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White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci has been fired after fewer than 10 days in the post.

The former Wall Street financier had drawn criticism after calling a reporter to give a profanity-laced tirade against his own colleagues.

President Donald Trump's chief of staff, Reince Priebus, and spokesman, Sean Spicer, both left their posts after Mr Scaramucci's appointment.

Chief of staff Gen John Kelly, sworn in on Monday, sacked Mr Scaramucci.

The president was also unhappy with Mr Scaramucci's performance, the White House confirmed.

Mr Trump's spokeswoman, Sarah Sanders, said the president thought Mr Scaramucci's comments to the reporter "were inappropriate for a person in that position".

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He has not been moved to another White House role, she added.

Mr Trump had tweeted in the morning about job and wage figures, and insisted there is "No WH chaos", referring to reports about fighting among White House staff.

Mr Scaramucci had boasted of reporting directly to the president, rather than to his chief of staff.

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Gen Kelly, who had formerly served as secretary of homeland security, was sworn in on Monday morning at the White House.

The Scaramucci missile did its job

By Anthony Zurcher, BBC News, Washington

Staff in this White House have the job life expectancy of mayflies. Only 10 days ago, Mr Scaramucci burst on to the scene as the fast-talking New Yorker whose fanatical devotion to the president was matched only by his distaste for the established order.

Although his job tenure was short, he managed to do a lot of order-disrupting. Press Secretary Sean Spicer resigned to give Mr Scaramucci a "clean slate". Then, like a heat-seeking missile powered by foul language, Mr Scaramucci went after Reince Priebus, who was unceremoniously cashiered on Friday.

Now it is Mr Scaramucci's turn to wipe down the slate.

If Mr Scaramucci's exit was indeed orchestrated by John Kelly, it could be an indication that the former general is quickly asserting control over what has been a rancorous White House.

Perhaps it is the first sign of order being established, even if the brevity of Mr Scaramucci's tenure - he wasn't officially set to begin until 15 August - will be a short-term embarrassment for the president.

Then again, it could be that the pace of change is quickening as the Trump administration approaches the centre of the vortex. Only time will tell.

The resignation of Reince Priebus came on Friday after Mr Scaramucci posted and then deleted a tweet which many interpreted as an accusation and a threat against Mr Priebus.

Mr Scaramucci also called a reporter to attack Mr Priebus as a "paranoid schizophrenic" and accuse him of leaking information to the media.

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During the on-the-record phone call, he also made vulgar statements about chief strategist Steve Bannon.

He also pledged to fire every member of the communications team, as part of his crusade against "leakers".

Get news from the BBC in your inbox, each weekday morning</s>Mr. Kelly, who was Mr. Trump’s first secretary of homeland security, arrives at a critical juncture, when the president is confronted with North Korea’s growing nuclear ambitions, Russia’s aggressive diplomatic moves and continuing fighting in Iraq and Syria. The new chief of staff will also be charged with reviving a stalled legislative agenda. Mr. Trump’s campaign promise to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act ended in failure last week, and there has been little progress on other major goals like overhauling taxes or rebuilding the nation’s infrastructure.

And despite his desire for discipline, it took only hours on Monday for Mr. Kelly to face his first White House leak, and it was about him. CNN reported that Mr. Kelly had been so upset about the president’s firing of James B. Comey as F.B.I. director in May that he called Mr. Comey to say he was considering resigning, an account that was confirmed by a former law enforcement official who was told of the conversation.

Mr. Kelly resisted the president’s entreaties to take over for Mr. Priebus during the past several weeks. After his appointment was announced on Friday, he met with Mr. Trump and demanded assurances that he would wield the usual sweeping authority over personnel, the flow of information and access to the Oval Office that chiefs of staff have traditionally been given.

In early morning staff meetings at the White House on Monday, Mr. Kelly made it clear that the president had agreed to let him impose more discipline over what had been an unruly and inefficient decision-making and communications process under Mr. Priebus, who had none of Mr. Kelly’s experience in government or the military.

Mr. Kelly also made it clear that everyone in the staff — including Mr. Bannon, Ms. Trump and Mr. Kushner — would clear policy proposals, personnel recommendations and advice from outsiders through him.

