{"id":350268,"date":"2018-03-01T03:39:10","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T02:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/hope-hicks-trumps-communications-director-to-resign\/"},"modified":"2018-03-01T03:39:10","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T02:39:10","slug":"hope-hicks-trumps-communications-director-to-resign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/hope-hicks-trumps-communications-director-to-resign\/","title":{"rendered":"Hope Hicks, Trump\u2019s Communications Director, to Resign"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>Hope Hicks, White House communications director, said Wednesday she is resigning, marking the departure of a presidential confidante and longtime lieutenant from the West Wing.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Hicks has been one of President Donald Trump\u2019s longest-serving aides, handling most of the communications responsibilities for his 2016 election campaign before joining him as director of strategic communications. In September, she was tapped to serve as communications director, becoming the fourth person to hold that role in the administration\u2019s first year. Over Mr. Trump\u2019s first 13 months in office, she has become his closest aide who isn\u2019t a member of the family, according to several officials.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Hicks, 29 years old, told the president in recent weeks that she wanted to leave the White House to explore outside opportunities, according to a White House official. Ms. Hicks informed the president Wednesday that she planned to resign. She doesn\u2019t yet have a departure date, but is expected to leave in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are no words to adequately express my gratitude to President Trump,\u201d Ms. Hicks said in a statement. \u201cI wish the President and his administration the very best as he continues to lead our country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Mr. Trump called Ms. Hicks \u201coutstanding\u201d and \u201cas smart and thoughtful as they come.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will miss having her by my side but when she approached me about pursuing other opportunities, I totally understood,\u201d Mr. Trump said. \u201cI am&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/hope-hicks-trumps-communications-director-to-resign\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hope Hicks, White House communications director, said Wednesday she is resigning, marking the departure of a presidential confidante and longtime lieutenant from the West Wing. Ms. Hicks has been one of President Donald Trump\u2019s longest-serving aides, handling most of the communications responsibilities for his 2016 election campaign before joining him as director of strategic communications. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-350268","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}