Day 343: Trump’s White House Easily Set Record For Staff Turnover

A third of senior aides did not make it to 2018.

A whopping 34 percent of Donald Trump’s White House senior staff didn’t even make it to the 12-month mark, a dubious record for a president’s first year.

The high level of staff turnover, detailed in a Wall Street Journal report Thursday, is unprecedented in the last 40 years, and is especially unusual given the seniority of the staffers who have left the White House.

The runner-up to Trump’s shockingly high figure is Ronald Reagan, who saw a departure rate half of Trump’s.

The next-highest administration turnover rate was when Ronald Reagan was in the White House. In 1981, 17 percent of senior aides left Reagan’s administration.

“Not only is the percentage double, the seniority of people leaving is extraordinarily high,” said [senior fellow at the Brookings Institute, Kathryn Dunn] Tenpas of the Trump administration compared to Reagan’s.

Barack Obama saw a first-year turnover rate of just 9 percent. George W. Bush lost a mere 6 percent. Bill Clinton’s saw 11 percent depart.

The names have piled up like a massive car crash: Flynn, Priebus, Spicer, Bannon, Scaramucci. As the calendar turns over, expect more cars to steamroll towards the pile up.

343 days in, 1119 to go

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