Day One - Friday, 21 July
Anthony Scaramucci is introduced as the White House Communications Director.
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer promptly resigns.
Scaramucci, who isn't officially scheduled to start working until August, addresses the White House Press Corps for nearly an hour.
Day Six - Wednesday, 26 July
Scaramucci calls New Yorker reporter Ryan Lizza and unloads a dump truck full of profanity without specifying that their conversation should be off the record (a shocking mistake for a "communications director").
Day Seven - Thursday, 27 July
The New Yorker publishes Lizza's account of his conversation with Scaramucci.
In the article, the newly appointed White House Communications Director calls Chief of Staff Reince Priebus "a paranoid schizophrenic" and suggests, in the crudest possible language, that Steve Bannon took his current position in the administration for self gratification.
Long-standing tensions between Scaramucci and Priebus were also revealed.
Day Eight - Friday, 28 July
Trump announces on Twitter that Gen. John F. Kelly is taking over as the new White House Chief of Staff, effectively firing Priebus by tweet.
Day Eleven - Monday, 31 July
Scaramucci, whose arrival appears to have triggered the dismissal of both Spicer and Priebus, is himself fired at the request of General Kelly.
Let's hope that the firing of Scaramucci signals a much needed step toward establishing stability in a grievously dysfunctional White House.
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