Originally Posted: October 17, 2018
Victoria Farrar-Myers, Senior Fellow at the SMU Tower Center, opines on the impact of the record number of departures from the Trump Cabinet.
Departures of high-level executives in business are usually indications of the health of the enterprise. While this seems intuitive, the same frame has not always applied to presidential administrations. In fact, there is a whole set of literature that studies the presidential administration from transition to culmination. This research indicates that those who work in the 24/7 world of the White House usually depart by the latter half of the first term.
The Trump administration, as it has in so many other ways, defies this conventional wisdom. Already within the first 21 months of his presidency, Donald Trump has lost more cabinet level officers than any other president in the last 100 years during their first two years in office.
The latest departure was Nikki Haley stepping down as ambassador to the United Nations. Rumors of why she chose to depart and, more importantly, why she made the announcement prior to an all-important test of the Trump Administration in the upcoming midterms, makes her anything but just the latest departure. READ MORE