Her nomination as the guardian and defender of the administration’s rhetoric, however, has alarmed LGBTQ groups, who were quick to point out a well documented long history of racist, homophobic and anti-transgender remarks. He earned a master's degree from the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. Some have questioned whether McEnany should be given a podium to mislead, dissemble, make false claims, and say things she knows are at variance with the truth. Several other key aides serve as spokespeople for the president. His father, Michael W. Spicer, died in December 2016. Spicer's mother told the Providence Journal newspaper in Rhode Island that her son was hooked on politics at a young age. In 2017, she took over as the Republican National Committee’s lead spokesperson. Trump reportedly was unhappy to lose her to the first lady when she moved to the East Wing. "The default narrative is always negative. Political author and pundit Kayleigh McEnany was named the nation’s 31st and President Trump’s fourth White House press secretary on April 7, 2020. Sanders and her husband left when asked, but when an employee of the restaurant tweeted about the incident, Sanders responded publicly. “This could be utilized by some men, for instance, to go into female bathrooms, it’s happened at Target, which does have the same policy in place. It's a good question. In her new role, McEnany replaced Stephanie Grisham, who remained in the Trump administration as … Instead they defended their bosses in thoughtful, if sometimes pointed, discussions of specific policies and the broader question of the proper role of government. She also was among the few administration officials who fought for reporters to have access to high-profile events on the president’s overseas trips, once getting into a physical fight with officials in North Korea when they tried to block access to the American news media while Mr. Trump was on a trip to Asia.But she clashed with Mr. Meadows, who targeted her as someone he wanted to replace, citing concerns voiced by others in the White House, according to administration officialsIt is the first of several planned shake-ups that Mr. Meadows, who has officially been in his job for only a little over a week, plans on making.Other changes have included the office of legislative affairs, where a deputy was recently asked to leave and where more changes are said to be likely. Spicer graduated from Portsmouth Abbey School and Connecticut College in 1993 with a bachelor's degree in government. Soon after her graduation from Harvard Law School in 2016, she was contributing on CNN.By summer of the next year, she was named Republican National Committee spokeswoman, and joined the Trump campaign as national press secretary in 2019. In June 2020, McEnany defended Trump’s decision to forcibly remove people peacefully protesting the police killing of George Floyd from the street in front of St. John's Episcopal Church, near the White House so that he could stage a photo op holding a Bible while referring to himself as the “law-and-order president.” In her press conference, she likened Trump’s walk to the church through lingering clouds of tear gas to Winston Churchill’s defiant walks through the bomb-damaged streets of London during World War II. I like people who weren’t captured.” Think for a moment of some of the men and women who preceded McEnany: Pierre Salinger, Bill Moyers, Jim Brady, Marlin Fitzwater, Dee Dee Myers, Mike McCurry, and Joe Lockhart, among many others.
All of a sudden he was hooked," she said. They have one daughter, Blake, born in November 2019. The Trump campaign has named Hogan Gidley as its new press secretary, replacing Kayleigh McEnany, who became the White House press secretary in … Grisham was married to Dan Marries, a Tucson, Ariz., news anchor, with whom she has two children. “Never mind, forgot he’s still in that hut in Kenya," adding the hashtag #ObamaTVShows.