Why Trump Keeps Firing People

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So the reason Trump has been firing senior White House advisors is so he can clear out the building before converting it into luxury condominiums. He expects to lease it back to future presidents if he can negotiate a fair and balanced price.

 

He's been clearing offices out at the rate of one every three days. Following is a list of the 166 he's dumped so far.

 

This list includes the artist Chuck Close, the author Jhumpa Lahiri and all but one of the other fourteen members of the President’s Commission on the Arts and Humanities. They resigned after the Boy President refused to condemn the actions of murdering white supremacists in Charlottesville, pointing out in their letter of resignation that ignoring his hateful rhetoric would have made them complicit in his words and actions.

 

The list includes Preet Bharara and every other US Attorney who was in place at the start of the Boy President’s administration.

 

The list includes Paul Clement and other top-tier lawyers at Kirkland Ellis, Winston & Strawn and other notable firms who were asked to join the president’s legal team but declined.

 

The list includes Rex Tillerson and other senior Cabinet members who were fired for disloyalty.

 

The list includes Michael Flynn and other serious criminals in the administration. Not all criminals in the administration were fired, of course — that would have emptied the White House — but most of those who have been indicted were let go.

 

The list includes Über CEO Travis Kalanick, Disney CEO Bob Iger and other senior business executives who were members of the Strategic and Policy Forum but resigned when they realized the president was a moron.

 

The list includes Ronny Lynn Jackson and others who had been nominated for positions in the administration but resigned when they failed background checks or the photos that caught them in flagrante with Russian boytoys were published.

 

The list includes people who were seriously developmentally disabled, like Sebastian Gorka, as well as those who were excellent at their jobs, like Sally Yates.

 

The list includes Sean Spicer, Anthony Scaramucci, Mike Dubke and several other — but not all — of the Boy President’s Communications Directors.

 

The list unfortunately does NOT include the most seriously unqualified Cabinet directors in the history of the republic. People like Ben Carson, Betsy deVos, Ryan Zinke, Rick Perry, Kirstjen Nielsen and Tom Price are still dragging their respective (though not respectable) departments (and with them the country) into the sixteenth century.

 

The list unfortunately does NOT include members of the Trump family, every one of whom is a felon by virtue of their violations of the emoluments clause of the United States Constitution.

 

With that, the 166 casualties so far, in chronological order…

 

1. Paul Manafort

Trump Campaign Chairman

resigned on 08-Nov-16

 

2. Michael P. Botticelli

Director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy

resigned on 20-Jan-17

 

3. Sally Caroline Yates

Acting Attorney General

was fired on 30-Jan-17

 

4. Travis Cordell Kalanick

Über CEO and Strategic and Policy Forum member

resigned on 02-Feb-17

 

5. Dana Boente

Attorney General (acting)

resigned on 09-Feb-17

 

6. Gerrit Lansing

White House Chief Digital Advisor

resigned on 09-Feb-17

 

7. Michael Flynn

National Security Adviser

resigned on 13-Feb-17

 

8. Craig Deare

NSC Senior Director for Western Hemisphere Affairs

was fired on 17-Feb-17

 

9. Joseph Keith Kellogg, Jr.

National Security Advisor

was fired on 20-Feb-17

 

10. Felicia C. Adams

U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Mississippi

was forced to resign on 10-Mar-17

 

11. George L. Beck Jr.

U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama

was forced to resign on 10-Mar-17

 

12. A. Lee Bentley, III

U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Florida

was forced to resign on 10-Mar-17

 

13. Preet Bharara

U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York

was forced to resign on 10-Mar-17

 

14. Daniel Bogden

U.S. Attorney for the District of Nevada

was forced to resign on 10-Mar-17

 

15. Kenyen R. Brown

U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama

was forced to resign on 10-Mar-17

 

16. Richard G. Callahan

U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri

was forced to resign on 10-Mar-17

 

