Trump After Dark: The HR Department edition

Soon. Not quite yet. Eventually?

The prolonged goodbye of President Donald Trump’s national security adviser H.R. McMaster has a familiar pattern to it: Rumors swirl, potential replacements are floated and then — no immediate action from President Trump. Perhaps even a White House denial.

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Getting “Tillersoned,” as POLITICO’s Eliana Johnson and Matthew Nussbaum report.

“Like now-former secretary of state Rex Tillerson, whom the president dismissed earlier this week, McMaster has never clicked with the president, who prizes personal chemistry and likes to shoot the breeze. And as with the secretary of state, the president decided months ago amid disagreements over his Afghanistan strategy that McMaster wouldn’t be a permanent fixture in his administration.”

But, as the week wound down into the weekend McMaster was still there.

Programming note: Trump After Dark is taking a spring break. We’ll see you back here March 26.

Elsewhere in President Trump’s orbit:

NRA INVESTIGATED: The FEC is looking into allegations that Russians funneled donations to the National Rifle Association.

A NADER PROBLEM: George Nader a witness in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation pleaded guilty to child pornography charges in 1991.

STORM CHASING: President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, filed to move a lawsuit by porn star Stormy Daniels to federal court a move that could make arbitration easier.

BAD ANALYTICA: Facebook has suspended Cambridge Analytica — a data analysis and communications firm best known for its work for President Donald Trump’s campaign — over concerns that it and other parties improperly obtained and stored users’ personal information.

There you have it. You’re caught up on the Trump administration. Happy Friday.