Hope Hicks formerly worked for Ivanka Trump and in 2015 joined Donald Trump’s presidential campaign as its press secretary, becoming one of his closest aides. She followed him into the White House, at one point serving as the White House communications director before she left the administration in 2018. She began a role as chief communications officer for the Fox corporation in 2019. In 2020, she reportedly re-joined the Trump White House as a senior aide.