17. Robert Capers

U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York

was forced to resign on 10-Mar-17

 

18. David A. Capp

U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana

was forced to resign on 10-Mar-17

 

19. Michael W. Cotter

U.S. Attorney for the District of Montana

was forced to resign on 10-Mar-17

 

20. Christopher A. Crofts

U.S. Attorney for the District of Wyoming

was forced to resign on 10-Mar-17

 

21. Deirdre M. Daly

U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut

was forced to resign on 10-Mar-17

 

22. Gregory K. Davis

U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi

was forced to resign on 10-Mar-17

 

23. Eileen Decker

U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California

was forced to resign on 10-Mar-17

 

24. Thomas E. Delahanty II

U.S. Attorney for the District of Maine

was forced to resign on 10-Mar-17

 

25. Tammy Dickinson

U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri

was forced to resign on 10-Mar-17

 

26. Zachary T. Fardon

U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois

was forced to resign on 10-Mar-17

 

27. Stephanie A. Finley

U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana

was forced to resign on 10-Mar-17

 

28. Paul J. Fishman

U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey

was forced to resign on 10-Mar-17

 

29. John P. Fishwick, Jr.

U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Virginia

was forced to resign on 10-Mar-17

 

30. Deborah R. Gilg

U.S. Attorney for the District of Nebraska

was forced to resign on 10-Mar-17

 

31. J. Walter Green

U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Louisiana

was forced to resign on 10-Mar-17

 

32. Mark F. Green

U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Oklahoma

was forced to resign on 10-Mar-17

 

33. Richard S. Hartunian

U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of New York

was forced to resign on 10-Mar-17

 

34. John W. Huber

U.S. Attorney for the District of Utah

was forced to resign on 10-Mar-17

 

35. Alicia Limtiaco

U.S. Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands

was forced to resign on 10-Mar-17

 

36. Karen L. Loeffler

U.S. Attorney for the District of Alaska

was forced to resign on 10-Mar-17

 

37. Andrew M. Luger

U.S. Attorney for the District of Minnesota

was forced to resign on 10-Mar-17

 

38. Kenneth Magidson

U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Texas

was forced to resign on 10-Mar-17

 

39. Damon P. Martinez

U.S. Attorney for the District of New Mexico

was forced to resign on 10-Mar-17

 

40. Barbara L. McQuade

U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan

was forced to resign on 10-Mar-17

 

41. Florence T. Nakakuni

U.S. Attorney for the District of Hawaii

was forced to resign on 10-Mar-17

 

42. Peter F. Neronha

U.S. Attorney for the District of Rhode Island

was forced to resign on 10-Mar-17

 

43. Charles M. Oberly, III

U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaware

was forced to resign on 10-Mar-17

 

44. Michael C. Ormsby

U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington

was forced to resign on 10-Mar-17

 

45. Kenneth Allen Polite, Jr.

U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana

was forced to resign on 10-Mar-17

 

46. Carole Rendon

U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio

was forced to resign on 10-Mar-17

 

47. Emily Gray Rice

U.S. Attorney for the District of New Hampshire

was forced to resign on 10-Mar-17

 

48. David Rivera

U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee

was forced to resign on 10-Mar-17

 

49. Ronald Sharpe

U.S. Attorney for the District Court of the Virgin Islands

was forced to resign on 10-Mar-17

 

50. Ed Tarver

U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia

was forced to resign on 10-Mar-17

 

51. Kevin Techau

U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Iowa

was forced to resign on 10-Mar-17

 

52. Chris Thyer

U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas

was forced to resign on 10-Mar-17

 

53. John W. Vaudreuil

U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin

was forced to resign on 10-Mar-17

 

54. Danny C. Williams Sr.

U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma

was forced to resign on 10-Mar-17

 

55. Preet Bharara

US Attorney, Southern District of New York

was fired on 11-Mar-17

 

