John Kelly In, Reince Priebus Out as White House Chief of Staff

President Donald Trump announced the latest White House shakeup via Twitter on Friday afternoon, tweeting that John F. Kelly would replace Reince Preibus as White House chief of staff.

The move follows months of speculation that Priebus was not long for the job, which grew to a fever pitch when Trump took on rival Anthony Scaramucci as his communications director last week. Priebus successfully convinced Trump not to give Scaramucci a role in his administration in January.

Priebus, the former three-term chair of the Republican National Committee, struggled to bring order and unity to Trump’s chaotic White House.* Priebus reportedly resigned privately on Thursday, according to sources with knowledge of Priebus’ conversations with Trump.

The president has grown obsessed in recent months with White House information leaking into the press, and Scaramucci is convinced Priebus has been responsible. The new comms director viciously attacked Priebus, calling him “a f—-ing paranoid schizophrenic” in a conversation with the New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza.

“Oh, Bill Shine is coming in,” Scaramucci said to Lizza, imitating Priebus. “Let me leak the f—-ing thing and see if I can cock-block these people the way I cock-blocked Scaramucci for six months.”

Kelly, Priebus’s replacement, is a retired Marine Corps general and the former commander of the U.S. Southern Command. As Secretary of Homeland Security, he has ferociously advocated for Trump’s agenda, most notably by advocating for the complete construction of the U.S.-Mexican border wall within two years.

Kelly has also repeatedly demonstrated the personal loyalty Trump craves by defending the administration’s conduct on television. In March, when Trump baselessly accused Barack Obama of ordering him wiretapped, Kelly said Trump must have “some convincing evidence that took place.” In May, Kelly defended Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner after it was reported that Kushner had attempted to set up a back channel to communicate with Russia.

“There’s a lot of different ways to communicate, back channel publicly with other countries,” Kelly said. “I don’t see any issue here relative to Jared.”

The president thanked Priebus for his service after the announcement.

*Correction: The article incorrectly stated that Priebus clashed frequently with Trump adviser Steve Bannon.