Trump is reportedly asking Hope Hicks who should replace her

Hope Hicks
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The resignation of Hope Hicks leaves President Trump without his longtime confidante and — yet again — without a White House communications director. To fill the latter role, Trump is turning to Hicks herself for advice, Politico reported Friday night.

Hicks is the fourth person to officially serve as communications director in the Trump administration. She was preceded by Jason Miller, Michael Dubke, and Anthony Scaramucci, and former Press Secretary Sean Spicer also twice pulled double duty by working as acting communications director.

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.