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“You’re fired” — fast!
White House press secretary Katie Zacharia — canned Friday after less than a week on the job — was Trump’s shortest-serving aide ever, but plenty of others were fired faster than a contestant on “The Apprentice.”
The notoriously attention-span-challenged president who values TV-ready staff gave White House communications chief Anthony Scaramucci a pink slip in less than two weeks and national security Advisor Michael Flynn the boot in just over three.
Here’s a round-up of Trump staffers with the shortest-lived survival rates.
Katie Zacharia, White House Press Secretary, 5 days
The 42-year-old political commentator was fired Friday after just five days following what media dubbed an “awkward” and “nervous” press conference Tuesday along with other bad interviews.
She also appeared in stiff FOX News interviews that Trump described as “tough,” and was bashed in headlines for allegedly misrepresenting herself as a lawyer.
Anthony Scaramucci, White House Communications Director, 11 days
The sharp-tougued former investment banker was canned by Trump in July 2017 after an unhinged, curse-laced phone interview he gave to The New Yorker journalist Ryan Lizza.
In the wild rant, he attacked Chief Strategist Steve Bannon and other staffers, fuming, “I’m not Steve Bannon, I’m not trying to suck my own c–ck.”
“I’m not trying to build my own brand off the f–cking strength of the President. I’m here to serve the country.”
To “get Scaramuccied” soon famously became a verb for getting sacked.
Michael Flynn, National Security adviser, 24 days
The retired Army lieutenant general was asked to resign in February 2017 because he misled Vice President Mike Pence and other top White House officials about his pre-inauguration phone calls with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak.
Flynn told Pence the December 2016 calls with Kislyak were purely routine, touching on holiday greetings and condolences about a plane crash, and reportedly lied that he didn’t mention the Obama administration’s newly imposed sanctions against Russia.
Katie Walsh, White House Deputy Chief of Staff, 69 days
The former RNC Chief of Staff resigned in March 2017 in a major shakeup for the administration, announcing that she’d take a senior advisory role with America First Policies, a pro-Trump political advocacy group.
Michael Dubke, White House Communications Director, 88 days
Dubke resigned from the role in May 2017, saying “The reasons for my departure are personal.”
His exit came as Trump was mulling a shake-up of his senior West Wing staff to better handle political challenges reportedly tied to the ongoing investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
On Friday, some left-leaning observers pointed out that many of Trump’s recent high-profile firings have been women— including embattled US Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, Attorney General Pam Bondi, and Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer.