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applegrove

(118,659 posts)
Wed Aug 16, 2017, 07:01 PM Aug 2017

Hope Hicks is Trump's next communications director: Here's how a 28-year-old with no political

experience got into his inner circle

Rebecca Harrington at Business Insider

http://www.businessinsider.com/hope-hicks-bio-trump-spokeswoman-2017-2

"SNIP...........

She was a model, actress, and lacrosse player as a child, before getting her English degree at Southern Methodist University.

Hicks didn't intend on playing such a large role in a presidential campaign, instead falling into the gig through a job at the Trump Organization.
.......

In January 2015, Trump called Hicks into his office on the 26th floor of Trump Tower and told her she was joining his presidential campaign. "I think it’s 'the year of the outsider.' It helps to have people with outsider perspective," Hicks said Trump told her.

..........

Hicks didn't have any political experience, but her public-relations roots run deep. Both grandfathers worked in PR, and her father, Paul, was the NFL's executive vice president for communications and public relations. He was also a town selectman from 1987 to 1991. Greenwich proclaimed April 23, 2016, as Paul B. Hicks III Day.

............SNIP"

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Hope Hicks is Trump's next communications director: Here's how a 28-year-old with no political (Original Post) applegrove Aug 2017 OP
Easy....she lay down apparently, literally. sunonmars Aug 2017 #1
Post removed Post removed Aug 2017 #16
and some folks woud add 'Trump girlfriend' to the resume rurallib Aug 2017 #2
Another "outsider" perspective? smirkymonkey Aug 2017 #3
"You look like fox news hosts" Watchfoxheadexplodes Aug 2017 #4
Here's another expose from GQ tenderfoot Aug 2017 #5
I wonder what Melania thinks. C_U_L8R Aug 2017 #6
On the Sirius show today of michaelngelo signirale said she is thumps girlfriend on the side kimbutgar Aug 2017 #7
Is she scheduled to play the part sarisataka Aug 2017 #8
Knob gobblin' helps too, from what I hear. NightWatcher Aug 2017 #9
How many euphamistically ways edhopper Aug 2017 #10
Maybe her previous job was called "blow," to quote Hedwig. 6000eliot Aug 2017 #11
She calls bdamomma Aug 2017 #12
I'm gonna guess that she's merely arm candy for is insatiable ego. lindysalsagal Aug 2017 #13
That is what I thought. She's someone he wants to be seen with. God applegrove Aug 2017 #14
So his mistress is going to be his communications director? milestogo Aug 2017 #15
I got asked in a yougov poll about this marlakay Aug 2017 #17

Response to sunonmars (Reply #1)

tenderfoot

(8,434 posts)
5. Here's another expose from GQ
Wed Aug 16, 2017, 07:44 PM
Aug 2017
https://www.gq.com/story/hope-hicks-mystifying-triumph-donald-trump

"Hicks's big job in politics started—not that long ago—with a comparatively tiny gig in Trump Tower. In 2012, two years after she'd graduated from Southern Methodist, Hicks was working for a New York PR shop when she was dispatched to help one of the firm's major clients: Ivanka Trump.

At the time, Trump's daughter was expanding her fashion line, and Hicks was enlisted to pitch in—and even do a bit of modeling, appearing online in a practical mint-colored dress, black clutch, and heels, all from the Ivanka Trump collection.
Hicks grew close to Ivanka and began dressing like the heiress, who seemed worthy of the emulation. Ivanka was that rare female corporate leader who is also kind to other women, and she affected an air of competence that seemed to temper the boorishness of the Trump brand. Conveniently, as Hicks ingratiated herself to Ivanka, she won over The Donald as well—helped by the eager-to-please disposition she'd displayed since childhood.

In Greenwich, Connecticut, as a kid, she was an athlete and a model who—after appearing in a Ralph Lauren ad—told a local magazine she intended to be an actress. By high school she was swimming, rowing, and captaining the lacrosse team. (She'd go on to play on SMU's club team.) Kylie Burchell, Hicks's lacrosse coach, recalled her as one of the only players to abide by a no-alcohol policy. “I think the girls were annoyed at her a little bit,” she said. “She was trying to be a leader. She was showing by example what to do.” She wasn’t always so earnest, however. In her senior yearbook, she mistakenly attributed the words of Eleanor Roosevelt—“The future belongs to those who believe in the power of their dreams”—to Jimmy Buffett.

That Hicks, a pretty young lady from a tony town, would gravitate toward PR after college might have seemed obvious. Warranted or not, the PR Girl has become a kind of stereotype—the land-bound stewardess of the aughts. A profession thought to require little more than the ability to walk in a pair of Louboutins and harass people via e-mail. But the sorority-girl caricature wasn't what Hicks had in mind, or in her pedigree. In addition to her father, Paul, who directed PR at the NFL and now works for the D.C. power firm Glover Park Group, both of Hicks's grandfathers worked in public relations."

kimbutgar

(21,150 posts)
7. On the Sirius show today of michaelngelo signirale said she is thumps girlfriend on the side
Wed Aug 16, 2017, 07:53 PM
Aug 2017

And has a rent free apartment in thump tower. Rosie o donnell told him and he's heard it from others.

That said, I think it would be ghastly and horrible to sleep with him! The thought makes me want to vomit.

applegrove

(118,659 posts)
14. That is what I thought. She's someone he wants to be seen with. God
Wed Aug 16, 2017, 08:50 PM
Aug 2017

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only knows that he has spent his life with women in their 20s and 30s. It is novel for him to still be with Melania in her late 40s. He's probably not allowed to complement Ivanka anymore. That was weird. So he has somebody new who has got the looks that he can flatter himself with by having her work for him.

marlakay

(11,468 posts)
17. I got asked in a yougov poll about this
Thu Aug 17, 2017, 12:48 AM
Aug 2017

but I didn't like the way they asked. They asked me if I thought it was ok for a 28 yr old to do a job like that if qualified.

I said yes, but nowhere in the poll did it state she wasn't qualified. They mentioned Hope and her new job, then said do you have a problem with someone young doing a job like that if qualified. But because they mentioned her I could tell they are going to take the yes votes as she is okay.

I only answered it yes because I have no problem with a younger person doing a job if qualified. My daughter is in her 30's and top manager at her company. She worked hard to get there and I know when owner made her boss some thought she was too young but she has done great job.


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