Trump taps Melania Trump's spokeswoman as next White House press secretary

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Source: CNN



(CNN) Melania Trump's spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham will get a major new role as both White House press secretary and communications director, the first lady tweeted Tuesday. "I am pleased to announce @StephGrisham45 will be the next @PressSec & Comms Director! She has been with us since 2015 - @POTUS & I can think of no better person to serve the Administration & our country. Excited to have Stephanie working for both sides of the @WhiteHouse. #BeBest" Melania Trump tweeted.

President Donald Trump didn't look far for his next press secretary in Grisham, who for the past two years has been the communications director for the first lady. Grisham will keep her current job too.

However, Trump has tweaked the job duties before handing the reins to Grisham, whose purview will include a larger scope of responsibility than that of her predecessor Sarah Sanders, and one as yet unprecedented in this administration. Trump has appointed Grisham both White House director of communications as well as press secretary, a senior White House official tells CNN. Grisham will be assuming the roles formerly held by Bill Shine, who departed as White House communications director in March, and Sanders, who has said her last day will be this Friday.

Additionally, Grisham will remain in charge of communications for the East Wing in addition to her new West Wing responsibilities, staying on as the spokeswoman for the first lady, says the official.

Read more: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/06/25/politics/stephanie-grisham-press-secretary/

[hlthe2b]

1. Well, she's had to learn to lie like a champ for Melania the sociopath, so why not move up to do so

for the Malignant Narcissist in Chief.

[BumRushDaShow]

4. I miss this one

[lapfog_1]

2. will she be in charge of the twitter account?

[True Dough]

3. No doubt

Trump will attempt to "tap" her alright. Such a slime ball.

[Traildogbob]

5. Enough

Let's stop calling her First Lady. Absolutely nothing lady like about it. And so far from first for trump, or last. Ho Ho Ho! Talk about Nasty Women. Wow! 😷

[TheCowsCameHome]

6. Huh?

[BKDem]

7. Let's hope she doesn't hold any press conferences. n/t

[underpants]

8. Be Best Stephanie

[Scurrilous]

9. "...who for the past two years has been the communications director for the first lady."

Since when does Melania communicate?

[BumRushDaShow]

11. It depends on what she is wearing that day

[Scurrilous]

12. Hahahaha...

[Odoreida]

10. Sure why not? Just another disposable flack. n/t

[LiberalLovinLug]

13. I hope the Whitehouse press has learned a thing or two

And they go all in with hard questions, and calling her out on her inevitable lies. No honeymoon for her. She has sold her soul to the devil long ago. I can't understand how any woman would gladly be the "face" and "mouth" of such a despicable admitted sexual abuser like that.

edit: In fact I'd like the first question from a reporter to be just that. "You are accepting this job, so do you, as a woman then accept that your boss's claim that he can go up to any woman and grab her by the pussy because he's such a big star, is all just "locker room talk" and is acceptable?

I'd love it if they rattled her right off the bat. But they never will, I know.

[Achilleaze]

14. Is she going to be yet another republican liar?

The odds are strong that she will lie. If she's hung with the Dirty Donny* KGOP Klan this long, she cannot pretend to be ignorant of the moral cesspool in which she swims.

She's been arrested for drunken driving twice. So we know she has a pattern of numbing her guilty republican conscience with repeatedly stupid DUI sloshery.

* aka republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief

[LiberalLovinLug]

16. Yes of course

And as a follow up to my previous post, another first question could be..."Your predecessor verifiabely lied x number of times, is it your intention to continue this pattern?" I'd love to hear her response.

[riversedge]

15. Sarah had someone else she talked up as replacement...........

Sarah probably is having a sad.

Sanders' pick
A source close to the White House who is familiar with discussions regarding Trump's selection of Grisham as press secretary says Sanders was talking up deputy White House press secretary Hogan Gidley as her replacement and talking down the idea of Grisham as late as her going away party Monday night with White House reporters. Another White House official also confirmed Grisham was pushing Gidley.
But this source said Grisham was Trump's clear choice from the beginning. Trump wanted somebody from his inner circle, according to the source. Gidley was never seriously considered by Trump, the source said despite Sanders' attempts to pick her own successor.
Trump "is going with the team he trusts," the source said.


Grisham was at Camp David this weekend with Trump, two people familiar with the matter said.

She didn't depart with the President on Saturday morning but joined the small group of aides — which included Dan Scavino and later acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney — later in the day at the mountainside retreat.
Grisham met with Sanders at the White House on Tuesday afternoon following the announcement of her promotion. Several reporters were gathered outside Sanders' office door, to which Sanders told Grisham to "get used to it."


One of the earliest members of Trump's team
Grisham has been with team Trump longer than anyone currently in the White House, with the exception of Scavino, both of whom started on the Trump campaign in 2015..............................

[BumRushDaShow]

18. Interesting backstory

and they are running out of "inner circle" folks now!

[dalton99a]

17. What she did in Arizona:

Link to tweet

[Talitha]

19. Will there be a 'Passing of the Pearls' ceremony?

[rurallib]

20. Wonder if they will release her "lies per second" speed

It will be hard to top the 1 gig of LPS that Sanders could deliver. Yet I am sure that is the speed she will need to maintain to keep up with the current administration's requirements.

God speed, Stephanie Grisham. And remember the truth is your mortal enemy as is the free press!

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

21. Another day another sociopath.... nt