USA – White House communications director Mike Dubke is leaving the administration, he said yesterday, amid swirling speculation about a possible Trump staff shakeup.

He told CNN yesterday he submitted his resignation on May 18 but offered to stay until the end of President Donald Trump’s foreign trip. A final day has not been set, Dubke said. “It has been a privilege to serve this president”, Dubke said in a phone interview.

Dubke said he had a good conversation with the President after submitting his resignation. He declined to discuss the turmoil inside the West Wing, only saying he was resigning for a number of reasons.  Dubke had been in the process of divesting from Crossroads and Black Rock Group, two communications firms at which he worked before joining the administration, and was nearing the point when he would have had to complete the divestiture, a friend said.(CNN)[+]