"You're fired from the senior government position to which I appointed you."

"Why?"

"Because you're apparently next in line to be Acting Secretary, but I already named someone else to that post. So I need to fire you so that it doesn't look like I didn't know what I was doing." https://t.co/qHb5JENcXB

— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) April 8, 2019