Hope Hicks to serve as interim White House communications director

Longtime aide to President Donald Trump Hope Hicks will take over the role as interim director of communications while the West Wing looks for someone to fill the position permanently.

News of Hicks's appointment comes just over two weeks after the firing of Anthony Scaramucci, who spent a mere 10 days as Trump's communications director. “Hope Hicks will work with White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders and all of the communications team and serve as the Interim White House Communications Director. We will make an announcement on a permanent communications director at the appropriate time,” a White House official said. Hicks, the president's director of strategic communications, worked for the Trump Organization before the president entered the 2016 Republican primary, and she served as a spokesperson during the presidential campaign. Scaramucci, a former hedge fund manager, was pushed out on July 31, the same day then-Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly took over as White House chief of staff.