So many people have been leaving the White House, said Donald Trump this month. “It’s actually been really exciting and invigorating. I like chaos. It really is good.”
It is not clear whether he was joking — the remark was made during a light-hearted dinner speech — but, for Mr Trump’s sake, one hopes he meant it.
The past month has seen the resignation of his communications director Hope Hicks, the downgrading of Jared Kushner’s security clearance, the resignation of his senior economic adviser Gary Cohn, the sacking-by-tweet of the secretary of state Rex Tillerson, the escorting-out-of-the-building of his aide John McEntee, the firing of Andrew McCabe, deputy director of the FBI – and now HR McMaster has gone too.