Contact Amanda Farnan Press Secretary (774) 571–3639 [email protected] The Turnover at the Top of the Trump Administration November 25, 2019 Mr. Trump has the record for cabinet turnover in a president’s first term, according to Kathryn Dunn Tenpas, a scholar at the Brookings Institution who wrote a presidential staff turnover study. He also has the record for White House churn, she said.