Anthony Scaramucci. Jonathan Ernst/Reuters President Donald Trump on Monday removed Anthony Scaramucci as the White House communications director after he had served in the role for 10 days, The New York Times and other outlets reported.

The decision came at the urging of the new White House chief of staff, John Kelly, The Times reported, adding that it was unclear whether Scaramucci would leave the White House or remain employed in another capacity.

The decision came on Kelly's first day officially serving as chief of staff.

"Anthony Scaramucci will be leaving his role as White House communications director," White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement. "Mr. Scaramucci felt it was best to give chief of staff John Kelly a clean slate and the ability to build his own team. We wish him all the best."

Kelly talked to Scaramucci shortly after taking the oath of office and informed the communications director that he was being removed from his post, Wall Street Journal reporter Michael Bender said on Twitter. Scaramucci had told Kelly that he reported directly to the president, to which Kelly said he was "gone," a source told April Ryan, the White House correspondent for American Urban Radio Networks.

Meanwhile, multiple outlets reported that Scaramucci was escorted from White House grounds after his ouster.

Scaramucci made waves when he unloaded on Reince Priebus, then the chief of staff, to Ryan Lizza, a New Yorker reporter, who published the tirade on Thursday. On Friday, Priebus was out, and Trump announced Kelly as his replacement.

Sanders said in Monday's press briefing that Scaramucci "does not have a role at this time in the Trump administration," adding that Trump "certainly felt" Scaramucci's comments to The New Yorker "were inappropriate for a person in that position."

In addition to Priebus, Sean Spicer and Michael Short also resigned during Scaramucci's tenure — Spicer as the White House press secretary and Short as a press aide.

In that colorful New Yorker interview, Scaramucci called Priebus a "f------ paranoid schizophrenic, a paranoiac," because he believed that Priebus, who was vehemently against his appointment as communications director, leaked his financial disclosure to Politico. That disclosure was publicly available from Scaramucci's stint at the Export-Import Bank.

Scaramucci told Lizza that Priebus would "be asked to resign very shortly" and that virtually everyone in the White House communications shop would "all be fired by me."

Imitating Priebus, Scaramucci suggested that the chief of staff was "c--k-blocking" his appointment for months. He also turned his attention to chief strategist Steve Bannon, whom he described as seeking media attention.

"I'm not Steve Bannon, I'm not trying to suck my own c---," Scaramucci said. "I'm not trying to build my own brand off the f------ strength of the president. I'm here to serve the country."

Scaramucci, a Wall Street financier, said that what he wanted to do was "f------ kill all the leakers" so he could "get the president's agenda on track."

He offered a brief response to the interview.

"I sometimes use colorful language," he tweeted. "I will refrain in this arena but not give up the passionate fight for @realDonaldTrump's agenda. #MAGA."

Later Thursday, The Washington Post reported that Scaramucci and his allies were compiling a diagram of news outlets they believed Priebus leaked information to. A White House official said Scaramucci and his team planned to present their findings to Trump on Friday.

But as Priebus' departure from the administration was announced that day, The New York Post reported that Scaramucci's wife had filed for divorce.

Benjy Sarlin of NBC News noted that President Ronald Reagan had a communications director who served for nearly as long. That communications director, John Koehler, resigned after it became public that he was in a Nazi youth organization when he was 10.