Donald Trump’s White House has shown that it will discard officials who become liabilities, but the consequences described here have landed much harder on prominent women than on scandal burdened men. Susie Wiles is the latest woman pushed out while male officials endure punishing headlines and remain in place.

The abrupt reversal began with a question on Friday, Oct. 16, when a reporter asked Trump whether he was considering replacing Wiles as White House chief of staff. The president dismissed the possibility and appeared annoyed that it had been raised at all.

Trump answered, “Zero chance,” then repeated, “Zero.” He went further in praising Wiles and forecasting her staying power: “She’s phenomenal. … Susie is here and she’s going to be here for a long time.”

That promise lasted only until Friday, Nov. 6, when Trump replaced Wiles with Stephen Miller. Soon afterward, the president made clear that Wiles had not voluntarily departed from one of the most prominent positions in his administration.

“I wanted to make a change,” Trump told reporters that Friday afternoon. The Republican added, “We’ve got to make moves. Sometimes in life, you have to make moves.”

Wiles joined a growing roster of women who lost powerful administration jobs after becoming inconvenient to the White House. Her removal followed another especially turbulent series of dismissals just three weeks earlier.

Trump ended Katie Zacharia’s brief and disastrous tenure as White House press secretary after only five days. That firing came immediately after the president removed U.S. Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle.

The list extends beyond Wiles, Zacharia and Guilfoyle. It also includes former Attorney General Pam Bondi, former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, former Labor Secretary Lori Chavez DeRemer and former Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.

Nearly all of those women were replaced by men, according to the account of the administration’s personnel changes. Zacharia is the exception because the White House has not yet replaced her with anyone.

The argument is not that these former officials were treated unfairly or deserved to keep their positions. On the contrary, the case can readily be made that Wiles, Zacharia, Guilfoyle, Bondi, Noem, Chavez DeRemer and Gabbard all warranted removal from office.

The revealing contrast comes from how the administration has handled men who encountered trouble. Mike Waltz, the former White House national security adviser, received a comfortable landing and became the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

Former IRS chief Billy Long also received an ambassadorship after the administration grew wary of him. Those outcomes look considerably more generous than the unemployment handed to multiple women caught in the administration’s churn.

Noem was technically named a “special envoy” to the Shield of the Americas after leaving her Cabinet position. But the entity barely appeared to exist in a meaningful sense, and Noem was later removed from that position as well.

Meanwhile, War Secretary Pete Hegseth, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., FBI Director Kash Patel and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick have moved from one brutal headline to another. Rather than being fired, they have received little more than presidential approval.

Women including Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, Education Secretary Linda McMahon and Small Business Administrator Kelly Loeffler still serve in the Cabinet. Yet Trump told CBS’ “60 Minutes” that he is considering “a few changes,” leaving the security of their jobs unclear as the administration’s striking personnel pattern continues.