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    Don't Look Away: Stuff Happens Fast In Trump's First Summer In Washington

    Even as the GOP's assault on Obamacare lurched and stumbled to a stop, America's attention was divided by other stories — some important, some of lesser consequence and some of greater shock value.
    by Ron Elving Jul 29, 2017 5 minutes
    With President Trump in January: White House chief of staff Reince Priebus (from second left), Vice President Pence, chief strategist Steve Bannon, press secretary Sean Spicer and national security adviser Michael Flynn listen. Just six months later, only Bannon is still serving in the Trump-Pence administration. / Drew Angerer / Getty Images

    The week had almost ended when the Twitter item crossed. Minutes before quitting time, less than an hour after the markets closed: Gen. John Kelly named White House chief of staff.

    The secretary of Homeland Security was replacing Reince Priebus at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

    After about six months and a week, the former chairman of the Republican National Committee had been removed as the No. 1 aide to President Trump.

    For some among Trump's legions of loyalists, this may be a shock. Priebus was the ultimate symbol of the GOP's establishment bowing to the populist billionaire from Fifth Avenue. He was the man who married the party to the personality and presided over one of the greatest upsets in presidential election history.

    Priebus had been embattled almost from the

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