Donald Trump's White House turnover has been the highest in decades, a top historian has said, days after the US President announced that his Chief of Staff John Kelly would be leaving the administration soon.
Trump's White House had the "highest 73 per cent turnover" of top-ranked staff experienced by any recent president, Martha Joynt Kumar, who is director of the White House Transition Project, told PTI.
"Among the Assistants to the President group, President Trump's White House had the highest turnover of top-ranked staff experienced by any recent president," she said.
An emeritus professor of political science at Towson University, Kumar said the group of approximately two dozen White House staff titled assistant to the president form a president's core leadership team.
The turnover at this level is particularly important for the stability and direction of the presidential decision-making process.
President Trump is now in the process of appointing his third Chief of Staff after he announced last week that Kelly will be leaving the White House by the year end.
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"I am in the process of interviewing some really great people for the position of White House Chief of Staff," Trump wrote on Twitter on Sunday.
"Fake News has been saying with certainty it was Nick Ayers, a spectacular person who will always be with our #MAGA agenda. I will be making a decision soon!" he said.
There were changes in the Chief's office beyond moving from Reince Priebus to Kelly as Chief of Staff, Kumar said.
Sharing the details of her research of "assistant the President Staff Turnover at the 23-Month Mark" which makes a comparative study of all US presidents since Ronald Regan (1981-89), Kumar said a whopping 70 per cent or 30 of the 41 assistants to the president appointed in the first year of Trump's presidency left their original position by approximately 23-month mark.
The White House turnover of former president George H W Bush was the lowest with just 18 per cent (only three of the 17 assistants appointed in the first year left their original position.)
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