Hicks ‘like a daughter’ to the president

Hope Hicks, who tested positive for the virus a day before the president, has been a rare consistent presence in the Trump White House, which has otherwise been a revolving door of presidential aides.

The 31- year- old f ormer model was one of the first people to join Donald Trump’s fledgling presidential campaign and one of few that remains close to him to this day.

On Thursday night news broke that Hicks had tested positive for the virus. Hicks travelled with the president on Air Force One on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Connecticut- born Hicks first charmed his eldest daughter, Ivanka, while working for a public relations agency in New York that represented one of her fashion companies.

Trump later chose her in 2014 to work in PR for his real estate company. The president later told GQ magazine that he thought Hicks, who he likes to call “Hopester,” was “outstanding.”

After Trump’s victory she became director of stra

(he said he would) miss having her by his side.

tegic communications in the White House. There, she had the trust of the president while keeping clear of the public spotlight and infighting among other presidential aides.

According to Michael Wolff ’s book Fire and Fury, the president once referred to Hicks as “the best piece of tail,” while insiders said she was like a surrogate daughter to the president.

The fact she does not give TV interviews and keeps away from the cameras is the recipe for her s uccess, s ay i nsiders, pointing out those close to Trump who have courted the media have come to stickier endings. After the departure of Anthony Scaramucci, her high- profile predecessor, she became the communications director in 2017.

In February 2018, she announced she was resigning, the day after she admitted occasionally telling “white lies” for the president. She then took up a job as chief communications officer at Fox News, Trump’s preferred news channel.

Trump, who does not usually handle abandonment well, said at the time he would “miss having her by his side.”

Earlier this year she returned to the White House as counsellor to the president, and now reports to Trump’s son- in- law, Jared Kushner.