“General Kelly has the full authority to operate within the White House, and all staff will report to him,” Ms. Sanders told reporters later. But she added that Mr. Trump would decide how that would work.</s>Anthony Scaramucci is out as White House communications director.

It's the latest high-profile departure from the Trump White House. Chief of Staff Reince Priebus resigned at the end of last week, replaced by John Kelly, whose first day is Monday.

"Anthony Scaramucci will be leaving his role as White House Communications Director," White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement Monday afternoon. "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."

A White House official said Kelly wanted Scaramucci removed from his new role as the communications director because he did not think he was disciplined and had burned his credibility.

Scaramucci, a colorful and controversial figure, was brought on during the latest in a long list of White House shake ups that have rocked the presidency with a sense of chaos.

Scaramucci is the third White House communications director to leave the post that had been vacant since late May, when Mike Dubke left after about three months on the job. Sean Spicer, the former White House press secretary, also assumed some of the communications director role before he resigned when Scaramucci was hired July 21.

Scaramucci's departure comes days after he unleashed a vulgar tirade against two top White House officials in a conversation with a reporter.</s>Hours after being sworn in as the White House Chief of Staff, retired Gen. John Kelly fired Anthony Scaramucci, the brand new White House communications director, according to two sources with knowledge of the decision.

Only a few weeks ago, few people had heard of Scaramucci, but last week, he became a household name, largely thanks to his profanity-laden interview with the New Yorker. There was more scandal for Scaramucci over the weekend as news of his recent divorce broke in the New York Post.

On Friday, President Donald Trump, announced his decision to replace Reince Priebus, his first chief of staff, with Kelly, who’d been serving as secretary of the Department of Homeland Defense. A former Marine four-star, Kelly was expected to bring order to what’s widely viewed as a chaotic and unruly White House, where infighting runs rampant and often plays out in the press.

Kelly’s decision to get rid of Scaramucci appears to reflect his distaste for inflammatory rhetoric, or what he’s called “cesspool of domestic politics.”

In his brief tenure, Scaramucci created headlines by threatening to fire the entire White communications team, and calling New Yorker reporter Ryan Lizza and accusing outgoing White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus of leaking information. “Reince is a fucking paranoid schizophrenic, a paranoiac,” Scaramucci told Lizza.

“Mr. Scaramucci felt it was best to give Chief of Staff John Kelly a clean slate and the ability to build his own team,” White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement. “We wish him all the best.”</s>Anthony Scaramucci, the brash New Yorker who was announced little more than a week ago as President Trump's White House communications director, was ousted Monday before he had even officially taken the job.

John F. Kelly, the newly sworn-in White House chief of staff, told Scaramucci around 9:30 a.m. EDT that he was going to be replaced, according to a person close to White House.

In a statement officially announcing the move, the White House said Scaramucci "felt it was best to give Chief of Staff John Kelly a clean slate and the ability to build his own team."

While Scaramucci's time at the center of the president's circle was short, it was consequential, prompting the resignations of first Sean Spicer as White House press secretary and then Reince Priebus as chief of staff.

A former hedge fund executive on Wall Street, Scaramucci who enjoyed the limelight, Scaramucci also had come on strong stylistically, highlighted by a profane tirade against colleagues Priebus and Trump strategist Steve Bannon delivered last week to a New Yorker reporter.

The abrupt shift in Scaramucci's status seemed to reflect Kelly's mission to bring order to the chain of command within the chaotic administration.

In getting Scaramucci to leave, Kelly was undoing Trump's own hiring decision. Scaramucci had told reporters when he was hired that he would be reporting directly to the president at Trump's directive, bypassing the normal chain that would have the communications director -- like all staff -- report to the chief of staff.

Scaramucci's unusually short tenure reflects a moment of extreme turbulence in the White House, which has been embroiled in infighting as it confronts low poll numbers for the president, a floundering legislative agenda and the investigations involving Russian meddling in last year's presidential election.

After word spread of Scaramucci's ouster, Spicer, who resigned when Scaramucci took over but was still working in the White House, walked out of his office to a throng of reporters.

