Reince Priebus is out as White House Chief of Staff. To be replaced by Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly.
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….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 28, 2017
…and a Great Leader. John has also done a spectacular job at Homeland Security. He has been a true star of my Administration
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 28, 2017
What remains to be seen is whether Secretary Kelly will be empowered to actually be a proper Chief of Staff and impose a proper structure and order to the White House staff or whether he, like Priebus, will be set up for failure by the President and his preference for competing power structures and an unorthodox, lacking in structure staff setup. Secretary Kelly’s military bio can be found here. Secretary Kelly is now moving into a fully political job without having any explicit political experience*.
ETA (6:30 PM EDT): The key issue is going to be whether Secretary Kelly is actually empowered. If Scaramucci, Bannon, Miller, Hicks, Conway, everyone else at the White House does not report to Kelly then he will be chief of staff in name only.
I would also expect a significant delay in replacing him as the Secretary of Homeland Security. The Senate calendar is exceedingly tight, as the Senate work days are now short, between now and the end of the fiscal year.
This follows a busy day for the President. Earlier, in an address on cracking down on MS 13 and other gang violence to Suffolk County, NY Police he gave them permission to engage in police brutality. That authorization, for lack of a better term, begins at the 29:15 mark of the video below:
I fully expect that the President’s encouragement of police brutality will soon begin to appear in the formal legal defenses of law enforcement accused of such conduct.
* Secretary Kelly, as a retired general officer/flag officer, has implicit political experience. All general officers/flag officers are political creatures. They have to be to earn stars for their flags and to interact with both their peers and their civilian superiors/masters.