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turbinetree

(24,720 posts)
Sat Aug 19, 2017, 10:26 AM Aug 2017

Fourth time lucky? Former model Hope Hicks is Trump's new spin doctor in chief

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 Trump’s director of strategic communications, was drafted into the administration’s 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 president’s 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



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Fourth time lucky? Former model Hope Hicks is Trump's new spin doctor in chief (Original Post) turbinetree Aug 2017 OP
Hope Hicks, Nazi mouthpiece dalton99a Aug 2017 #1
Every gane show host needs a spokes model lapfog_1 Aug 2017 #2
The underlying problem is Trump himself. PoindexterOglethorpe Aug 2017 #3
Rumor has it that she may be a bit more than eye candy. BigmanPigman Aug 2017 #4
heard that too... she was formerly a model flibbitygiblets Aug 2017 #5
I regularly picture them having sweaty sex. Dave Starsky Aug 2017 #6
so, she makes as much as Bannon, Priebus, Spicey--despite no experience, AND flibbitygiblets Aug 2017 #10
Trump can hope hicks like her as much as they like him. n/t 7wo7rees Aug 2017 #7
Talk about misplaced hope ProudLib72 Aug 2017 #8
She makes Donald smile... kentuck Aug 2017 #9
They all make me spiderpig Aug 2017 #11
"principles"?!1 - there are "principles" involved?!1 See Posts starting with #4!1 UTUSN Aug 2017 #12

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,902 posts)
3. The underlying problem is Trump himself.
Sat Aug 19, 2017, 10:30 AM
Aug 2017

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)
4. Rumor has it that she may be a bit more than eye candy.
Sat Aug 19, 2017, 10:34 AM
Aug 2017

I wonder if Monica Lewinsky's old secret tunnel into the Oval Office is still in working order?

flibbitygiblets

(7,220 posts)
5. heard that too... she was formerly a model
Sat Aug 19, 2017, 10:50 AM
Aug 2017

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)
6. I regularly picture them having sweaty sex.
Sat Aug 19, 2017, 11:14 AM
Aug 2017

I've lost 20 pounds on this plan with no sense of deprivation.

flibbitygiblets

(7,220 posts)
10. so, she makes as much as Bannon, Priebus, Spicey--despite no experience, AND
Sat Aug 19, 2017, 08:41 PM
Aug 2017

...rent-free apartment in Trump tower.

I'm so grossed out right now.

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