lew the hate begin Hope Hicks Resigns

[bostonangler]

Hope Hicks, the White House communications director and one of President Trump’s longest-serving advisers, said Wednesday that she plans to leave the White House in the coming weeks.

Ms. Hicks, 29, a former model who joined Mr. Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign without any experience in politics, became known as one of the few aides who understood his personality and style and could challenge the president to change his views.

Ms. Hicks had been considering leaving for several months. She told colleagues that she had accomplished what she felt she could with a job that made her one of the most powerful people in Washington, and that there would never be a perfect moment to leave, according to White House aides.

Her resignation came a day after she testified for eight hours before the House Intelligence Committee, telling the panel that in her job, she had occasionally been required to tell white lies but had never lied about anything connected to the investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election.

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Multiple White House aides said that Ms. Hicks’s departure was unrelated to her appearance before the committee. They said that she had told a small group of people in the days before the session that she had planned to leave her job.

She did not say what her next job would be, and her departure date was unclear, but it is likely to be in the next few weeks.

Ms. Hicks said that she had “no words” to express her gratitude to the president, who responded with his own statement.

“Hope is outstanding and has done great work for the last three years,” Mr. Trump said. “She is as smart and thoughtful as they come, a truly great person. I will miss having her by my side, but when she approached me about pursuing other opportunities, I totally understood. I am sure we will work together again in the future.”

 

As communications director, Ms. Hicks worked to stabilize, to some extent, a fractious press department of about 40 people who were often at odds with one another in 2017. She maintained one of the lowest public profiles of anyone to ever hold the job, declining to sit for interviews or appear at the White House briefing room podium. That mystique added to the outsize attention she received.

“I quickly realized what so many have learned about Hope: She is strategic, poised and wise beyond her years,” said John F. Kelly, the White House chief of staff. “She became a trusted adviser and counselor, and did a tremendous job overseeing the communications for the president’s agenda including the passage of historic tax reform. She has served her country with great distinction. To say that she will be missed is an understatement.”

[umbertino]

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/feb/27/hope-hicks-trump-russia-house-committee

[MyLadiesDaddy]

BREAKING: Senior Trump Aide Hope Hicks RESIGNS as White House Communications Director

https://www.hannity.com/media-room/breaking-senior-trump-aide-hope-hicks-resigns-as-white-house-communications-director/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

    

 

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Hope Hicks resigns as White House communications director.

White House Communications Director Hope Hicks announced her resignation Wednesday afternoon, ending the 29-year old’s tenure as one of President Trump’s longest-serving staffers.

 

According to the New York Times, Hicks -who joined President Trump’s campaign in 2016- has considered leaving the post for months, telling colleagues “she had accomplished what she felt she could with a job that made her one of the most powerful people in Washington, and that there would never be a perfect moment to leave.”

The news comes less than 24 hours after she was questioned on Capitol Hill by the House Intelligence Committee over their investigation into allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential race.

“Hope is outstanding and has done great work for the last three years,” said a statement from President Trump.

 

“She is as smart and thoughtful as they come, a truly great person,” he added. “I will miss having her by my side but when she approached me about pursuing other opportunities, I totally understood. I am sure we will work together again in the future.”

“She became a trusted adviser and counselor and did a tremendous job overseeing the communications for the president’s agenda including the passage of historic tax reform,” added White House Chief of Staff John Kelly. “She has served her country with great distinction. To say that she will be missed, is an understatement.”

[gregp]

Sad to see her go. 

[Shabibilicious]

 

GO RV, then BV  

[Shabibilicious]

btw....there's another Hope Hicks Resigns thread that was posted 14 hours ago.  

 

GO RV, then BV

[bostonangler]

I'm not sure who labeled this as Guardian News, but that is incorrect... Please do not add labels to my posts, we wouldn't want to add to the problem of Fake News... Thank you.

 

B/A

[Shabibilicious]

9 minutes ago, bostonangler said:

I'm not sure who labeled this as Guardian News, but that is incorrect... Please do not add labels to my posts, we wouldn't want to add to the problem of Fake News... Thank you.

 

B/A

 

Hmmm.....thread manipulation, interesting.  Ask a mod for assistance, B/A.

 

GO RV, then  BV

[bostonangler]

Just now, Shabibilicious said:

 

Hmmm.....thread manipulation, interesting.  Ask a mod for assistance, B/A.

 

GO RV, then  BV

 

I think there is a new mod. Some people cannot handle power...

 

B/A

[MyLadiesDaddy]

30 minutes ago, Shabibilicious said:

btw....there's another Hope Hicks Resigns thread that was posted 14 hours ago.  

 

GO RV, then BV

Yeah I didn't catch that one this morning when I posted this on the Run. But not to fear Master mark will be by to fix this very soon I'm sure. and then you and the rest of your leftist could have something else to complain about

[Shabibilicious]

Just now, ladyGrace'sDaddy said:

Yeah I didn't catch that one this morning when I posted this on the Run. But not to fear Master mark will be by to fix this very soon I'm sure. and then you and the rest of your leftist could have something else to complain about

 

Never confuse truth for complaining, my friend.....let it wash over you.   

 

GO RV, then BV 

[MyLadiesDaddy]

6 minutes ago, Shabibilicious said:

 

Never confuse truth for complaining, my friend.....let it wash over you.   

 

GO RV, then BV 

 

[Shabibilicious]

11 minutes ago, ladyGrace'sDaddy said:

 

 

White Lies really do matter.....in fact it cost Hope her job.  And you already acknowledged double posting about her resignation.....so nowhere in this thread have I complained....nothing but truth, bro.    And let's not forget the good Colonel was arrested at the end of that movie for ordering a Code Red which ultimately cost a U.S. Marine his life.....all the while trying to cover it up, conspiratorial style.   

 

GO RV, then BV

Edited March 1, 2018 by Shabibilicious

[MyLadiesDaddy]

OMG 

[MyLadiesDaddy]

1 hour ago, bostonangler said:

 

I think there is a new mod. Some people cannot handle power...

 

B/A

My Moderator abilities only work in the cryptocurrency and ICO section of the site. I do not appreciate being falsely accused by you. I cannot change anything that is posted in this section of Dinar Vets. If you have a question or a problem with being labeled the guardian you take that up with Mark.

[bostonangler]

3 minutes ago, ladyGrace'sDaddy said:

My Moderator abilities only work in the cryptocurrency and VIP ICO discussion" rel="">ICO section of the site. I do not appreciate being falsely accused by you. I cannot change anything that is posted in this section of Dinar Vets. If you have a question or a problem with being labeled the guardian you take that up with Mark.

 

Thank you for your reply... Please don't be angry, there's already too much of that going around...

 

B/A

[coorslite21]

7 hours ago, Shabibilicious said:

 

White Lies really do matter.....in fact it cost Hope her job. 

 

GO RV, then BV

 

Ok.......that's a bold statement.....curious as to how you came to that conclusion?

[bostonangler]

1 hour ago, coorslite21 said:

 

Ok.......that's a bold statement.....curious as to how you came to that conclusion?

 

Do you think she quit because of what she was told during her testimony, or do you think she just decided she could do better than work at The White House for the president? It does appear many are jumping ship.

 

 

B/A

[Shabibilicious]

16 hours ago, coorslite21 said:

 

Ok.......that's a bold statement.....curious as to how you came to that conclusion?

 

Just noticing the same employee turnover pattern since Donald took office.....

 

1) Somebody testifies

2) An embarrassing leak hits the papers

3) Another leak from the WH says Trump is pissed

4) The person in question resigns, citing the pursuit of new career opportunities

5) Trump then publicly says the person was a great asset and will be missed

 

GO RV, then BV

 

 

Edited March 2, 2018 by Shabibilicious

[coorslite21]

15 minutes ago, Shabibilicious said:

 

Just noticing the same employee turnover pattern since Donald took office.....

 

1) Somebody testifies

2) An embarrassing leak hits the papers

3) Another leak from the WH says Trump is pissed

4) The person in question resigns, citing the pursuit of new career opportunities

5) Trump then publicly says the person was a great asset and will be missed

 

GO RV, then BV

 

 

 

There is a difference in noticing a trend, and making a statement on why she lost her job.

