Mike Pence. Tensions simmered, though, particularly after it was reported that the secretary of state had called the president a “****ing moron”. Finally, Trump fired him.
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99
days in the role
Steve Goldstein
Fired on 13 March 2018
Trump's 1st under secretary of state for public diplomacy and affairs
After releasing a statement that Rex Tillerson did not know why he was fired and found out via Twitter, Goldstein was fired for contradicting the official account.
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416
days in the role
John McEntee
Fired on 12 March 2018
Trump's 1st personal aide
McEntee got his start on the campaign team, as a trip director. In the White House he was Trump's personal aide until reports circulated that he was struggling to obtain the necessary security clearances. Abruptly fired and escorted out, he then joined Trump’s 2020 campaign.
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410
days in the role
Gary Cohn
Resigned on 6 March 2018
Trump's 1st director of the National Economic Council
The former Goldman Sachs No 2 was a rare experienced professional in the Trump White House. He was also a Democrat who reportedly called the president “dumb as ****”. Trump's reaction to the lethal white-supremacist rally in Charlottesville in August wasn't enough to make him resign. Trump’s plan to levy tariffs on steel and aluminum was. Cohn walked.
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405
days in the role
Roberta Jacobson
Resigned on 1 March 2018
Trump's 1st US ambassador to Mexico
Jacobson, an Obama appointee, had to wait for a drawn-out confirmation process before taking the role in Mexico. By April 2016, when she finally got in, Trump's wall campaign had gathered momentum, sparking tense relations between Mexico and the US. She lasted a little over a year under Trump before resigning, citing how the relationship between the two countries was "at a crutical moment".
196
days in the role
Hope Hicks
Resigned on 28 February 2018
Trump's 3rd White House communications director
Despite having zero political experience when she joined the Trump team in 2015, Hicks quickly gained Trump’s trust and rose to become an indispensable aide and, eventually, the president’s fourth White House communications director. Her fall, as sudden as her rise was swift, came one day after she testified before the House intelligence committee and admitted that telling “white lies” was part of her job.
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332
days in the role
Josh Raffel
Resigned on 27 February 2018
Trump's 1st senior communications aid
A Democrat who reportedly donated to Hillary Clinton’s campaign, Raffel was close to Kushner and Ivanka Trump in his communications role and a go-to figure in any PR crisis. He must have been a busy man before he resigned, citing "family reasons".
274
days in the role
Rachel Brand
Resigned on 20 February 2018
Trump's 1st associate attorney general
Rachel Brand, a Trump appointee, spent nine months in the Department of Justice as they endured a wave of attacks by Donald Trump and his supporters. She decided enough was enough and took leave to work at Walmart instead – as a head of global governance.
385
days in the role
David Sorensen
Resigned on 9 February 2018
Trump's 1st White House speechwriter
In the same week as Rob Porter headed for the door, Sorensen left the White House amid domestic abuse allegations which he denied. He “didn’t want the White House to have to deal with this distraction”, he said.
383
days in the role
Rob Porter
Resigned on 7 February 2018
Trump's 1st White House staff secretary
Porter resigned after both his ex-wives went public with allegations of domestic abuse, which he denied. The chief of staff, John Kelly, initially defended Porter but later said: “There is no place for domestic violence in society”.
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358
days in the role
John Feeley
Resigned on 13 January 2018
Trump's 1st US ambassador to Panama
The US ambassador to Panama resigned telling the US state department he no longer felt he was able to serve Trump. In his resignation letter he mentioned that he “signed an oath to serve the president in an apolitical fashion”. He later stated that he “would be honor bound to resign” if he could not.
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327
days in the role
Omarosa Manigault-Newman
Left on 13 December 2017
Trump's 1st director of communications, Office of Public Liaison
The former reality TV star never had a clear role in the administration. Said a White House deputy press secretary, on her exit: "Omarosa was fired three times on The Apprentice and this was the fourth time we let her go.” After her dismissal, she starred in Celebrity Big Brother. Critical of the administration’s direction, she said: “It’s going to not be OK. It’s not. It’s so bad.”
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231
days in the role
Tom Price
Resigned on 29 September 2017
Trump's 1st secretary of health and human services
Trump's first health secretary chartered private air travel for himself to the tune of more than $1m. He apologized and offered to pay back the money. Trump called Price a “very fine man” – but said he did not like the “optics”. Price resigned, completing the shortest tenure of any HHS chief in history.
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243
days in the role
Keith Schiller
Unknown on 20 September 2017
Trump's 1st director of Oval Office operations
Trump’s longtime bodyguard was reportedly unhappy with a nearly halved paycheck. “I hate everyone in the White House! There are a few exceptions, but I hate them!” he was quoted as saying in Vanity Fair. Later, it was revealed that he was advising the RNC on security for their 2020 convention, picking up $15,000 a month.
217
days in the role
Sebastian Gorka
Left on 25 August 2017
Trump's 1st Deputy assistant to the president
A fringe Anglo-Hungarian rightwing presence with a vaguely defined White House role, the self-professed gun enthusiast notoriously told Recoil magazine he carried two guns and a copy of the US constitution with him every day. The New York Times reported that another staff switch did for Gorka – the president’s then incoming chief of staff, John Kelly, personally forced him out.
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210
days in the role
Steve Bannon
Left on 18 August 2017
Trump's 1st White House chief strategist
The campaign manager-turned-White House strategist returned to Breitbart, saying “I’ve got my hands back on my weapons” and intending to go "to war for Trump”. But then the Guardian obtained a copy of Fire and Fury, Michael Wolff's tell-all about the first year of the Trump administration, in which Bannon was extensively quoted and called Donald Trump Jr “treasonous”. Bridges burned, Bannon lost his Breitbart role and set himself up as a sort of freelance far-right gadfly.
