In the United States,Patriot Day occurs on September 11 of each year in memory of the people killed in the September 11 terrorist attacks in 2001.
The White House communications director or White House director of communications,also known officially as Assistant to the President for Communications,is part of the senior staff of the president of the United States. The officeholder is responsible for developing and promoting the agenda of the president and leading its media campaign.
James Ferguson "Jay" Carney is an American public relations officer,political advisor,and journalist who served as the United States' White House Press Secretary from 2011 to 2014,and Amazon's Senior Vice President of Global Corporate Affairs from 2015 to 2022.
John Hogan Gidley is an American political aide who served as White House Deputy Press Secretary from 2019 to 2020 in the Donald Trump administration. In July 2020,Gidley became the press secretary of Trump's reelection campaign.
Matthew N. Latimer is an American attorney,businessman,and former political speechwriter. Latimer is a founding partner of Javelin,a literary and creative agency located in Alexandria,Virginia that offers representation,digital,and public relations services. He also served in a variety of appointments during George W. Bush Administration.
The National Space Council is a body within the Executive Office of the President of the United States created in 1989 during the George H. W. Bush administration,disbanded in 1993,and reestablished in June 2017 by the Donald Trump administration. It is a modified version of the earlier National Aeronautics and Space Council (1958–1973).
Senior Advisor to the President is a title used by high-ranking political advisors to the president of the United States. White House senior advisors are senior members of the White House Office. The title has been formally used since 1993.
Joshua Ryan Henry Earnest is an American political advisor who served as White House press secretary under President Barack Obama from 2014 to 2017. He was Obama's third Press Secretary and the 29th to hold the position. He succeeded Jay Carney as Obama's press secretary,in 2014,and was succeeded by President Donald Trump's first presidential press secretary,Sean Spicer. He is Senior Vice President and Chief Communications Officer for United Airlines.
Hope Charlotte Hicks 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. She 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.
David A. Fahrenthold is an American journalist who writes for The New York Times. Previously he wrote for The Washington Post. He has also served as a political analyst for NBC News and MSNBC. In 2017,he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for his coverage of Donald Trump and his alleged charitable givings,including the 2016 United States presidential election.
Sean Michael Spicer is a former American political aide who served as the 30th White House Press Secretary and as White House Communications Director under President Donald Trump in 2017. Spicer was communications director of the Republican National Committee from 2011 to 2017,and its chief strategist from 2015 to 2017.
Madeleine Elise Westerhout is the former Director of Oval Office Operations at the White House from February to August 2019. Prior to that,from 2017 to 2019,she served as the Personal Secretary to U.S. President Donald Trump. She was fired on August 29,2019,after Trump learned she had shared details of the Trump family and Oval Office operations with reporters during an off the record dinner earlier that month.
Sarah Elizabeth Huckabee Sanders is an American politician serving since 2023 as the 47th governor of Arkansas. Sanders is the daughter of Mike Huckabee,who served from 1996 to 2007 as Arkansas's 44th governor. A member of the Republican Party,she was the 31st White House press secretary,serving under President Donald Trump from 2017 to 2019. Sanders was the third woman to be White House press secretary. She also served as a senior advisor on Trump's 2016 presidential campaign. Sanders became the Republican nominee in the 2022 Arkansas gubernatorial election and won,defeating Democratic nominee Chris Jones.
Raj Shah is an American political aide who served as the White House Deputy Press Secretary and Deputy Assistant to the President from 2017 to 2019. Before joining the Trump administration,Shah was in charge of opposition research at the Republican National Committee. He is currently deputy chief of staff for communications for House Speaker Mike Johnson.
Tony Sayegh served as a White House Senior Advisor for Strategy until February 2020,and is a former Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs for the U.S. Department of the Treasury,serving from March 6,2017,to June 2019. He led the department's Office of Public Affairs. During the passage of the Tax Cuts And Jobs Act,Sayegh was detailed to the White House Office of Communications appearing numerous times in the media to promote the passage of comprehensive tax reform. Sayegh was a Republican strategist and contributor for the Fox News Channel prior to joining the administration,and served as Executive Vice President at Jamestown Associates from 2013 to 2017.
Alyssa Farah Griffin is an American political strategist and television personality. She was the White House Director of Strategic Communications and Assistant to the President in 2020 during the presidency of Donald Trump. She is a co-host of the daytime talk show The View and also appears on CNN as a political commentator.
The core White House staff appointments,and most Executive Office of the President officials generally,are not required to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate,with a handful of exceptions. There are about 4,000 positions in the Executive Office of the President.
Robert Stuart Gilchrist is an American diplomat who has served as the principal deputy assistant secretary of state for democracy,human rights,and labor since September 2023. He served as the United States ambassador to Lithuania from February 2020 to August 2023. He is a career Foreign Service Officer with the rank of minister counselor. He was appointed by President Donald Trump and confirmed by the United States Senate on December 20,2019. Gilchrist was the fifth US ambassador from the LGBT community nominated to serve by the Trump administration.
Steven Cheung is an American political advisor who is Donald Trump's campaign spokesman in the 2023–24 Republican primary and served in the Donald J. Trump administration. He previously worked in Trump’s 2016 and 2020 campaigns. He also worked in communications for the sports organization Ultimate Fighting Championship based in Las Vegas,Nevada.