56. Boris Alexandrovich Epshteyn

Assistant Communications Director for Surrogate Operations

resigned on 25-Mar-17

 

57. Katie Walsh

Deputy White House Chief of Staff

was fired on 30-Mar-17

 

58. K. T. McFarland

Deputy National Security Advisor

was fired on 09-Apr-17

 

59. Vivek Murthy

Surgeon General

resigned on 22-Apr-17

 

60. Ronald Vitiello

Chief of the United States Border Patrol(acting)

resigned on 25-Apr-17

 

61. Angella Reid

White House Chief Usher

was fired on 05-May-17

 

62. James B. Comey

FBI Director

was fired on 09-May-17

 

63. Stephen Vaughn

Trade Representative(acting)

resigned on 15-May-17

 

64. Mike Dubke

Director of Communications

resigned on 18-May-17

 

65. Thomas Alfred Shannon, Jr.

Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs

resigned on 13-Jun-17

 

66. Tera Dahl

Deputy Chief of Staff, National Security Council

resigned on 06-Jul-17

 

67. Walter Michael Shaub, Jr.

Director of Office of Government Ethics

resigned on 06-Jul-17

 

68. Mark Corallo

Spokesman for Trump Legal Team

resigned on 20-Jul-17

 

69. Sean Spicer

White House Press Secretary

resigned on 21-Jul-17

 

70. Michael Short

Senior White House Assistant Press Secretary

resigned on 25-Jul-17

 

71. Derek Harvey

Middle-East Advisor

was fired on 27-Jul-17

 

72. Reinhold Richard Priebus

White House Chief of Staff

resigned on 27-Jul-17

 

73. Josh Pitcock

Chief of Staff to the Vice President

resigned on 28-Jul-17

 

74. George Gigicos

White House Director of Advance

resigned on 31-Jul-17

 

75. Anthony Scaramucci

Director of Communications

was fired on 31-Jul-17

 

76. Elizabeth Southerland

Director of Environmental Protection Agency

was fired on 31-Jul-17

 

77. Richard Staropoli

Chief Information Officer of Homeland Security

resigned on 01-Aug-17

 

78. Ezra Cohen-Watnick

Director for Intelligence Programs, NSC

was fired on 02-Aug-17

 

79. Rich Higgins

Director, National Security Council

resigned on 10-Aug-17

 

80. Chuck Close

Photographer and President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities member

resigned on 16-Aug-17

 

81. Jamie Dimon

JPMorgan Chase CEO and Strategic and Policy Forum member

resigned on 16-Aug-17

 

82. Kenneth Frazier

Merck CEO and Strategic and Policy Forum member

resigned on 16-Aug-17

 

83. Robert Allen Iger

Walt Disney Co. CEO and Strategic and Policy Forum member

resigned on 16-Aug-17

 

84. Brian William Krzanich

Intel CEO and Strategic and Policy Forum member

resigned on 16-Aug-17

 

85. Jhumpa Lahiri

Author and President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities member

resigned on 16-Aug-17

 

86. Thomas Mayne

Architect and President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities member

resigned on 16-Aug-17

 

87. Elon Musk

Tesla CEO and Strategic and Policy Forum member

resigned on 16-Aug-17

 

88. Kalpen Suresh Modi

Actor and President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities member

resigned on 16-Aug-17

 

89. Kevin Plank

UnderArmour CEO and Strategic and Policy Forum member

resigned on 16-Aug-17

 

90. Stephen Allen Schwarzman

Blackstone Group CEO and Strategic and Policy Forum member

resigned on 16-Aug-17

 

91. John Lloyd Mills Young

Actor and President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities member

resigned on 16-Aug-17

 

92. Carl Icahn

Special Advisor to the President

was fired on 17-Aug-17

 

93. Stephen K. Bannon

White House Advisor and Chief Strategist

resigned on 18-Aug-17

 

