White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus (Getty Images)

A week after he hired passionately loyal and passionately vulgar Anthony Scaramucci to be his new communication director, President Donald Trump announced that he fired his chief of staff, Reince Priebus. He tweeted, “I would like to thank Reince Priebus for his service and dedication to his country. We accomplished a lot together and I am proud of him!”

Trump revealed the news on his personal Twitter account, first saying, “I am pleased to inform you that I have just named General/Secretary John F Kelly as White House Chief of Staff. He is a Great American….”

Priebus, as well as White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, had objected to the hiring Scaramucci, a Long Island native investment banker. The presence of Scaramucci, known as the Mooch and who would report directly to Trump (and not Priebus), prompted White House press secretary Sean Spicer to resign.

Scaramucci’s disdain for Priebus came to the fore when he called New Yorker reporter Ryan Lizza, offering extremely colorful and explicit quotes as he accused Priebus of leaking details of a dinner, “I fired one guy the other day. I have three to four people I’ll fire tomorrow. I’ll get to the person who leaked that to you. Reince Priebus—if you want to leak something—he’ll be asked to resign very shortly” and “Reince is a fucking paranoid schizophrenic, a paranoiac.”

The NY Times writes that Trump was “[c]onvinced that Mr. Priebus was not strong enough” and that he “has been talking about bringing in ‘a general’ as chief of staff and chose… But some of his advisers oppose that idea, arguing that Mr. Trump needs someone more in tune with the nationalist political movement that helped propel him to the White House.”

Mr. Priebus, a former chairman of the Republican National Committee, lost his job just hours after the president’s signature drive to repeal his predecessor’s health care program collapsed on the Senate floor and a day after an ugly feud with the new communications director erupted in a public airing of the deep animosities plaguing the White House.

The announcement capped a fraught 24 hours in which the president’s advisers waited for a change they had long anticipated. Mr. Priebus accompanied Mr. Trump on Air Force One for a day trip to Long Island as his fate was being decided. Making for a tense flight, his rival, Anthony Scaramucci, the communications director who had publicly vowed to force Mr. Priebus’s resignation, was also on the plane and in the motorcade.

Reports have said that Priebus and Bannon became allies against others close to Trump, like daughter Ivanka Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner, who pushed for Scaramucci’s position.

The Wall Street Journal characterized Priebus’s dismissal as “aimed at bringing order to an administration that has been beset by infighting, as Mr. Trump seeks to notch the sort of sweeping legislative victories that have eluded him to this point, advisers to the president said.”

Now we can wait for the Priebus’ version of “Inside the 24 hours that broke Sean Spicer.” At least one source “close to Priebus” is already saying he resigned yesterday.