Trump’s communications director FIRED
President Donald Trump is removing Anthony Scaramucci as White House communications director
- Scaramucci unleashed a profanity-laced tirade against resigned chief of staff Reince Priebus and Steve Bannon last week
- ‘The Mooch’ said he reported directly to President Trump
- Priebus resigned Friday
- Scaramucci started his new job just last week
- He called Priebus a ‘f****** paranoid schizophrenic’ and accused Steve Bannon of ‘sucking his own c***’ in comments that appeared in the New Yorker
- Monday was the first day for new chief of staff Gen. John Kelly, who was behind the purge
- Scaramucci was seen in an animated conversation with counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway early Monday afternoon
- Trump claimed there was ‘No WH chaos’ in a tweet Monday morning
President Donald Trump has decided to sack Anthony Scaramucci as his communications director, in the latest dramatic staff shake-up to rock the White House.
‘Anthony Scaramucci will be leaving his role as White House Communications Director,’ the White House said in a brief statement. ‘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.’ 
The statement came just minutes after the New York Times first reported the news on Monday, and came hours after the president tweeted there was ‘No WH chaos.’
Scaramucci started the job just a week ago, and immediately shook the White House with controversial statements, including vulgar attacks on senior White House staffers, along with a vow to hunt down leakers.
White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci walks into the White House in Washington, DC after giving a television interview, July 26, 2017
Scaramucci unleashed a profanity-laced tirade against resigned chief of staff Reince Priebus and Steve Bannon last week.
Priebus resigned Friday. Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer, a Priebus ally, quit the day Scaramucci’s appointment was announced. A White House official predicted to DailyMail.co last week that Scaramucci wouldn’t last long.
Neither Priebus nor Bannon publicly pushed back at Scaramucci for the comments. Trump reportedly thought less of Priebus for failing to defend himself. In a CNN interview after his departure, Priebus declined to after Scaramucci and continued to laud Trump’s accomplishments.
A White House official said Monday that no one on Trump’s senior staff, including Bannon, Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump, Spicer, and press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, objected to Scaramucci’s firing.
‘General Kelly’s arrival turned out to be a neat solution to a real problem of Anthony’s own making,’ the official said, requesting anonymity to speak freely.
The White House statement on Scaramucci’s sudden exit echoed the same language Priebus used to announce his departure – deploying the same phrase, ‘clean slate.’
Scaramucci was seen in an animated conversation with counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway early Monday afternoon.
He was escorted off White House grounds, a source familiar with the scene told CBS News. He is the second White House communications director, following Mike Dubke’s resignation. Spicer also filled in doing the position.
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