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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHope 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
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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.
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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 its 'the year of the outsider.' It helps to have people with outsider perspective," Hicks said Trump told her.
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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.
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sunonmars
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rurallib
(62,416 posts)just sayin'
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Great. Because that's been working out so well for the presidency.
Watchfoxheadexplodes
(3,496 posts)Your hired
tenderfoot
(8,434 posts)"Hicks's big job in politics startednot that long agowith 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 inand 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 wellhelped by the eager-to-please disposition she'd displayed since childhood.
In Greenwich, Connecticut, as a kid, she was an athlete and a model whoafter appearing in a Ralph Lauren adtold 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 wasnt always so earnest, however. In her senior yearbook, she mistakenly attributed the words of Eleanor RooseveltThe future belongs to those who believe in the power of their dreamsto 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 stereotypethe 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."
C_U_L8R
(45,002 posts)kimbutgar
(21,150 posts)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.
sarisataka
(18,655 posts)Of Joseph Goebbels or Winston Smith?
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)edhopper
(33,580 posts)can we say blow job.
6000eliot
(5,643 posts)bdamomma
(63,849 posts)don the con Mr Big Hands, yea I bet, and he calls her Hopester.
lindysalsagal
(20,686 posts)But how the hell would I know?
applegrove
(118,659 posts)Last edited Wed Aug 16, 2017, 11:52 PM - Edit history (1)
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.
milestogo
(16,829 posts)How exactly does that work?
marlakay
(11,468 posts)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.