Former White House Press Secretary Anthony Scaramucci publicly urged President Donald Trump's most senior officials on Friday to begin the process of removing the president "before it gets worse."

The appeal came shortly after Trump announced that senior advisor Stephen Miller would replace Susie Wiles as chief of staff, a decision that prompted widespread criticism that the president and his allies had failed to absorb the message of the midterm elections.

"[Vice President JD] Vance and [Secretary of State Marco] Rubio should move quickly," Scaramucci asserted on X. "Work with the cabinet or the senate and seek Trump's removal to start the process of trying to rebuild the party before it gets worse."

Scaramucci, no stranger to White House chaos after his famously eclectic stint in Trump's first administration, was invoking the 25th Amendment, which allows for a president's removal if the vice president, a majority of the cabinet, and the Senate agree he is "unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office." Ratified in 1967 after President John F. Kennedy's assassination, the amendment has never been used to remove a sitting president, and its mechanics place any such decision with the vice president and cabinet secretaries Trump selected — not the former aides calling for it from the outside. In effect, Trump's former press secretary is arguing that Miller's appointment amounts to a dereliction of duty.

The chief of staff is among the most powerful unelected positions in any White House, overseeing the staff, controlling access to the president, and steering the administration's day-to-day agenda. Miller has been a key force behind some of the administration's most unpopular actions. He helmed the wave of executive orders Trump signed in the first 100 days of his second term, is one of the chief proponents of the president's mass deportation scheme and the aggressive tactics used by ICE, helped architect the weaponization of the Justice Department against MAGA's political opponents, and spearheads much of the White House's anti-press stance.

As many observers have noted, Miller's promotion is likely to reinforce the administration's most extreme tendencies — the very tendencies for which the GOP was just firmly rebuked in the midterms. New Yorker staff writer Susan Glasser wrote on X that the message behind the appointment was clear: "Trump to the Voters: Screw You."

Scaramucci, who previously called for Trump's removal over genocidal statements the president made regarding Iran, is not the only figure from Trump's orbit sounding the alarm. Miles Taylor, who served as the Department of Homeland Security's deputy chief of staff during Trump's first term, wrote on X: "I spent two years working with Stephen Miller. His appointment as White House chief of staff is among the most dangerous personnel decisions in the history of our republic. I say that without reservation."

Trump biographer Seth Abramson wrote on X: "I would certainly read into the flood of DOJ resignations we're seeing that at least some of these people know what's coming with Stephen Miller as Chief of Staff and — despite long being fascist-curious themselves — feel that the coming storm is beyond anything even they can stomach."