Well, that didn't take long.
Anthony Scaramucci, White House communication director for 10 days, was the first casualty of new Trump administration Chief of Staff John Kelly.
The retired Marine Corps general wasted no time.
Named late Friday afternoon to replace ousted Reince Priebus and sworn in Monday morning, Kelly brought a general's rigor to work with him. By 2:30 p.m. Monday, the news was out that Scaramucci - the guy who claimed he'd soon be firing people - was himself fired by the president at Kelly's request.
Frankly, it's the most positive thing that's happened in the Trump administration throughout its six-months tenure.
There may yet be hope.
Judging from the reactions over the weekend, Republicans on Capitol Hill are praying that Kelly, known for his peevish attention to detail, will bring order to a White House where disorder has reigned, with no major legislative victories and steadily slumping poll numbers.
Kelly served as the commander of United States Southern Command for four years under President Barack Obama and served as a commanding general in Iraq from 2008 to 2009.
Kelly's history and Scaramucci's quick exit would indicate he could be more than a match for the many Trump court jesters.
Still, bringing order to the Trump White House will be a tall order - especially given Trump's reliance on voices outside the White House. Add to that the fact that Trump has more assistants to the president - a senior role in the White House - than any modern commander in chief, according to CNN.
Trump has at least 26 assistants, including family members such as Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner. Obama had 22 assistants during his first year in office, while former President George W. Bush had as many as 17 assistants.
That's a lot of cats to herd - and all have egos the size of Kansas. The key question is whether Trump's many advisers will report now through the general or still directly to Trump.
CNN reported over the weekend that many of Trump's top advisers are fully bought into the chief of staff change.
"Jared and Ivanka are very supportive of him [Kelly] coming in and have a tremendous amount of admiration for him and will follow his lead on how he wants things done," CNN quoted a source Sunday. "They will follow his lead. They want this to work."
We bet they do. Seriously. The whole country needs this to work.
But each time things can't seem to get worse in this administration, they do. The Scaramucci hiring was just the most recent evidence. And remember, Scaramucci's hiring had Jared and Ivanka's blessing, too. In fact, he was their idea.
Then he lit the place on fire: former press secretary Sean Spicer resigned in protest, Scaramucci feuded publicly with Priebus and accused him of leaking financial information about Scaramucci's business and conflicts of interest (it wasn't leaked as it was public information the moment Scaramucci filled out the ethics forms and went on the White House payroll). But the topper was when he disparaged Priebus and other White House advisers - including Steve Bannon - in a profane tirade and interview with the New Yorker. And once he'd run off both Spicer and Priebus, he wasn't so useful anymore.
Funny, huh? The guy known on TV for loving to say "you're fired," has to bring in a tough-talking hedge fund manager known as "the Mooch" to say "get out of here, you're done" to some of Trump's senior people.
But in the end, not even Scaramucci could out Trump Trump. That said, it seems unlikely Kelly can change what most needs changing - the president himself.
"No WH chaos!" Trump tweeted Monday morning, then he proceeded vent his displeasure over losing the health care tax break the rich by threatening insurance companies and Congress via Twitter.
Kelly made a good start. We'll grant him that. But his continued success must be measured by the tenor and tone of Trump's continuing tweets.