 

Hicks has an interesting story.....to start with she's 29......been with Trump for 3 years.......who else is in that category???

 
Trump is hard on his people......look at all those who have come and gone.......let alone all of those he trashes on twitter on a regilar basis....Have you ever head a discouraging word about Hicks......?....other than she may have dated the wrong guy...??

Head of communications, but smart enough to have stayed totally off the radar for 3 years......

 

Making about $180,000 per year.........how much do you think she could make on a book, let alone public appearances.

Seems everyone likes her and respects her work...the recent.round tables and listening sessions were her brainchild......she believed Trump would be good at them despite the risk....she was right....

Hick's problem isn't really her problem.....it's the stereotype that people use for attractive women......they must just be using thier looks to get ahead....they can't really be that smart.....that's just pathetic.........same thing with the First Lady........she speaks 6 languages.......I guess, just another airhead model......???

A bit more copy and pasted from a VOX article...........I don't put any faith in CNN, Fox, NBC, CBS, ABC, NY Times Washington Post.......I just pass those by......to much spin...

 

Doubt she was forced out......no matter what the media may claim.

 

++++++++++

 

When does Hope Hicks get to be a “wunderkind” instead of a “former model”?

The media undermined Hicks with sexist language right up until her last day.

By Laura McGannlaura.mcgann@vox.com  Mar 1, 2018, 10:50am EST

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White House communications director Hope Hicks attends a listening session hosted by President Donald Trump with student survivors of school shootings.  Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Major media wants to make sure you know that departing White House communications director Hope Hicks was a model.

When news broke Wednesday that the influential aide who’s been a fixture in Trumpworld since 2015 plans to step down, the New York Times, Washington Post, and Chicago Tribune scrambled to cover the story and include the important detail about Hicks’s modeling expertise.

 

So did TV outlets like NBC, MSNBC, Fox, BBC, and CNBC.

 

“Hicks was an improbable campaign press secretary and senior White House official,” the Associated Press wrote Wednesday. “A former Ralph Lauren fashion model and public relations pro who worked for Trump’s daughter Ivanka, Hicks had no political background when Trump asked her to serve on his campaign.”

 

None of this coverage mentioned the salient fact that Hicks’s modeling career spanned ages 10 to 16. She landed the Ralph Lauren deal at age 11. By 16 she had quit her part-time modeling job to focus on her true passion, lacrosse. She went on to be the captain of her college club team at Southern Methodist University, where, her college coach told NPR, she never mentioned modeling.

 

But in media coverage, her modeling “career” serves as an important backdrop to her current role, a signal of her inexperience at best. This isn’t the standard in journalism or the standard the same press corps has applied to this White House. In the long line of men who’ve also left the West Wing, no outlet has highlighted their part-time jobs or activities in high school. That wouldn’t be relevant. And it’s not for Hicks either.

 

This isn’t the only example of gendered media coverage of Hicks. Routinely, major media outlets have questioned Hicks’s experience, doubted her contributions to the campaign and inside the White House, and implied her looks are relevant ... to anything. It adds up to another insidious narrative about a woman in power that is familiar to successful women everywhere.

Hope Hicks is pretty

The media can’t just come out and say what they want to say, which is that Hicks fits the bill for what media generally agrees is pretty. She is thin. She is white. Her hair is long. Her eyes are bright. Even the most tone-deaf reporter knows saying any of that is a no-no. It’s an obvious sexist trap that undermines the subject. The tip-off is that only in rare cases do male politicians get a physical description, generally when it is specifically relevant to the story.

But media gets a nice workaround with Hicks. She was a model, a great code word for what they want to say without saying it. Her résumé gives them cover. The added ridiculousness, in this case, is the fact that her most high-profile modeling work was on the cover of a Gossip Girl spinoff young adult book, It Girl … when she was 16.

Hope Hicks appeared on the cover of the young adult novel It Girl as a teenager.  Little Brown

There was also this breakout modeling shot on the cover of the children’s book series The Hourglass. She appeared on several as a girl.

Hope Hicks appeared on covers of the book series The Hourglass.  Amazon

(To be fair, Hicks did once appear on Ivanka Trump’s promotional website, wearing an Ivanka-brand shift. She ran PR for the brand at the time.)