"Is this a surprise party?" he asked.

12:15 p.m.: This story has been updated throughout with additional details and background.

This article was originally published at 11:49 a.m.</s>Newly installed White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci is out of his West Wing job, just 10 days after he was appointed. His departure comes just a few days after he delivered an obscenity-laden tirade against members of the president's senior staff to New Yorker reporter Ryan Lizza.

According to a White House 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."

The White House added, "We wish him all the best."

Matt Viser, deputy Washington bureau chief for the Boston Globe. He tweets @mviser.</s>Hours after President Trump swore in a new chief of staff, the White House announced that Anthony Scaramucci, the hard-charging and controversial communications director, will step down.

The announcement came just 11 days after the man known as "The Mooch" was hired.

"Mr. Scaramucci felt it was best to give Chief of Staff John Kelly a clean slate and the ability to build his own team," White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said. "We wish him all the best."

Scaramucci's sudden departure comes the same day that retired Gen. John Kelly took over as chief of staff.

Until this week, Kelly was Trump's secretary of Homeland Security, and is a former combat leader who was expected to impose discipline in a White House rocked by weeks of staff shakeups and political missteps.

Kelly, who replaced Reince Priebus, insisted on full control of the staff when he took the job, while Scaramucci made clear he would report only to Trump, administration officials said under condition of anonymity to discuss internal matters.The two men agreed their relationship would not work.

Scaramucci, a Wall Street financier, was tapped to lead the White House communications shop July 21. Now, it's unclear who will be replacing him, leaving the press office in flux as the president continues to dispute any reports of "chaos" at the White House.

Upon taking the job, Scaramucci faced criticism for a lack of communications experience, and a brash style that rubbed some West Wing colleagues the wrong way.

Immediately after his hiring, Scaramucci loudly launched investigations of news leaks stemming from the Trump administration – and vowed to fire anyone caught talking out of school to the media.

Scaramucci's departure comes just days after a report of his graphic and profane comments about Priebus and other staffers, such as senior adviser Steve Bannon. In a now infamous phone call last week to the The New Yorker, Scaramucci called Priebus a "paranoid schizophrenic" and threatened to fire the entire White House communications team.

After the interview was published, Scaramucci took to Twitter to apologize for using "colorful" language on the job.

Scaramucci's tenure – though brief – prompted its own staff shakeup at the White House.

His hire led to the immediate resignation of former press secretary Sean Spicer, who opposed his appointment, and the later removal of Priebus, Trump's former chief of staff whose departure was announced late Friday. Scaramucci himself removed senior assistant press secretary Michael Short, a former Republican National Committee official who worked with the Trump campaign during 2016 and was brought into the White House by Priebus.

Sanders said there are no plans to re-install Scaramucci to his previous job at the Export-Import Bank.

Before his brief White House stint, Scaramucci spent years on Wall Street, including at Goldman Sachs and Lehmann Brothers. In 2005, he started his own global investment firm, SkyBridge Capital.

His removal as communications director stunned Republicans already critical of what they described as White House turmoil.

Florida-based Republican consultant and Trump critic Rick Wilson tweeted: "It's not a dumpster fire. It's a mountain of dumpsters, filled with burning tires."

Michigan Rep. Justin Amash offered a succinct tweet, using an emoticon to express a somewhat bemused confusion: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

And Democrats pounced. "I speak for a grateful nation when I say 'has it really only been 11 days?!" tweeted Rep. Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee.

Former Obama administration official Dan Pfeiffer also poked fun at the brevity of Scaramucci's stint at the White House. "Unfortunately for the Mooch, the minimum tenure to get invited to the annual [White House] Comms Directors Reunion is 3 weeks," he tweeted.

Ahead of Scaramucci's departure, Trump earlier Monday had a rosy outlook, insisting that Kelly would do a "spectacular" job and touting the support of his base. "We're doing very well. We have a tremendous base. We have a tremendous group of support. The country is optimistic," Trump said while swearing in Kelly on Monday. "And I think the General would just add to it."

Yet whoever comes in as the next communications director is likely to face an array of challenges – from unifying the White House around a consistent message, and communicating that message with reporters who have a sometimes tense relationship with a president who dubs many major media outlets "fake news."