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10
days in the role
Anthony Scaramucci
Fired on 31 July 2017
Trump's 2nd White House communications director
He came, he mooched, he got fired. The communications director's all-too-brief tenure – 10 whole days from appetiser to coffee and the door – will forever be remembered for his decision to call a New Yorker writer and unleash a profanity-laden tirade about his White House colleagues. The result? A mainstream media debate about the rights and wrongs of publishing the phrase: “I’m not trying to suck my own cock.”
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192
days in the role
George Gigicos
Left on 31 July 2017
Trump's 1st White House director of scheduling
“Wow, what a crowd” Trump told a rally in Phoenix, “what a crowd.” Days later, dissatisfied with said crowd amid reports the venue had been half-empty, he dispensed with the loyal aide who had run the rally.
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189
days in the role
Reince Priebus
Resigned on 28 July 2017
Trump's 1st chief of staff
The former Republican National Committee chair spent seven months in the White House, at no point free of speculation about the timing of his exit. He was supposed to bring inside-the-beltway savvy to Trump's team of outsiders. Instead, after a tenure filled with palace intrigue and political blunders. the president tweeted he was "proud of him!" – and showed him the way to the door.
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182
days in the role
Sean Spicer
Resigned on 21 July 2017
Trump's 1st White House press secretary
Spicer spent his first day on the job berating journalists for accurately reporting the size of Trump’s inauguration crowd. Things went downhill from there. Highlights included a snafu over his choice of words when discussing the Holocaust, trying to define the difference between a border wall and a fence and an SNL impersonation by Melissa McCarthy that went viral, Trump was reportedly angered to see a key male aide impersonated by a woman. Spicer resigned after disagreeing with Trump over the hiring of Scaramucci.
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167
days in the role
Walter Shaub
Resigned on 6 July 2017
Trump's 1st director, US Office of Government Ethics
When the top ethics watchdog in the federal government resigns, a president may expect the press to have some questions. When he resigns and takes a parting shot in which he reminds the president that "public service is a public trust", those questions are bound to be pointed. In the case of Shaub, another Obama holdover, they were.
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73
days in the role
Mike Dubke
Left on 18 May 2017
Trump's 1st White House communications director
Trump's second White House communications director was a longtime Republican operative brought in to lighten the load on the first, a struggling Sean Spicer. He resigned shortly before the president's first trip overseas, citing personal reasons. Shortly after, he said he regretted not firing leakers.
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110
days in the role
KT McFarland
Left on 10 May 2017
Trump's 1st deputy national security adviser designate
Hired as a deputy to Flynn, the former Fox News analyst stepped down after McMaster essentially hired her replacement, Dina Powell. Trump then sought to nominate McFarland as US ambassador to Singapore, a notion rejected by a Republican-majority Senate. She withdrew.
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109
days in the role
James Comey
Fired on 9 May 2017
Trump's 1st director of the FBI
Comey and Trump had a love-hate relationship. After the FBI director announced that the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server had reopened, 11 days before polling day in 2016, Trump was full of praise. In May 2017, though, Trump ousted the FBI director, saying: “The way [Comey] handled the conclusion of the email investigation was wrong.” Unofficially, the FBI's investigation into alledged collusion with Russia might have been a factor. Comey thinks it was – and has said so in a blockbuster book that has set the two men at war.
101
days in the role
Angella Reid
Fired on 1 May 2017
Trump's 1st chief usher
The White House usher, the second African American and the first woman to hold the job, was appointed by Obama in 2011. She was fired in May, amid reports that she would have been shown the door sooner had first lady Melania Trump moved more quickly to fill key posts.
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Vivek Murthy
Fired on 21 April 2017
Trump's 1st surgeon general
An Obama appointment who was never going to last long, having incurred the wrath of the National Rifle Association by calling gun control a “healthcare issue”.
69
days in the role
Katie Walsh
Left on 30 March 2017
Trump's 1st White House deputy chief of staff for implementation
Deputy chief of staff to Priebus, an establishment figure in her own right, Walsh came under pressure from Bannon and Jared Kushner. She resigned and was reassigned to a pro-Trump outside body.
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Caroline Wiles
Resigned on 16 February 2017
Trump's 1st director of scheduling
Served as Trump’s Florida campaign manager but was deemed unfit to serve as the White House’s director of scheduling after she failed a mandatory background check the same day as five other White House insiders.
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Michael Flynn
Resigned on 13 February 2017
Trump's 1st national security adviser
Trump's first national security adviser lasted a mere 23 days after it was revealed that he misled Vice-President Mike Pence about his communications with Russian officials. He later pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI, striking a plea deal including a pledge for “full cooperation” with special counsel Robert Mueller.
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Gerrit Lansing
Resigned on 9 February 2017
Trump's 1st White House chief digital officer
Gerrit Lansing, previously head of the digital department for the Republican National Committee, was looking to pick up a similar role under the new administration. Just a month in, he failed a mandatory background check due to his personal investments.
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Sally Yates
Fired on 30 January 2017
Trump's 1st attorney general (acting)
An Obama holdover, Yates served as acting attorney general while Jeff Sessions's nomination made its way through Congress. Knowing her days were numbered, she refused to enforce Trump’s first travel ban, saying she was not “convinced that the executive order is lawful”. She was fired within hours.
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