Serious outlets even slide into Hicks’s looks sometimes, usually point to someone else’scoverage, like a lifestyle magazine, and not saying it themselves.

The old saying holds up all across media: Women are seen more than heard. And it’s tough even for newspapers to let it go.

Hope Hicks has no experience

Three years into Hicks’s round-the-clock job as an adviser, confidante, and steady hand inside the Trump campaign and White House, most media still makes sure to note that before all that, she was inexperienced in politics. Even on the day she announced she was leaving, after the longest run of any aide not named Trump, the Washington Post described her as “a political neophyte.”

When does Hicks get to be called a savvy operator who made a brash move to join a campaign that professionals wrote off? After she helped Trump win a vicious Republican primary? After an upset presidential election? After running press through an unprecedented year in the White House?

At what point does she get to become, like so many young men in politics and media before her, “a wunderkind”? Barack Obama’s bright young staffers were described this way. His 27-year-old speechwriter Jon Favreau was given the “wunderkind” moniker.

 

For top men in the White House, the new-guy description fell off long ago or never even existed. Donald Trump, despite no political experience before jumping into the race around the same time as Hicks, is no neophyte. Chief of Staff John Kelly is a domestic policy novice with little apparent interest in the subject, but you wouldn’t know it from his descriptors.

 

Language matters. It signals whom we consider a leader and whom we do not; who is a rising star in her field and who is there to only support or assist. So often, the language we use to describe women undercuts accomplishments. Female doctors are more likely to be slighted, losing their title “doctor” and instead introduced by their first name at professional events more often than their male peers.

 

To make up for diminished credentials, women end up needing more of them to get ahead. Look at what it takes for a woman to get on a technology company board versus a man.

Hope Hicks is nice

Hicks also seems to deal with the old Catch-22 for successful women: If you’re successful, no one likes you. If you’re nice, you aren’t a leader. Men, of course, are treated just the opposite. We like successful men the more successful they become.

Hicks, like so many other women, seems to try to strike a balance between the two. Unfortunately for her, coverage tilts toward her “feminine” personality.

 

Hope Hicks is “unfailingly polite.” She is “deferential.” She is “gracious.” All of this, the media finds, as Brian Stelter at CNN recently put it, “alluring.”

 

Certainly she’s also been described many times as a longtime aide, as a rare Trump confidante who has some power to persuade him. It’s not that every line in every story is a sexist diatribe. If it were, ironically, that might be better. It would be easy to spot and call out. What we see with Hicks is the phenomenon that’s been tracked by behavioral researchers repeatedly, how implicit bias holds women back.

 

One form of this trap falls under the “descriptive stereotype,” which Fast Company explains includes describing women in a professional setting as “caring, warm, deferential, emotional, sensitive, and so on — traits consistently used to describe women for decades. Left alone those traits aren’t bad, of course, but when a woman performs a job traditionally held by men they can become incredibly harmful.”

 

The results are, as one researcher put it, “lethal” for women trying to advance in their careers.

 

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

 

Thanks HH for serving your country.......CL

[Shabibilicious]

5 minutes ago, coorslite21 said:

 

There is a difference in noticing a trend, and making a statement on why she lost her job.

 

Hicks has an interesting story.....to start with she's 29......been with Trump for 3 years.......who else is in that category???

 
Trump is hard on his people......look at all those who have come and gone.......let alone all of those he trashes on twitter on a regilar basis....Have you ever head a discouraging word about Hicks......?....other than she may have dated the wrong guy...??

Head of communications, but smart enough to have stayed totally off the radar for 3 years......

 

Making about $180,000 per year.........how much do you think she could make on a book, let alone public appearances.

Seems everyone likes her and respects her work...the recent.round tables and listening sessions were her brainchild......she believed Trump would be good at them despite the risk....she was right....

Hick's problem isn't really her problem.....it's the stereotype that people use for attractive women......they must just be using thier looks to get ahead....they can't really be that smart.....that's just pathetic.........same thing with the First Lady........she speaks 6 languages.......I guess, just another airhead model......???

