31 Facts About Hope Hicks

Hope Charlotte Hicks was born on October 21,1988 and is an American public relations executive and political advisor who served in President Donald Trump's administration from 2017 to 2018 and 2020 to 2021.

Hope Hicks served as White House director of strategic communications from January to September 2017, as White House communications director from 2017 to 2018, and returned to serve as a counselor to the president from 2020 to 2021.

When Hope Hicks resigned from the Administration in March 2018, she was Trump's longest-serving political aide.

Hope Hicks returned to the White House as counselor to President Trump in March 2020 before departing for the final time on January 13,2021.

Hope Hicks's father was Regional CEO, Americas, of Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide, and executive vice president of communications for the National Football League from 2010 to 2015, before becoming managing director of the Glover Park Group.

Hope Hicks was a teenage model, appearing in Greenwich magazine in 2002.

Hope Hicks then posed for a Ralph Lauren campaign with her older sister Mary Grace, and was the face of the Hourglass Adventures novels about a time-traveling 10-year-old.

Hope Hicks was the cover model for The It Girl, the first novel in the series by Cecily von Ziegesar.

Hope Hicks attended Greenwich High School, a part of the public Greenwich school system, where she was co-captain of the lacrosse team and graduated in 2006.

Hope Hicks then attended Southern Methodist University, where she majored in English and played on a club lacrosse program she helped start.

Hope Hicks began in public relations with the New York City firm Zeno Group.

Hope Hicks joined public relations firm Hiltzik Strategies in 2012, after meeting the firm's founder at a Super Bowl event, and worked there for Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka Trump, on her fashion line, and then on other Trump ventures.

Hope Hicks worked for Ivanka Trump inside Trump Tower, helping expand her fashion label and modeling for her online store.

In January 2015, Donald Trump chose Hope Hicks, who was 26 at the time, for the role of press secretary for his potential presidential campaign.

Hope Hicks initially decided to leave the campaign, but Trump convinced her to remain and she stayed on as press secretary.

Hope Hicks took dictation from Trump for his tweets, and then sent the text to another person in the Trump organization who sent the tweets from Trump's official account.

In January 2017, Hope Hicks was included on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list, having "served as a one-woman press team" for Trump's presidential campaign.

On December 22,2016, it was announced that Hope Hicks would become part of the Trump administration, in the newly created position of the White House director of strategic communications.

Hope Hicks was appointed permanent White House communications director on September 12,2017.

On February 27,2018, Hope Hicks gave nine hours of closed-door testimony to the House Intelligence Committee.

Hope Hicks acknowledged that she sometimes had to tell "white lies" in her work as communications director, but refused to answer any questions about her tenure in the White House.

The next day the White House confirmed to The New York Times that Hope Hicks planned to resign.

Between March 2018 and March 2020, Hope Hicks was Fox Corporation's chief communications officer and executive vice president.

On March 4,2019, the House Judiciary Committee sent a letter to Hope Hicks requesting information regarding alleged obstruction of justice by the current administration.

On July 18,2019, unredacted search warrant documents from the Michael Cohen criminal case were released, and it appeared a strong possibility that Hope Hicks had known about hush payments made by Michael Cohen on behalf of Donald Trump before the dates she had previously claimed.

On October 1,2020, it was announced that Hope Hicks had tested positive for COVID-19.

On October 25,2022, Hope Hicks sat for a "transcribed interview" with the United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack.

Hope Hicks provided some detail on Trump's relationship with former American Media Inc head David Pecker during the 2016 Republican Party presidential primaries and on how Trump wanted his alleged affairs with Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal covered up to avoid embarrassment against him and his family in the wake of the Access Hollywood tape release.

In November, Hope Hicks stated her intention of voting for Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election.

Hope Hicks was dating Rob Porter, White House staff secretary for Trump, at the time of Porter's 2018 resignation.

In May 2024, Hope Hicks got engaged to Jim Donovan, a Goldman Sachs investment banker.