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Resignation announced Dec. 20, 2018

Jim Mattis

Secretary of Defense
Mr. Mattis resigned a day after Mr. Trump announced plans to withdraw troops from Syria. Read more »
Resignation announced Dec. 15, 2018

Ryan Zinke

Secretary of Interior
A key figure in the president’s sweeping plan to reshape the nation’s environmental framework, Mr. Zinke will leave his post at the end of the year. His departure comes amid numerous ethics investigations into his business dealings, travel and policy decisions. Read more »
Resignation announced Dec. 9, 2018

Nick Ayers

Chief of staff to vice president
Mr. Ayers declined President Trump's offer to be his new chief of staff and announced that he would leave the administration at the end of the year. Read more »
Resignation announced Dec. 8, 2018

John F. Kelly

White House chief of staff
President Trump announced that Mr. Kelly, who had been brought in last year to impose order on the West Wing, would step down by the end of the year. Read more »
Fired Nov. 7, 2018

Jeff Sessions

Attorney general
After months of verbal abuse by Mr. Trump, the president fired Mr. Sessions the day after midterm elections that handed control of the House to Democrats. Read more »
Resignation announced Oct. 9, 2018

Nikki Haley

U.N. Ambassador
The departure of Ms. Haley, who had been an early and frequent critic of Mr. Trump, will mean one less moderate Republican voice on the president’s foreign policy team. Read more »
Resignation announced Aug. 29, 2018

Donald F. McGahn II

White House counsel
Mr. McGahn's upcoming departure was announced by Mr. Trump on Twitter. Mr. McGahn is a key witness to whether the president tried to obstruct the investigation into Russian election interference. Read more »
Resignation announced July 5, 2018

Scott Pruitt

E.P.A. administrator
Mr. Pruitt had been hailed as a hero among conservatives for his zealous deregulation, but he could not overcome the stain of numerous ethics questions about his alleged spending abuses, first-class travel and cozy relationships with lobbyists. Read more »
Resignation announced June 19, 2018

Joseph W. Hagin

Deputy chief of staff
Mr. Hagin, who previously served for 14 years under Presidents Ronald Reagan, George Bush and George W. Bush, has more experience on the White House staff than nearly any other person in modern times. Read more »
Resignation announced April 12, 2018

Maj. Gen. Ricky Waddell

Deputy national security adviser
The White House said Mr. Waddell "will stay on board for the immediate future to help ensure a smooth and orderly transition."
Resignation announced April 11, 2018

Nadia Schadlow

Deputy national security adviser for strategy
Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster asked Ms. Schadlow to join his staff as a deputy assistant to the president for national security strategy in March. She took over for Dina H. Powell as deputy national security adviser for strategy in January.
Forced out April 10, 2018

Thomas P. Bossert

Homeland security adviser
Mr. Bossert's resignation coincided with the arrival of John R. Bolton as the president’s national security adviser, and was an unmistakable sign that Mr. Bolton is intent on naming his own people. Read more »
Forced out April 8, 2018

Michael Anton

National Security Council spokesman
The White House announced Mr. Anton's plans to leave the administration the day before Mr. Trump's third national security adviser, John R. Bolton, formally took his post.
Firing announced March 13, 2018

Rex W. Tillerson

Secretary of State
Mr. Tillerson learned he had been fired when a top aide showed him a tweet from Mr. Trump announcing that he would be replaced by Mike Pompeo, the C.I.A. director. Read more »
Resigned March 29, 2018

Hope Hicks

White House communications director
Ms. Hicks, one of Mr. Trump‘s most trusted advisers, announced in early March that she would resign in the coming weeks. Read more »
Fired March 28, 2018

David J. Shulkin

Secretary of Veterans Affairs
After weeks of uncertainty, Mr. Trump said he planned to replace Mr. Shulkin with his White House physician, Dr. Ronny L. Jackson, a rear admiral in the Navy. Read more »
Resignation announced March 22, 2018

Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster

National security adviser
General McMaster resigned under pressure after it became clear that Mr. Trump wanted him out. He was replaced by John R. Bolton, a hard-line former United States ambassador to the United Nations. Read more »
Fired March 16, 2018

Andrew McCabe

F.B.I. deputy director
Mr. McCabe was fired after the Justice Department rejected an appeal that would have let him retire. He is accused in a yet-to-be-released internal report of failing to be forthcoming about a conversation he authorized between F.B.I. officials and a journalist. Read more »
Resigned March 16, 2018

Rick Dearborn

White House deputy chief of staff
Mr. Dearborn had been overseeing a broad cross section of departments, including the political department. Read more »
Forced out March 12, 2018

