Scaramucci sacked, as John Kelly starts to reshape the White House

So farewell, the Mooch. One of the most bizarre figures to walk on to the stage of the Trump tragicomedy has just been shoved off – lasting just ten days. It’s the doing of John F Kelly, a former Marine Corps general who was sworn in as Trump’s Chief of Staff this morning. His first act upon returning to his office after the swearing-in ceremony was to fire Scaramucci.

Just a few days ago Anthony Scaramucci boasted said that he was going to be doing the firing. ‘What I’m going to do is, I will eliminate everyone in the comms team and we’ll start over,’ he told the New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza. Well, now he himself has been eliminated. Not before causing huge amounts of damage: Sean Spicer quit as Trump’s spokesman in protest at Scaramucci’s appointment and Reince Priebus, who had for months tried to stop Trump hiring Scaramucci (‘cock-blocking’ as the Mooch put it) before stepping down as Chief of Staff last week.