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Many political appointees of Donald Trump, the 45th president of the United States, resigned or were dismissed. Multiple publications have called attention to the record-setting turnover rate in the first year of the Trump Administration.[1][2][3] Several Trump appointees, including National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci, and Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price have had the shortest service tenures in the history of their respective offices.[a]
Trump justified the instability, saying: "We have acting people. The reason they are acting is because I'm seeing how I like them, and I'm liking a lot of them very, very much. There are people who have done a bad job, and I let them go. If you call that turmoil, I don't call that turmoil. I say that is being smart. That's what we do."[4]
For comprehensiveness, the list below includes, in addition to dismissals and resignations, routine job changes such as promotions (e.g., Gina Haspel from CIA Deputy Director to Director), officials moving to a comparable position (e.g., John F. Kelly from Secretary of Homeland Security to Chief of Staff), and acting or temporary officials being replaced by permanent ones. The list does not include many lower-level positions, however, such as that of executive director of the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness, Matthew Doherty, whom Trump dismissed in November 2019,[5] without a replacement to lead the council that was created in 1987. But some less prominent officials are listed because their departure was newsworthy.
Officials who resigned in the aftermath of the 2021 United States Capitol attack, well into the then-underway presidential transition of Trump's successor Joe Biden, when their term would have ended soon anyway, are also listed on this page.
- ^ Keith, Tamara (January 19, 2018). "Turnover In Trump's White House Is 'Record-Setting,' And It Isn't Even Close". NPR. Archived from the original on April 3, 2018. Retrieved April 1, 2018.
- ^ Bach, Natasha (December 28, 2017). "Trump Staff Turnover Hits 34%—a First Year Presidential Record". Fortune. Archived from the original on April 13, 2018. Retrieved April 1, 2018.
- ^ Kanetkar, Riddhima (February 1, 2018). "Brenda Fitzgerald Joins Long List Of Short-Serving Trump Administration Officials". International Business Times. Archived from the original on February 1, 2018. Retrieved August 18, 2017.
- ^ "Remarks by President Trump During Visit to the Border Wall". whitehouse.gov. September 18, 2019. Archived from the original on January 20, 2021. Retrieved November 7, 2019 – via National Archives.
- ^ Stein, Jeff (November 16, 2019). "Trump administration ousts top homelessness official as White House prepares broad crackdown". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on December 29, 2019.
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