94. George Anthony Sifakis

Director of Office of Public Liaison

resigned on 18-Aug-17

 

95. Cristin Dorgelo

Office of Science and Technology Policy Chief of Staff

resigned on 21-Aug-17

 

96. Christy Goldfuss

White House Council on Environmental Quality Managing Director

resigned on 21-Aug-17

 

97. Dhanurjay Patil

White House Chief Data Scientist

resigned on 21-Aug-17

 

98. Amy Pope

Member, National Infrastructure Advisory Council (NIAC)

resigned on 21-Aug-17

 

99. Charles H. Ramsey

Member of the National Infrastructure Advisory Council (NIAC)

resigned on 21-Aug-17

 

100. Daniel Tangherlini

Member, National Infrastructure Advisory Council (NIAC)

resigned on 21-Aug-17

 

101. Daniel Utech

Member of the National Infrastructure Advisory Council (NIAC)

resigned on 21-Aug-17

 

102. Sebastian Gorka

Deputy Assistant to the President

was fired on 25-Aug-17

 

103. William Bradford

Director of the Department of Energy

resigned on 31-Aug-17

 

104. Keith Schiller

Director of Oval Office Operations

resigned on 05-Sep-17

 

105. Tom Price

Secretary of Health & Human Services

resigned on 29-Sep-17

 

106. Marc Lotter

Press Secretary to the Vice President

resigned on 01-Oct-17

 

107. Don J. Wright

Secretary of Health and Human Services (acting)

resigned on 10-Oct-17

 

108. Chris Christie

Chair of the Opioid and Drug Abuse Commission

resigned on 01-Nov-17

 

109. Sam Clovis

Nominated Under Secretary of Agriculture for Research Education, and Economics

withdrew name on 02-Nov-17

 

110. Jamie Johnson

Director, Department of Homeland Security

resigned on 16-Nov-17

 

111. Richard Cordray

Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

resigned on 24-Nov-17

 

112. Maliz Beams

Counselor in the Department of State

resigned on 28-Nov-17

 

113. Israel Hernandez

Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade (acting)

resigned on 01-Dec-17

 

114. Paul Winfree

Deputy Director of the Domestic Policy Council

resigned on 01-Dec-17

 

115. Kirstjen Nielsen

White House Principal Deputy Chief of Staff

resigned on 06-Dec-17

 

116. Gregory G. Katsas

White House Deputy Counsel

resigned on 08-Dec-17

 

117. Dina Powell

Deputy National Security Advisor

resigned on 08-Dec-17

 

118. Elizabeth Shackelford

Political Officer, Department of State

resigned on 09-Dec-17

 

119. Paul Winfree

Deputy Director of Domestic Policy Council

resigned on 15-Dec-17

 

120. Jeremy Katz

Deputy Director, National Economic Council

resigned on 22-Dec-17

 

121. Rick Dearborn

Deputy Chief of Staff

resigned on 01-Jan-18

 

122. Kris William Kobach

Vice Chair of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity

resigned on 03-Jan-18

 

123. John Feeley

Ambassador to Panama

resigned on 12-Jan-18

 

124. Carlton Milo Higbie IV

Chief of External Affairs at CNCS

resigned on 18-Jan-18

 

125. Omarosa Manigault Newman

Director of Communications for Office of Public Liaison

resigned on 20-Jan-18

 

126. Taylor Wyeneth

Deputy Chief of Staff, Office of Drug Control Policy

was fired on 24-Jan-18

 

127. Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald

Director of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

resigned on 31-Jan-18

 

128. Rob Porter

White House Staff Secretary

resigned on 07-Feb-18

 

129. Richard J. Baum

Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (acting)

resigned on 09-Feb-18

 

130. David Sorensen

White House Speechwriter

resigned on 09-Feb-18

 

131. George David Banks

Special Assistant to the President for International Energy and Environment Policy

resigned on 14-Feb-18

 

