A Definitive, Ongoing List of All the People the Trump Administration Has Parted Ways With So Far

After being ousted for using more than $1 million in government funds to pay for his private travel, HHS secretary Tom Price decided to beat Trump to the punch and resign before the president could sever ties in a less pleasant way. Lest we forget, Donald Trump threatened Price this summer, saying in front of an audience of Boy Scouts that if Price were to fail to get an Obamacare repeal through the Senate, the secretary would be told, "Tom, you're fired." Well, the second Obamacare repeal failed, and the bad news headlines were showing no signs of stopping. So, it would seem Price probably made the right move.

Sebastian Gorka was one of the few individuals in Trump's White House who did in fact have a history of working in government — but the majority of it wasn't in the US government, and the role he held before joining Team Trump happened to be as national security editor for Breitbart. He was also one of the first of the Trump White House to cause a massive scandal, when back in February he harassed a critic, and the tape of that conversation was subsequently released. In addition, Gorka's questionable links to far-right groups and his often stunningly nationalistic views were the subject of much alarm across the country, so once his strong ally and friend Steve Bannon made his exit on Aug. 18, it was no surprise that Gorka was told to pack his bags as well.

Steve Bannon was arguably the most powerful force working behind the scenes at the Trump White House, and his departure from the Hill comes as a relief to many across the country. Bannon's white nationalist views were the source of widespread, long-running concern that he was dictating a personal agenda over the course of his tenure, and in the wake of Trump's problematic comments on Charlottesville, calls for his removal had increased both in number and in volume. A founding member of the ultraconservative Breitbart, Bannon is rumored to be returning to the publication after he leaves Washington.

Anthony "The Mooch" Scaramucci lasted a little less than two weeks in office, and the history books will likely show that his short tenure was deeply, deeply marred by an off-the-wall, on-the-record interview in which he railed about everyone under the sun and did so with some wildly NSFW language while he was at it. The key takeaway here? The Mooch was great for website traffic, but terrible for the White House. And even Trump had to have seen that after the week he had last week.

Reince Priebus was seen by many as the sole concession to the traditional two-party system that our government operates under — in other words, he was the one Republican in the room who had a history of doing what he was doing and doing it well. That being said, many believed that the former RNC chair and the president were unable to see eye to eye after Priebus suggested that then-candidate Trump should drop out of the race once the Access Hollywood tape surfaced this past fall. Priebus has said on the record that he tendered his own resignation, though there still remains some speculation that the chief of staff was in fact forced out.

Sean Spicer had become a household name by the time he tendered his resignation to Donald Trump, though for many the worst part of his departure was knowing we'd no longer get to see Melissa McCarthy play him on SNL. The former press secretary had been rumored to be on the outs with Trump for months before the news broke that he was officially leaving, a move which he pegged solely on Trump's decision to appoint Anthony Scaramucci to head up the communications team, a move which he believed added "to the confusion and uncertainty already engulfing the White House."

It's been less than three months since James Comey was fired, but in that time, he has made the drastic shift from being scorned for his handling of the Hillary Clinton email scandals to being lauded for his bravery in the face of a career-ending termination — a transition which was made ever-so-slightly easier by strategic leaks from the former director to the media that the president so deeply loathes. While the FBI director was ostensibly removed from office in order to "relieve pressure" on the investigation into Donald Trump's Russian connections, it would later be revealed that Comey may also have sealed his fate by refusing to pledge allegiance to the president over the country.

Preet Bharara was one of 46 US attorneys who had been appointed by former President Barack Obama and asked to tender a resignation by President Donald Trump. Bharara, who represented Manhattan at the time, refused to quit his office as he had been told by Trump personally in November that he could stay on — and he was ultimately fired by the president on March 11.

While we may never hear the end of the Michael Flynn scandal — it seems like every day a new detail emerges about his dealings with Russia — what we do know is that it took an incredibly long time for Trump to fire someone who had been suspected of being compromised. Suffice it to say, this was probably a good decision on the White House's part.

Sally Yates has become a bit of a folk hero over the last few months, as her firing was a direct cause of her standing up for what she believed in. After refusing to endorse Trump's first executive order — the immigration ban — she was accused of "betrayal" and removed from her position as acting attorney general. It would later be revealed that Yates had warned the Trump administration about the potential conflict of interest with Michael Flynn, but her advice was not heeded.