The rapid rise and fall of ‘The Mooch’

JULY 21 Anthony Scaramucci is made White House communications director, prompting press secretary Sean Spicer to resign

JULY 24 His wife Deidre gives birth to their son James. Scaramucci is not present at the birth, instead staying with President Trump at a boy scouts event in West Virginia

JULY 26 In an interview with the New Yorker, Scaramucci launches an extraordinary, foulmouthed tirade against Trump’s chief strategist Steve Bannon and chief of staff Reince Priebus, calling the latter ‘a ‘f****** paranoid schizophrenic’ and ‘a leaker’ who had committed a felony. JULY 27 Priebus resigns as White House chief of staff.

JULY 28 Reports emerge claiming Scaramucci’s wife filed for divorce while nine months pregnant because of his ‘naked political ambition’.

JULY 29 Sources say Scaramucci did not visit his wife for four days after their child’s birth, instead texting her saying ‘Congratulations, I’ll pray for our child.’

JULY 31 Scaramucci is removed from his role at the request of Trump’s new chief of staff General John Kelly.