132. Reed Cordish

Assistant to the President

resigned on 16-Feb-18

 

133. Daniel Pollack

Political appointee who worked for Carl Higbie (q.v.)

was fired on 16-Feb-18

 

134. Rachel Brand

Associate Attorney General

resigned on 20-Feb-18

 

135. Christine Bauserman

Special Assist-cunt to Asst Secretary of the Interior for Lands and Minerals

resigned on 28-Feb-18

 

136. Hope Hicks

Director of Communications

resigned on 28-Feb-18

 

137. Charmaine Yoest

Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services for Public Affairs

resigned on 28-Feb-18

 

138. Chris Garcia

Director of the Minority Business Development Agency

resigned on 01-Mar-18

 

139. Gary Cohn

Director of National Economic Council

resigned on 06-Mar-18

 

140. John McEntee

Special Assistant and Personal Aide to the President

was fired on 12-Mar-18

 

141. Steve Goldstein

Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs

resigned on 13-Mar-18

 

142. Rex Tillerson

Secretary of State

was fired on 13-Mar-18

 

143. Andrew McCabe

FBI Deputy Director

was fired on 16-Mar-18

 

144. John Dowd

Lead Lawyer on Trump Defense Team

resigned on 22-Mar-18

 

145. H. R. McMaster

National Security Advisor

was fired on 22-Mar-18

 

146. Tom Buchanan

Lawyer at Winston & Strawn

turned down invitation to join the Boy Traitor's legal team on 27-Mar-18

 

147. Daniel Webb

Lawyer at Winston & Strawn

turned down invitation to join the Boy Traitor's legal team on 27-Mar-18

 

148. David Shulkin

Secretary of Veterans Affairs

was fired on 28-Mar-18

 

149. Robert Bennett

Lawyer at Hogan Lovells

turned down invitation to join the Boy Traitor's legal team on 30-Mar-18

 

150. Paul Clement

Lawyer at Kirkland & Ellis

turned down invitation to join the Boy Traitor's legal team on 30-Mar-18

 

151. Joe diGenova

Lawyer at diGenova & Toensing

changed his mind about joining the Trump team on 30-Mar-18

 

152. Mark Filip

Lawyer at Kirkland & Ellis

turned down invitation to join the Boy Traitor's legal team on 30-Mar-18

 

153. Emmet Flood

Lawyer at Williams & Connolly

turned down invitation to join the Boy Traitor's legal team on 30-Mar-18

 

154. Bob Giuffra

Lawyer at Sullivan and Cromwell

turned down invitation to join the Boy Traitor's legal team on 30-Mar-18

 

155. Theodore Bevry Olson

Lawyer at Gibson at Dunn & Crutcher

turned down invitation to join the Boy Traitor's legal team on 30-Mar-18

 

156. Brendan Sullivan

Lawyer at Williams & Connolly

turned down invitation to join the Boy Traitor's legal team on 30-Mar-18

 

157. Victoria Toensing

Lawyer at diGenova & Toensing

changed her mind about joining the Trump team on 30-Mar-18

 

158. Josh Raffel

Deputy Communications Director

resigned on 31-Mar-18

 

159. Michael Anton

National Security Council spokesperson

resigned on 08-Apr-18

 

160. Tom Bossert

Homeland Security Advisor

was fired on 10-Apr-18

 

161. Nadia Schadlow

Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategy

resigned on 10-Apr-18

 

162. Ronny Lynn Jackson

Physician to the President

withdrew his name from candidacy to head Dept. of Veterans Affairs on 26-Apr-18

 

163. Ty Cobb

Special Counsel to the President

resigned on 02-May-18

 

164. Ricky L. Waddell

Deputy National Security Advisor

resigned on 12-Apr-18

 

165. Kelly Sadler

Communications Aide to the President

resigned on 05-Jun-18

 

166. Joseph W. Hagin

Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations

resigned effective 31-Jul-18

 

 

Done