Hope Hicks earns as much as White House chief strategist Steve Bannon. Photo / Getty Images
Hope Hicks earns as much as White House chief strategist Steve Bannon. Photo / Getty Images
US President Donald Trump has reportedly offered the White House communications director role to one of his youngest staffers.
Hope Hicks, 28, is a long-time Trump aide who was a teen model brought into the Trump organisation in August 2014 by Ivanka Trump.
Hicks will become the youngest person tohold the position, left vacant after Trump's last pick, Anthony Scaramucci was fired just 10 days after he was hired.
The New York Times says Hicks will hold the position in an interim capacity.
Hicks was Trump's press secretary during the election campaign and has been working in the White House as director of strategic communications.
She reportedly already commands the highest White House salary of US$179,700 ($245,960), equal to that of chief strategist Steve Bannon and what former chief of staff Reince Priebus was being paid.
The former Ralph Lauren and Bloomingdale's model also dabbled in acting and read for a part alongside Alec Baldwin.
Interestingly enough it was Baldwin, who plays Trump on Saturday Night Live, much to the president's chagrin, who set her up with an interview at PR agency Hiltzik Strategies.
It was there that she got a job on Ivanka Trump's fashion line and was brought into the Trump fold.
In a February 2016 New York Times piece, Trump said she was invaluable.
"She's got very good judgment. She will often give advice, and she'll do it in a very low-key manner, so it doesn't necessarily come in the form of advice. But it's delivered very nicely," he said.
At the age of 13, Hicks was interviewed for a profile piece in which she seemed to predict her future.
"If the acting thing doesn't work out, I could really see myself in politics. Who knows?" she said.
Sean Spicer was the first to fill the role of communications director for Trump, before Mike Dubke was brought on in March. Spicer took over again when Dubke left in June.
Scaramucci was announced as the new communications director on July 21, but was fired soon afterwards when he gave a foul-mouthed interview to the New Yorker.