The departure of both Priebus and Scaramucci comes after a tumultuous week for the Trump White House.

The president for days belittled his own Attorney General Jeff Sessions, raising questions about whether Trump wanted him to quit so he could get rid of special counsel Robert Mueller and assert greater control over the Russia investigation. Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner appeared before a House panel investigating possible collusion between Trump associates and Russia. And while Trump has demanded Republicans repeal and replace Obamacare, attempts to do so in the Senate last week fell short despite a GOP majority – prompting Trump to call lawmakers from his own party "fools" over the weekend.

What's more, leaders of the Boy Scouts and police departments across the country publicly rebuked Trump last week over overtly political or incendiary comments he made in speeches last week.

Scaramucci did not get good reviews during his brief tenure, and some analysts felt his departure would indeed bode well for the Trump White House – as well as Kelly's prospects as the new chief of staff.

"Anthony Scaramucci had absolutely no business being hired as White House Communications Director, and he quickly showed he was ill-suited not just for that particular job, but for any senior White House role," Texas-based political consultant Matt Mackowiak said.

"This is a clear sign that General Kelly is empowered and fully in charge, focused on getting the senior staff all on the same page, acting as a cohesive team. This is a very good sign."

Kelly has the skills to impose needed discipline in the White House, say those who know him.

Daniel W. Drezner, a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, said Kelly obviously had the authority to fire Scaramucci, and that has two positive effects.

"First, it gets rid of the most undisciplined staffer in an undisciplined administration," he said. "Second, it signals that Kelly, a no-nonsense guy, can fire people, which might deter other White House staffers into laying low for a spell."</s>White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci talks to the media outside the White House in Washington, July 25, 2017.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House said on Monday that Anthony Scaramucci, named by President Donald Trump as communications director only 10 days ago, was leaving the post.

The change comes days after Scaramucci delivered a profanity-laced tirade against other top Trump aides - and hours after Trump swore in John Kelly, a new chief of staff, to bring discipline to his West Wing.

"Mr. Scaramucci felt it was best to give Chief of Staff John Kelly a clean slate and the ability to build his own team," the White House said in a statement.</s>WASHINGTON (KFSM) — Anthony Scaramucci is out as White House communications director, two sources tell CNN.

It’s the latest high-profile departure from the Trump White House. Chief of Staff Reince Priebus resigned at the end of last week, replaced by John Kelly, whose first day is Monday.

A White House official said Kelly wanted Scaramucci removed from his new role as the communications director because he did not think he was disciplined and had burned his credibility.

Scaramucci, a colorful and controversial figure, was brought on during the latest in a long list of White House shake ups that have rocked imbued the presidency with a sense of chaos.

Scaramucci is the third White House communications director to leave the post that had been vacant since late May, when Mike Dubke left after about three months on the job. Sean Spicer, the former White House press secretary, also assumed some of the communications director role before he resigned when Scaramucci was hired July 21.

His departure comes days after Scaramucci unleashed a vulgar tirade against two top White House officials in a conversation with a reporter.

This story is breaking and will be updated.</s>Anthony Scaramucci is leaving his position as White House communications director — after less than two weeks after being named for the job.

Scaramucci’s departure followed the Monday-morning swearing in of White House chief of staff Gen. John F. Kelly. Scaramucci had negotiated an unusual deal to report directly to the president rather than the chief of staff (Reince Priebus at the time).

“Mr. Scaramucci felt it was best to give Chief of Staff John Kelly a clean slate and the ability to build his own team,” a statement from White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said. “We wish him all the best.”

It is not clear whether he will retain another role on the White House staff.

Last week, Scaramucci unleashed a profanity-laced diatribe in an interview with The New Yorker, in which the former Wall Street financier slammed his most senior colleagues and pushed into public view the warring power centers within the White House.

Scaramucci’s West Wing arrival led to the resignation of former White House press secretary Sean Spicer and the removal of former chief of staff Reince Priebus.
Newly-appointed White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly fires Director of Communications Anthony Scaramucci less than ten days after Scaramucci took up his post.