John McEntee

President Trump’s personal aide
Mr. McEntee, who served as President Trump’s personal assistant since Mr. Trump won the presidency, was forced out of his position and escorted from the White House after an investigation into his finances caused his security clearance to be revoked. Read more »
Resignation announced March 6, 2018

Gary D. Cohn

Director of White House National Economic Council
The announcement of the resignation of Mr. Cohn, Mr. Trump's top economic adviser, came as Mr. Cohn seemed poised to lose an internal struggle over the president's plan to impose large tariffs on steel and aluminum imports. Read more »
Resigned Feb. 9, 2018

Rachel L. Brand

Associate attorney general
The No. 3 official at the Justice Department stepped down after nine months to take a job as the global governance director at Walmart. Read more »
Forced out Feb. 9, 2018

David Sorensen

White House speechwriter
Mr. Sorensen resigned after a news report detailed accusations from a former wife who said he had abused her during their marriage. Read more »
Forced out Feb. 7, 2018

Rob Porter

White House staff secretary
Mr. Porter resigned one day after his two former wives accused him in interviews of physical abuse during their marriages. Read more »
Forced out Jan. 31, 2018

Brenda Fitzgerald

Director of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Ms. Fitzgerald resigned over troubling financial investments in tobacco and health care companies that posed potential conflicts of interest. Read more »
Forced out Jan. 18, 2018

Carl Higbie

Chief of external affairs for Corporation for National and Community Service
Resigned under pressure after CNN surfaced disparaging remarks he had made in the past about black people, Muslims, gays and veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder. Read more »
Fired Dec. 13, 2017

Omarosa Manigault Newman

Director of communications for the White House Office of Public Liaison
A former contestant on Mr. Trump’s reality TV show “The Apprentice,” Ms. Newman was fired by Mr. Trump's chief of staff, John F. Kelly. Read more »
Resignation announced Dec. 8, 2017

Dina H. Powell

Deputy national security adviser for strategy
One of the most influential women in the Trump administration, Ms. Powell is returning to Goldman Sachs. Read more »
Forced out Sept. 29, 2017

Tom Price

Secretary of Health and Human Services
Mr. Price resigned under pressure after racking up hundreds of thousands of dollars in travel bills for chartered flights. Read more »
Resigned Sept. 20, 2017

Keith Schiller

Director of Oval Office operations
Mr. Trump's longtime aide and former bodyguard decided to leave the White House soon after Mr. Kelly arrived. Read more »
Forced out Aug. 25, 2017

Sebastian Gorka

Adviser
Mr. Gorka was forced out shortly after Mr. Bannon left the White House. Read more »
Forced out Aug. 18, 2017

Stephen K. Bannon

Chief strategist
Mr. Trump's populist chief strategist was pushed out shortly after Mr. Kelly took over as chief of staff. Read more »
Resignation announced Aug. 18, 2017

George Sifakis

Director of White House Office of Public Liaison
Mr. Sifakis stepped down soon after Reince Priebus, Mr. Trump’s first chief of staff, was forced out.
Fired July 31, 2017

Anthony Scaramucci

White House communications director
Mr. Scaramucci was fired on Mr. Kelly's first day in the White House. His dismissal came days after he unloaded a crude verbal tirade against other members of the president’s staff in a conversation with a reporter for The New Yorker. Read more »
Forced out July 28, 2017

Reince Priebus

White House chief of staff
Mr. Priebus was forced out after a stormy six-month tenure. Read more »
Resigned July 21, 2017

Sean Spicer

White House press secretary
Mr. Spicer resigned after telling Mr. Trump he vehemently disagreed with his appointment of Mr. Scaramucci as his new communications director. Read more »
Resigned June 2, 2017

Mike Dubke

White House communications director
Mr. Dubke told colleagues he was resigning for reasons that were “personal.” Read more »
Forced out May 19, 2017

K. T. McFarland

Deputy national security adviser
Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster pushed Ms. McFarland out after he took over for Michael T. Flynn, Mr. Trump's first national security adviser. She was nominated as ambassador to Singapore but withdrew her nomination after it stalled in the Senate. Read more »
Fired May 9, 2017

James B. Comey

F.B.I. director
Mr. Trump said on national television that he fired Mr. Comey because he was frustrated over the F.B.I.’s investigation into Russia’s meddling in the 2016 campaign and its possible contacts with Mr. Trump’s advisers. Read more »
Forced out March 30, 2017

Katie Walsh

White House deputy chief of staff
Ms. Walsh was forced out by Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and a top White House adviser, and other West Wing officials.
Forced out Feb. 13, 2017

Michael T. Flynn

National security adviser
Mr. Flynn was forced to resign amid questions about whether he lied to administration officials about the nature of his conversations with the Russian ambassador to the United States. Read more »

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