On Friday, Oct. 16, a reporter asked Donald Trump if he was considering replacing Susie Wiles as White House chief of staff. “Zero chance,” the president replied. “Zero.” Seemingly annoyed by the question, he added, “She’s phenomenal. … Susie is here and she’s going to be here for a long time.”

On Friday, Nov. 6, Trump replaced Wiles with Stephen Miller, and soon after, he made it clear that Wiles’ ouster had not been voluntary.

“I wanted to make a change,” the Republican told reporters on Friday afternoon, adding, “We’ve got to make moves. Sometimes in life, you have to make moves.”

Three weeks earlier, Trump had made another move, ending Katie Zacharia’s brief, disastrous tenure as White House press secretary after just five days, which came immediately on the heels of the president ousting U.S. Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle.

They were hardly the only prominent officials to find themselves unemployed after proving inconvenient to the administration. On the contrary, they joined a list that includes former Attorney General Pam Bondi, former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, former Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer and former Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.

The pattern offers a timely reminder: The Trump administration is willing to part with officials who find themselves under a cloud of scandal, but men tend to fare far better than women. (In nearly all of these instances, the women who have been fired were replaced by men. The exception is Zacharia, who has not yet been replaced by anyone.)

The point is not that Wiles, Zacharia, Guilfoyle, Bondi, Noem, Chavez-DeRemer or Gabbard were somehow treated unfairly. On the contrary, it’s easy to make the case that they all deserved to be removed from office.

But when then-White House national security adviser Mike Waltz ran into trouble, he received a golden parachute and became the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. When the administration grew wary of then-IRS chief Billy Long, it rewarded him with an ambassadorship. (Yes, Noem was technically named a “special envoy” to the Shield of the Americas, but the entity barely seems to exist in any meaningful sense, and she was later removed from even that position.)

In the meantime, other prominent figures such as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., FBI Director Kash Patel and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick careen from one brutal headline to the next — all while receiving little more than a pat on the back from the president.

For the record, some women still continue to serve in the White House Cabinet (Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, Education Secretary Linda McMahon and Small Business Administrator Kelly Loeffler, for example). Even so, the president said during his latest interview with CBS’ “60 Minutes” that he’s eyeing “a few changes” to his Cabinet, so the degree to which their jobs are safe is unclear. Watch this space.

This post updates our related earlier coverage.

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