--- title: Anthony Scaramucci Fired: Shortest Tenures in Trump's Admin description: Anthony Scaramucci was fired Monday, becoming the latest casualty in a series of firings within President Donald Trump's administration canonical: https://time.com/4881442/donald-trump-anthony-scaramucci-white-house-firings/ author: Katie Reilly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-07-31T21:45:16.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T16:48:26.195Z article:section: Politics og:title: The People With the Shortest Tenures in President Trump's Administration og:description: Anthony Scaramucci was fired Monday, weeks before his official start date og:url: https://time.com/4881442/donald-trump-anthony-scaramucci-white-house-firings/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcf78e710cd848ae4/6988d7e6096a94c2ae69ef83/anthony-scaramucci-white-house-firings.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 5568 og:image:height: 3132 og:image:alt: US-POLITICS-PRESS BRIEFING og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The People With the Shortest Tenures in President Trump's Administration twitter:description: Anthony Scaramucci was fired Monday, weeks before his official start date twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcf78e710cd848ae4/6988d7e6096a94c2ae69ef83/anthony-scaramucci-white-house-firings.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # These Are the People With the Shortest Tenures in President Trump's Administration > Sponsored content. 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Anthony Scaramucci, who was briefly appointed White House communications director, speaks during a press briefing at the White House in Washington, D.C. on July 21, 2017. Jm Watson—AFP/Getty Images  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Jul 31, 2017 9:45 PM UTC Incoming White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci was fired Monday, becoming the latest casualty in a series of [staff changes and firings](http://time.com/4773605/james-comey-fired-officials/) within President Donald Trump’s administration. Trump has repeatedly denied reports of dysfunction within the White House. “No WH chaos!” he [tweeted](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/891998881009061888) Monday morning. But the White House has proven to be a revolving door for top aides in recent weeks. Here are the notable people who have served abbreviated tenures under Trump: ## Anthony Scaramucci The [former hedge fund executive](http://time.com/4868645/anthony-scaramucci-white-house-sean-spicer-what-to-know/) was fired Monday, weeks ahead of his scheduled Aug. 15 start date as White House Communications Director. His firing came just 10 days after it was announced that he would fill the post left vacant by Mike Dubke. “Anthony Scaramucci will be leaving his role as White House Communications Director,” White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement on Monday. “Mr. Scaramucci felt it was best to give Chief of Staff John Kelly a clean slate and the ability to build his own team. We wish him all the best.” ## Reince Priebus Priebus, Trump’s first White House chief of staff, was [ousted on Friday](http://time.com/4879260/donald-trump-reince-priebus-john-kelly/) and replaced with Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly. His departure came amid setbacks to Trump’s agenda, including the [failure in the Senate](http://time.com/4878724/donald-trump-gop-health-care-women/) of the Republican bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Priebus also clashed with the newly appointed Scaramucci, who [described their feud in graphic language](http://time.com/4877548/anthony-scaramucci-interview-reince-priebus/) in an [interview with the _New Yorker_](http://www.newyorker.com/news/ryan-lizza/anthony-scaramucci-called-me-to-unload-about-white-house-leakers-reince-priebus-and-steve-bannon) last week. ## Sean Spicer Spicer [resigned abruptly](http://time.com/4868546/sean-spicer-resigns-anthony-scaramucci-donald-trump/) earlier this month because of disagreements with Trump’s decision to hire Scaramucci, whose appointment was controversial among top White House staffers. ## Walter Shaub Jr. Shaub resigned as [director of the Office of Government Ethics](http://time.com/4847547/top-government-ethics-official-resigns-after-white-house-clashes/) in July after clashing repeatedly with the White House. He joined the department in 2006 under George W. Bush and became director in 2013 under Barack Obama. Shaub often criticized conflicts of interest within the Trump Administration, including Trump’s decision not to fully divest from his business and senior adviser [Kellyanne Conway’s promotion](http://time.com/4697777/kellyanne-conway-ethics-chief-white-house/) of Ivanka Trump’s clothing line. ## Mike Dubke Dubke [resigned](http://time.com/4797579/mike-dubke-communications-director-resigns/) as White House communications director in May, after serving for just three months in the post. His departure came amid reports of a staff shakeup in the White House. In his absence, Spicer acted as both communications director and press secretary. ## James Comey Trump fired the former FBI Director in May, initially citing Comey’s [handling of the investigation](http://time.com/4773246/james-comey-fired-justice-department-hillary-clinton-email-rod-rosenstein/) into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server. Trump also accused Comey of losing support within the FBI. “Those were lies, plain and simple,” Comey said when he [testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee](http://time.com/4810345/james-comey-testimony-real-time-transcript/) in June. Trump has also [linked his decision to fire Comey](http://time.com/4776737/president-donald-trump-james-comey-fired-russia-investigation/) with the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. “In fact when I decided to just do it, I said to myself, I said, you know, this Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made-up story,” Trump said in an interview in May. “It’s an excuse by the Democrats for having lost an election that they should have won.” ## Mike Flynn [Mike Flynn](http://time.com/4771349/sally-yates-michael-flynn-white-house/?iid=sr-link4) was asked to [resign from his post](http://time.com/4670930/white-house-president-trump-asked-for-flynns-resignation/) as National Security Advisor in February, after he was found to have misled Vice President Mike Pence about discussions with the Russian Ambassador to the U.S. ## Sally Yates Acting Attorney General [Sally Yates,](http://time.com/4838761/sally-yates-donald-trump-travel-ban-aspen/) who was an Obama appointee, was [fired in January](http://time.com/4654665/president-trump-sally-yates-immigration-order/) after she questioned the constitutionality of Trump’s immigration ban and refused to defend it in court. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4881442/donald-trump-anthony-scaramucci-white-house-firings/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4881442/donald-trump-anthony-scaramucci-white-house-firings/"},"headline":"These Are the People With the Shortest Tenures in President Trump's Administration","datePublished":"2017-07-31T21:45:16.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T16:48:26.195Z","description":"Anthony Scaramucci was fired Monday, weeks before his official start date","url":"https://time.com/4881442/donald-trump-anthony-scaramucci-white-house-firings/","keywords":["White House","Donald Trump","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcf78e710cd848ae4/6988d7e6096a94c2ae69ef83/anthony-scaramucci-white-house-firings.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Katie Reilly","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcf78e710cd848ae4/6988d7e6096a94c2ae69ef83/anthony-scaramucci-white-house-firings.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"US-POLITICS-PRESS BRIEFING","caption":"US-POLITICS-PRESS BRIEFING","creditText":"Jm Watson—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/white-house/","name":"White House"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4881442/donald-trump-anthony-scaramucci-white-house-firings/","name":"These Are the People With the Shortest Tenures in President Trump's Administration"}}]}] ```