{"id":1003107,"date":"2018-12-10T10:46:17","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T14:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1003107"},"modified":"2024-05-23T20:12:18","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T20:12:18","slug":"white-house-chaos-nobody-wants-to-be-chief-of-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/white-house-chaos-nobody-wants-to-be-chief-of-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Chaos: Nobody Wants To Be Chief Of Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nobody wants to be Trump\u2019s chief of staff. And why would they? Trump has turned the White House\u2019s top job into \u201ca laughing stock,\u201d and his entire presidency has been defined by chaos.<\/p>\n

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Politico<\/a>: \u201cA job that was once a ticket to Washington royalty has recently become a laughing stock.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Vice News<\/a>: \u201cNobody Wants To Manage Trump\u2019s White House\u201d<\/p>\n

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Politico Playbook<\/a>: \u201cWe made a round of calls last night about the chief of staff job and heard the same thing over and over again: No one wants it this time, and it\u2019s an exceedingly bad phase of the administration to take the helm.<\/p>\n

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New York Times<\/a>: \u201cNick Ayers, Aide to Pence, Declines Offer to Be Trump\u2019s Chief of Staff.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Politico\u2019s Nancy Cook<\/a>: \u201cA source close to Mulvaney tells me he is no longer interested in COS job, Mnuchin and Lighthizer sending out same signals…. list of potential replacements for Kelly shrinking by the hour.\u201d<\/p>\n

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New York Times<\/a>: \u201cAs President Trump heads into the fight of his political life, the man he had hoped would help guide him through it has now turned him down, and he finds himself in the unaccustomed position of having no obvious second option.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Washington Post\u2019s Michael Shear<\/a>: \u201cWhat is remarkable \u2014 and consistent with the chaotic pattern of this administration \u2014 is the failure to have lined up an immediate replacement.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Washington Post<\/a>: \u201cThat announcement closed out Kelly\u2019s rocky tenure and ushered in a second straight messy chief-of-staff handover for the president, for whom the next pick will be the third to take on the daunting job in less than three years.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Bloomberg<\/a>: \u201cThe White House now faces a potentially chaotic transition in a vital leadership role with Ayers out of the running, despite months of advance conversations with the president.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Associated Press<\/a>: \u201cTrump’s administration has set records for staff turnover, and he has often struggled to attract experienced political professionals.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nobody wants to be Trump\u2019s chief of staff. And why would they? Trump has turned the White House\u2019s top job into \u201ca laughing stock,\u201d and his entire presidency has been defined by chaos.   Politico: \u201cA job that was once a ticket to Washington royalty has recently become a laughing stock.\u201d   Vice News: \u201cNobody […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nWhite House Chaos: Nobody Wants To Be Chief Of Staff - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/white-house-chaos-nobody-wants-to-be-chief-of-staff\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-12-10T14:46:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-05-23T20:12:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/white-house-chaos-nobody-wants-to-be-chief-of-staff\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/white-house-chaos-nobody-wants-to-be-chief-of-staff\/\",\"name\":\"White House Chaos: Nobody Wants To Be Chief Of Staff - 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