Current chief of staff to Mike Pence tweeted his thanks to the president, but said he would be leaving at the end of the year
A bad week for Donald Trump ended with the news that his first choice to replace John Kelly as White House chief of staff will not take the role.
On Sunday Nick Ayers, currently chief of staff to Mike Pence, tweeted his thanks to Trump, the vice-president “and my great colleagues for the honour to serve our nation at the White House. I will be departing at the end of the year but will work with the # MAGA team to advance the cause.”
Kelly’s departure, long expected, had been trailed through a week of political drama in which Trump announced new picks for attorney general, UN ambassador and chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and weathered damaging developments in the Mueller investigation into his links with Russia.
