February proved to be one of the most bizarre months in President Donald Trump's White House.

The month was headlined by weeks of some of the most tumultuous internal drama yet.

The end results of that drama have rattled the administration, and no one knows what comes next.



As January wound down to a close, The Washington Post's Ashley Parker wrote how the month "felt like a year and the pilot episode for the 12-part series to come."

February did not disappoint as the series' second episode.

Consider the 28th and final day:

President Donald Trump blasted his Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, whom he reportedly calls "Mr. Magoo."

There was a report of a "death match" between White House chief of staff John Kelly and top Trump aides and family members Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump.

Trump's longest-tenured aide Hope Hicks announced a stunning resignation from the White House.

Reports emerged that Kushner's family business received loans after key White House meetings.

Trump called out a Republican senator on camera for being "afraid of the NRA."

In the same meeting, he suggested that he would like to "take the guns first, go through due process second" when considering how to handle the availability of firearms to people with mental illness.

The theme of the month was one of strife at the White House — arguably, its most tumultuous month internally yet.

The Rob Porter scandal

The month went off the rails after Rob Porter, a top White House aide, was accused by his two ex-wives of physical and emotional abuse.

At the time, Porter, who strongly denied the allegations, was dating Hicks. Top White House officials, including Kelly, immediately stood by Porter, defending him publicly even after his resignation was reported. Kelly soon came under fire for his initial response, which Hicks helped craft.

The knives were out for Kelly at this point.

"Kelly is now just another staffer who could get fired any day of the week by Donald J. Trump," one person close to the White House told Business Insider.

Omarosa, Michael Cohen and a porn star

Amid the Porter scandal, former top Trump staffers came back into the public conscience.

Former top White House aide Omarosa Manigault began her stint on the CBS reality show "Celebrity Big Brother."

She unloaded on Trump, saying she was "haunted" by his tweets "every single day." The country, she said, is "going to not be OK."

Meanwhile, Michael Cohen, Trump's longtime personal lawyer, admitted he facilitated a $130,000 payment to porn star Stormy Daniels prior to the 2016 presidential election.

That payment was the center of a controversy over whether Trump was involved in paying off Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, prior to the 2016 presidential election to stay quiet about an alleged 2006 affair.

"As Trump's personal attorney, Cohen was an agent of then-candidate Trump. The timing and circumstances of the $130,000 payment to Daniels make it appear that the hush money was paid to Daniels in an effort to influence the election," Paul S. Ryan, vice president of litigation and policy for Common Cause, said in a statement.

Trump unleashes on Presidents Day weekend

Trump went off with one of his wildest weekends as president. Within the span of a few days on the Presidents Day holiday weekend, Trump ranted at length about everything from those indictments to Oprah Winfrey.