Hicks was a teenage model,appearing in Greenwich magazine in 2002.[7] She 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.[7] She was the cover model for The It Girl (2005),the first novel in the series by Cecily von Ziegesar.[20]
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.[14][21][22] She then attended Southern Methodist University,where she majored in English and played on a club lacrosse program she helped start. She graduated in 2010.[7][14][23]
In August 2014,Hicks joined the Trump Organization full time.[16] She worked for Ivanka Trump inside Trump Tower,helping expand her fashion label (the Ivanka Trump Collection) and modeling for her online store.[25] In October 2014,she began working directly for Donald Trump.[26]
Trump 2016 presidential campaign
In January 2015,Donald Trump chose Hicks,who was 26 at the time,for the role of press secretary for his potential presidential campaign.[27] Trump summoned her to his office and,as she tells it,"Mr. Trump looked at me and said,'I'm thinking about running for president,and you're going to be my press secretary.'"[25] Until that time,she had never worked in politics or volunteered on a campaign.[28] After Trump's first primary victories,Hicks was asked to choose between staying with the Trump Organization or working on the campaign full time. She initially decided to leave the campaign,but Trump convinced her to remain and she stayed on as press secretary.[14]
During the campaign,she played the role of gatekeeper to press members who wanted to speak with Trump,handling over 250 requests a day and deciding which reporters would be allowed to speak with him.[13][28] Hicks also 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.[25][29] When in New York City,she would spend most of her day in Trump's office,handling inquiries from the press and taking dictation from him to tweet.[27] In January 2017,Hicks was included on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list,having "served as a one-woman press team" for Trump's presidential campaign.[30]
On August 16,2017,she was appointed as the interim White House communications director (the last director having been Anthony Scaramucci). Politico labeled her the "Untouchable Hope Hicks," as she was considered one of the few White House officials whose job was safe,and one of only two White House communications officials Scaramucci had announced were definitely staying when he was first hired.[31] She was appointed permanent White House communications director on September 12,2017.[32]
On February 27,2018,Hicks gave nine hours of closed-door testimony to the House Intelligence Committee. She 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.[33] The next day the White House confirmed to The New York Times that Hicks planned to resign.[34] According to "multiple sources," she had been planning to resign for months,and her announcement was unrelated to the events of the preceding 24 hours.[35] She officially resigned on March 29,2018.[36]
On March 4,2019,the House Judiciary Committee sent a letter to Hicks requesting information regarding alleged obstruction of justice by the current administration.[38] (She was mentioned over 180 times in Robert Mueller's report on Russian election interference and possible obstruction of justice;the report was released on April 18,2019.)[39] The Committee subpoenaed documents and her testimony on May 21,2019.[40] On June 4,2019,the Trump White House invoked executive privilege,directing Hicks not to provide any documents related to her employment in the Trump administration.[41] She agreed to testify in a closed-door session on June 19,2019,[42] during which lawyers for the Trump administration forbade Hicks from answering questions 155 times,claiming that due to "absolute immunity," Hicks "may not speak about anything that occurred during the time of her employment in the White House as a close adviser to the president."[43][44] Hicks testified on the scheduled date,and also complied with the White House request to not answer questions.[45][46][47][48]
On July 18,2019,unredacted search warrant documents from the Michael Cohen criminal case were released,and it appeared a strong possibility that Hicks had known about hush payments made by Michael Cohen on behalf of Donald Trump before the dates she had previously claimed.[49]
Counselor to the president
Hicks as an aide to Jared Kushner with White House deputy chief of staff Dan Scavino and House minority leader Kevin McCarthy during the 2020 presidential campaign
In February 2020,it was announced that Hicks would return to the White House Office as an aide to Jared Kushner and counselor to President Donald Trump.[4] She officially assumed her roles at the White House on March 9.[50]
On June 1,2020,during the George Floyd protests in Washington,Hicks and others suggested that Trump walk to St. John's Episcopal Church go across the street from the White House to make a public appearance. Law enforcement subsequently used tear gas and other riot control tactics to forcefully clear peaceful protesters from Lafayette Square and surrounding streets,creating a path for President Donald Trump and senior administration officials,including Hicks,to the church.[51] It was later reported Hicks had suggested Trump say a prayer at this appearance,but he held up a Bible instead.[52]
On October 1,2020,it was announced that Hicks had tested positive for COVID-19.[53][54] Because of her positive test and her recent travels with the president,President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump were also tested. Hours later,Trump announced that both he and Melania had tested positive and would immediately go into quarantine at the White House.[55][56][57]
The New York Times reported in June 2022 that,in the weeks after the 2020 election Trump insisted had been stolen from him,some of his aides quietly disagreed with him. Hicks advised Trump to move on,leading him to say,"Well,Hope doesn’t believe in me," to which she replied,"No,I don’t. Nobody’s convinced me otherwise." She disappeared from public view in the final weeks of Trump's presidency.[58]
Post-White House
On October 25,2022,Hicks sat for a "transcribed interview" with the United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack.[59][60] Part of the interview,which was videotaped,was televised during the committee's December 19,2022,public hearing. It featured Hicks stating that during a conversation about his legacy,Trump told her "something along the lines of 'nobody will care about my legacy if I lose ... the only thing that matters is winning.'"[61][62]
In August 2025,Hicks was appointed chief operating officer (COO) of Devil May Care Media,the media company founded by Megyn Kelly,where she is responsible for business development,operations,and expansion of the company’s podcast and digital content network.[67][68]
↑ Viser, Matt (November 10, 2016). "Hope Hicks Is Everything Her Boss Donald Trump Is Not". Town & Country. New York City. Archived from the original on November 24, 2016. Retrieved November 23, 2016. At age 11 she and her older sister were hired to model for Ralph Lauren. Soon she was in the pages of national magazines and had a cameo on the soap opera Guiding Light. She became the face of the Hourglass Adventures, a series of novels for preteen girls featuring a 10-year-old who travels back in time.
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