Hope Hicks, longtime adviser to President Donald Trump, walks to her seat before the start of the daily briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2017. (Photo: AP)
Hope Hicks, longtime aide to President Donald Trump, has officially been named as the new White House Communications Director. Ms. Hicks, 28, was reluctant to take the job of communications director, but has been one of Mr. Trump’s closest aides since before the start of his run for the presidency.
She was one of the first staffers on the official Trump Campaign and named to the post on an interim basis in August, when Anthony Scaramucci was ousted by White House Chief of Staff John Kelly on his first day. Mr. Scaramucci was the third White House Communications Director to serve and leave the post, which had been vacant since late May. He served only 10 full days.
Mike Dubke, rumored to have been a leaker, left after only three months on the job.
Sean Spicer, the former White House Press Secretary, took over as communications director role before he resigned when Mr. Scaramucci was hired on July 21.
Ms. Hicks also worked for The Trump Organization where she worked in several roles including various projects for Ivanka Trump, senior White House adviser and President Trump’s daughter.
The Trump White House now has three women in major roles in the communication and press shops. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is the White House Press Secretary and Stephanie Grisham is the Communications Director for first lady Melania Trump.
“We have never had a female press secretary and a female communications director [at the same time], ever, in the history of the White House — and we do in this one,” Secretary Sanders said on ABC’s “The View” last week.