A bit more copy and pasted from a VOX article...........I don't put any faith in CNN, Fox, NBC, CBS, ABC, NY Times Washington Post.......I just pass those by......to much spin...

 

Doubt she was forced out......no matter what the media may claim.

 

++++++++++

 

When does Hope Hicks get to be a “wunderkind” instead of a “former model”?

The media undermined Hicks with sexist language right up until her last day.

By Laura McGannlaura.mcgann@vox.com  Mar 1, 2018, 10:50am EST

SHARE

 

White House communications director Hope Hicks attends a listening session hosted by President Donald Trump with student survivors of school shootings.  Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Major media wants to make sure you know that departing White House communications director Hope Hicks was a model.

When news broke Wednesday that the influential aide who’s been a fixture in Trumpworld since 2015 plans to step down, the New York Times, Washington Post, and Chicago Tribune scrambled to cover the story and include the important detail about Hicks’s modeling expertise.

 

So did TV outlets like NBC, MSNBC, Fox, BBC, and CNBC.

 

“Hicks was an improbable campaign press secretary and senior White House official,” the Associated Press wrote Wednesday. “A former Ralph Lauren fashion model and public relations pro who worked for Trump’s daughter Ivanka, Hicks had no political background when Trump asked her to serve on his campaign.”

 

None of this coverage mentioned the salient fact that Hicks’s modeling career spanned ages 10 to 16. She landed the Ralph Lauren deal at age 11. By 16 she had quit her part-time modeling job to focus on her true passion, lacrosse. She went on to be the captain of her college club team at Southern Methodist University, where, her college coach told NPR, she never mentioned modeling.

 

But in media coverage, her modeling “career” serves as an important backdrop to her current role, a signal of her inexperience at best. This isn’t the standard in journalism or the standard the same press corps has applied to this White House. In the long line of men who’ve also left the West Wing, no outlet has highlighted their part-time jobs or activities in high school. That wouldn’t be relevant. And it’s not for Hicks either.

 

This isn’t the only example of gendered media coverage of Hicks. Routinely, major media outlets have questioned Hicks’s experience, doubted her contributions to the campaign and inside the White House, and implied her looks are relevant ... to anything. It adds up to another insidious narrative about a woman in power that is familiar to successful women everywhere.

Hope Hicks is pretty

The media can’t just come out and say what they want to say, which is that Hicks fits the bill for what media generally agrees is pretty. She is thin. She is white. Her hair is long. Her eyes are bright. Even the most tone-deaf reporter knows saying any of that is a no-no. It’s an obvious sexist trap that undermines the subject. The tip-off is that only in rare cases do male politicians get a physical description, generally when it is specifically relevant to the story.

But media gets a nice workaround with Hicks. She was a model, a great code word for what they want to say without saying it. Her résumé gives them cover. The added ridiculousness, in this case, is the fact that her most high-profile modeling work was on the cover of a Gossip Girl spinoff young adult book, It Girl … when she was 16.

Hope Hicks appeared on the cover of the young adult novel It Girl as a teenager.  Little Brown

There was also this breakout modeling shot on the cover of the children’s book series The Hourglass. She appeared on several as a girl.

Hope Hicks appeared on covers of the book series The Hourglass.  Amazon

(To be fair, Hicks did once appear on Ivanka Trump’s promotional website, wearing an Ivanka-brand shift. She ran PR for the brand at the time.)

Serious outlets even slide into Hicks’s looks sometimes, usually point to someone else’scoverage, like a lifestyle magazine, and not saying it themselves.

The old saying holds up all across media: Women are seen more than heard. And it’s tough even for newspapers to let it go.

Hope Hicks has no experience

Three years into Hicks’s round-the-clock job as an adviser, confidante, and steady hand inside the Trump campaign and White House, most media still makes sure to note that before all that, she was inexperienced in politics. Even on the day she announced she was leaving, after the longest run of any aide not named Trump, the Washington Post described her as “a political neophyte.”

When does Hicks get to be called a savvy operator who made a brash move to join a campaign that professionals wrote off? After she helped Trump win a vicious Republican primary? After an upset presidential election? After running press through an unprecedented year in the White House?

