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Dan Scavino
Deputy Chief of Staff; Director of Presidential Personnel — Executive Office of the President
Signature issue: Personnel — who gets hired across the administration — and the White House social-video operation
Scoreboard tally
Wins, pending items, and setbacks on this profile are tallied from published scoreboard entries — never set by hand. The tally begins with the first reviewed weekly entry that scores this official.
Role status — October 2026: Scavino is incumbent as Deputy Chief of Staff and, since October 2025, simultaneously Director of Presidential Personnel. The personnel job reached him by way of Sergio Gor’s departure: when Gor left for the ambassadorship to India in January 2026 (in post in New Delhi from January 12), the Presidential Personnel Office went to Scavino, making the deputy chief of staff the gatekeeper for administration hiring — the dual hat he still holds in the sources checked.
His public mode is unusual and worth recording precisely: he is a high-volume social-media producer (rated moderate for social video) who rarely speaks on camera (quiet as a speaking figure). Research also establishes a boundary this chronicle will keep: Scavino helps operate the President’s Truth Social feed, but that feed is the President’s account and is never labeled as Scavino’s own channel. No sourced criticism of Scavino was carried in this research pass, and none is asserted here.
Verified channels:
- Personal / official-role X: @DanScavino
- NOT his account: the President’s Truth Social feed, which he helps operate — it is credited to the President on this site, never to Scavino
Video sources: MODERATE (social) / QUIET (speaking). His own X feed carries frequent short video; formal speaking footage is rare and lives on White House and C-SPAN channels when it occurs. No verified personal YouTube channel was found in research.
Why he matters to this chronicle: Personnel is policy in an administration that has churned as fast as this one — every appointment, acting official, and vacancy tracked on this site passed through, or was shaped by, the office Scavino has run since October 2025. His profile is the roster’s back office: the staffer behind the staffing.
Sources (Oct 2026): Research Cluster C (2026-10-18) on Scavino’s dual role (Deputy CoS + Presidential Personnel Director since Oct 2025), the Gor succession, his verified X handle, his video profile, and his role in operating the President’s Truth feed.