Donald Trump's Tweet Master Could Leave White House, Report Says

The man behind President Donald Trump's Twitter feed is reportedly contemplating an exit from the White House as the president's administration deals with another potential wave of departures.

Dan Scavino Jr., the White House's social media director and one of the handful of staff members who were part of the Trump campaign and later headed to Washington, is part of a number of top White House brass considering a departure, according to The New York Times on Tuesday.

Scavino's outsized role within the administration is often on full display with each of the president's tweets. The 42-year-old is one of few people with access to Trump's Twitter account and reports have indicated he has sent out tweets in the president's voice.

Trump's use of Twitter on the campaign trail has been credited, and criticized, for helping the billionaire not only win the White House but directly reach his supporters with decrees of media bias, corruption and praise for his work in office.

Scavino, 42, met Trump when he was a teenager working at an upstate New York golf course and eventually became so much a part of Trump's inner circle that he was tasked with heading up the president's social media arm in February 2016.

Detecting Scavino's fingerprints on a tweet can be a rather simple process and he's known to have Trump's tweet-voice down to a tee. Often, Scavino's "Trump" tweets have fewer misspellings and he can use Twitter's "thread" feature to string together messages, unlike the president who fires off multiple single tweets at a time, Wired noted.

The White House did not immediately respond to Newsweek's request for comment about Scavino's possible departure.

Given the power Trump's tweets carry to impact both policy and the news cycle each day, it's highly unlikely the president will limit his use of social media should Scavino actually leave.

But if Scavino did depart, he would be one of many high-level members of Trump's administration to leave.

Along with Scavino, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, deputy press secretary Raj Shah and White House general counsel Don McGahn are also considering an exit, according to The Times.

Sanders and Shah's contemplation was first reported last week, but Sanders took to Twitter to denounce the initial report claiming she loved her job and that the story was run without speaking to her, despite CBS News claiming it had reached out to her several times and did not receive a response.

Still, Sanders response was parsed by many as not an outright denial of a potential exit.