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A national security adviser, a communications director, a press secretary and now a chief of staff — all have come and gone in the first six months of Donald Trump's presidency.
The demise of Reince Priebus was announced in a series of Tweets from the President late on Friday afternoon DC time.
General Kelly is a retired US Marine Corps four-star general who has led the Department of Homeland Security since Donald Trump's inauguration.
Mr Priebus, as the former chairman of the Republican National Committee, is a key establishment figure.
His departure follows the resignation of former RNC spokesman Sean Spicer as Press Secretary just this time last week.
It may reflect Donald Trump's desire to disengage from the party, especially after it has repeatedly failed to implement his core promise on healthcare reform.
Scaramucci's foreboding message for Priebus
Mr Priebus is now the shortest-serving White House Chief of Staff in modern American political history.
He's said to have resigned on Thursday after a brutal attack from new communications director Anthony Scaramucci in a conversation with a reporter from the New Yorker.
Mr Scaramucci and Mr Trump are both proud New Yorkers and in part the latest news may reflect a split between them and the Washington establishment.
"Reince is a f*****g paranoid schizophrenic, a paranoiac," Mr Scaramucci told New Yorker reporter Ryan Lizza.
He suspected Mr Priebus had leaked a publicly available financial document to get at him, telling the reporter he had contacted the FBI and Justice Department.
"He'll be asked to resign shortly," he said.
Lizza says the conversation took place after he tweeted that Mr Scaramucci was having dinner with the President, talk show host Sean Hannity and former Fox executive Bill Shine.
White House lost list:
Michael Flynn, former national security advisor, resigned over contact with Russia.
Reince Priebus, former chief of staff, fired and replaced by General John Kelly.
Sean Spicer, former press secretary, resigned reportedly after giving the President an ultimatum over Anthony Scaramucci's hiring.
Mike Dubke, former communications director, resigned after three months and gave no reason for leaving.
He says the Donald Trump loyalist called him, furious that the details of the dinner had leaked.
"Who leaked that to you?" he asked, according to the reporter who refused to answer.
"What I'm going to do is, I will eliminate everyone in the comms team and we'll start over," Mr Scaramucci responded.
The reporter writes that the leaking of the dinner was evidence to Mr Scaramucci that rivals in the White House, who opposed his appointment, were still plotting against him, particularly Mr Priebus.
End of another rough week
Mr Trump brought his Wall Street buddy and entrepreneur Mr Scaramucci into the White House team last week, to revamp the White House communications department.
The appointment was opposed by Mr Preibus and Mr Spicer, who quit in protest.
That day, Mr Scaramucci took to the podium himself and described his relationship with Mr Priebus as being like "two brothers who sometimes fight".
On CNN, he clarified the nature of that brotherhood comparing their friendship to the biblical sons of Adam and Eve.
"Some brothers are like Cain and Abel, other brothers can fight with each other and get along," he said.
In the Bible, Cain murders Abel.
It's been quite a week in the White House with the future of Attorney-General Jeff Sessions still in doubt after a series of Twitter attacks from the President.
The role of chief strategist may also be in doubt after comments from Mr Scaramucci in the same New Yorker article that Steve Bannon is trying to build his personal "brand off the f*****g strength of the President".
"I'm not Steve Bannon, I'm not trying to suck my own c**k," he's said to have told Lizza.
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