At what point does she get to become, like so many young men in politics and media before her, “a wunderkind”? Barack Obama’s bright young staffers were described this way. His 27-year-old speechwriter Jon Favreau was given the “wunderkind” moniker.

 

For top men in the White House, the new-guy description fell off long ago or never even existed. Donald Trump, despite no political experience before jumping into the race around the same time as Hicks, is no neophyte. Chief of Staff John Kelly is a domestic policy novice with little apparent interest in the subject, but you wouldn’t know it from his descriptors.

 

Language matters. It signals whom we consider a leader and whom we do not; who is a rising star in her field and who is there to only support or assist. So often, the language we use to describe women undercuts accomplishments. Female doctors are more likely to be slighted, losing their title “doctor” and instead introduced by their first name at professional events more often than their male peers.

 

To make up for diminished credentials, women end up needing more of them to get ahead. Look at what it takes for a woman to get on a technology company board versus a man.

Hope Hicks is nice

Hicks also seems to deal with the old Catch-22 for successful women: If you’re successful, no one likes you. If you’re nice, you aren’t a leader. Men, of course, are treated just the opposite. We like successful men the more successful they become.

Hicks, like so many other women, seems to try to strike a balance between the two. Unfortunately for her, coverage tilts toward her “feminine” personality.

 

Hope Hicks is “unfailingly polite.” She is “deferential.” She is “gracious.” All of this, the media finds, as Brian Stelter at CNN recently put it, “alluring.”

 

Certainly she’s also been described many times as a longtime aide, as a rare Trump confidante who has some power to persuade him. It’s not that every line in every story is a sexist diatribe. If it were, ironically, that might be better. It would be easy to spot and call out. What we see with Hicks is the phenomenon that’s been tracked by behavioral researchers repeatedly, how implicit bias holds women back.

 

One form of this trap falls under the “descriptive stereotype,” which Fast Company explains includes describing women in a professional setting as “caring, warm, deferential, emotional, sensitive, and so on — traits consistently used to describe women for decades. Left alone those traits aren’t bad, of course, but when a woman performs a job traditionally held by men they can become incredibly harmful.”

 

The results are, as one researcher put it, “lethal” for women trying to advance in their careers.

 

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

 

Thanks HH for serving your country.......CL

 

It's just my opinion, CL.  I've got nothing against Hope Hicks.  I'm actually quite impressed with her career achievements at such a young age....takes some serious intelligence to get where she's at.  I just think for doing the right thing, stating the truth about telling"white lies" during her testimony, embarrassed Donald Trump and cost her the job.  Loyalty appears to be what Donald values more than anything.....and anybody in his employ that is not willing to be loyal at all times, even if it means lying while testifying to protect him, must go.  I also value your opinion, as you very well may be correct also.  The timing of her resignation seems very strange though.

 

GO RV, then BV

[coorslite21]

27 minutes ago, Shabibilicious said:

 

It's just my opinion, CL.  I've got nothing against Hope Hicks.  I'm actually quite impressed with her career achievements at such a young age....takes some serious intelligence to get where she's at.  I just think for doing the right thing, stating the truth about telling"white lies" during her testimony, embarrassed Donald Trump and cost her the job.  Loyalty appears to be what Donald values more than anything.....and anybody in his employ that is not willing to be loyal at all times, even if it means lying while testifying to protect him, must go.  I also value your opinion, as you very well may be correct also.  The timing of her resignation seems very strange though.

 

GO RV, then BV

 

Good deal.....we are in agreement once again....an opinion is just that.....an opinion.........and I respect your opinion....

 

And a fact is a fact.......and there is nothing factual available as of yet......as to why she left her job......

 

17 hours ago, coorslite21 said:

White Lies really do matter.....in fact it cost Hope her job. 

 

[Shabibilicious]

7 minutes ago, coorslite21 said:

 

Good deal.....we are in agreement once again....an opinion is just that.....an opinion.........and I respect your opinion....

 

And a fact is a fact.......and there is nothing factual available as of yet......as to why she left her job......

 

 

Yep, I should have originally said...in my opinion it cost Hope her job.  Poor choice of words on my part.  

 

GO RV, then BV