ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI/JOHN KELLY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “John F. Kelly, President Trump’s new chief of staff, firmly asserted his authority on his first day in the White House on Monday [7-31-17], telling aides he will impose military discipline on a free-for-all West Wing, and he underscored his intent by firing Anthony Scaramucci, the bombastic communications director, 10 days after he was hired.
Mr. Scaramucci was forced out of his post, with the blessing of the president and his family, just days after unloading a crude verbal tirade against other members of the president’s staff, including Reince Priebus, Mr. Kelly’s beleaguered predecessor, and Stephen K. Bannon, the chief White House strategist, in a conversation with a reporter for The New Yorker.
Mr. Trump recruited Mr. Scaramucci as a tough-talking alter ego who would ferociously fight for him the way others had not. But ‘the Mooch,’ as he likes to be known, quickly went too far, even in the eyes of a president who delights in pushing the boundaries of political and social decorum. As Mr. Kelly, a former four-star Marine general, began his first day on the job, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, announced that Mr. Scaramucci was out.”
-Michael D. Shear, Glenn Thrush, and Maggie Haberman, “John Kelly, Asserting Authority, Fires Anthony Scaramucci,” The New York Times online, July 31, 2017