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It has eaten up and chewed out three Trump operatives, and now the job of White House communications director has fallen to Hope Hicks, a 28-year-old political neophyte and former PR professional.
Hicks, who has been working as Donald Trumps director of strategic communications, was drafted into the administrations most high-profile media relations job to replace Anthony Scaramucci, whose 11-day tenure as White House communications director ended after an expletive-filled tirade to a reporter.
Her promotion to the post on an interim basis comes during one of the biggest communications challenges in recent memory.
After Trump went off message and blamed both sides for deadly violence between white supremacists and counter-protesters at a rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, criticism of the president was strong.
Members of Congress in both parties urged a defiant president to more forcefully denounce the neo-Nazis and white supremacists who marched through the college town. Other lawmakers openly questioned the presidents competence and moral leadership. Business leaders whom Trump, a businessman himself, enjoyed inviting to the White House fled the advisory boards they had agreed to serve on, while leaders of the armed services denounced racism and hatred without naming their commander in chief.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/19/fourth-time-lucky-former-model-hope-hicks-is-trumps-new-spin-doctor-in-chief
Let's put this in total perspective, she supports a racists, bigot, misogynistic ass****, where are the principles
dalton99a
(81,599 posts)lapfog_1
(29,227 posts)to tell us what we have "won"... right?
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,902 posts)There is no one on the face of this planet (with the tiny possible exception of Putin) who can keep Trump from saying whatever comes into his tiny brain.
What Hope Hicks has going for her is that she's an attractive female, and Trump values looks in women above everything else. So maybe she'll last a bit longer, simply because she's eye candy. But she does not seem to have anything remotely resembling the background or experience to do this job.
BigmanPigman
(51,635 posts)I wonder if Monica Lewinsky's old secret tunnel into the Oval Office is still in working order?
flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)At Ivanka's agency or something? Not that the cabinet isn't filled with unqualified people. I also heard his nickname for her is "Hopesie". Also, ewww.
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)I've lost 20 pounds on this plan with no sense of deprivation.
flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)...rent-free apartment in Trump tower.
I'm so grossed out right now.
7wo7rees
(5,128 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Then again, no one else was up for the job.