First daughter and presidential adviser Ivanka Trump said her public goodbyes to White House Communications Director Hope Hicks in a tweet Wednesday evening.
‘Hope Hicks is loved & admired by all who know her,’ Ivanka Trump wrote ‘It’s with a heavy heart, but tremendous gratitude, that I wish her well in her next steps.’
Hicks was one of the president’s longest-serving political advisers, having handled public relations for Ivanka Trump’s brand before hopping aboard Donald Trump’s long-shot presidential campaign in 2015.
Ivanka Trump (left) tweeted a goodbye to White House Communications Director Hope Hicks (right), who will soon leave the post. Hicks worked for the first daughter before joining President Trump’s presidential campaign in 2015
First daughter and White House adviser Ivanka Trump talked about how ‘loved & admired’ Hope Hicks is at the White House several hours after the news broke that Hicks would soon be stepping down
She was the Trump campaign’s press secretary and remained in that role throughout the entire campaign.
When she first arrived in the West Wing she held the title of White House Director of Strategic Communications, a job created for her.
After the president tried out a number of individuals in the role of communications director, including the invisible Mike Dubke and the over-the-top Anthony Scaramucci, he named Hicks permanently to the position in September.
Scaramucci, who spent just 11 days in the role, also sent Hicks well wishes.
‘Hope Hicks is a world class person and is going to go on to have an unbelievable career,’ the ‘Mooch’ tweeted Wednesday. ‘She did an incredible job. The best is yet to come.’
Hicks’ departure is the second in two days to negatively impact Ivanka Trump.
On Tuesday, Deputy Communications Director Josh Raffel, who acted as Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner’s spokesman, said he’d be leaving in the next two months.
Raffel, a Democrat and Hillary Clinton supporter who was formerly a Hollywood PR exec, had become the administration’s go-to crisis communications guy.
Anthony Scaramucci, who briefly held the job Hope Hicks would go on to do, also wished her well in a tweet sent out Wednesday
Friends and colleagues who had spoken with Raffel cited family responsibilities back in New York as the reason he was departing the often-tumultuous Trump White House.
The White House has characterized Hicks’ departure as innocuous as well.
White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Wednesday that the communications director’s exit had ‘nothing’ to do ‘whatsoever’ with Hicks’ nine-hour-long conversation Tuesday with members of the House Intelligence Committee, who are probing Russian interference in the 2016 election.
‘This is something that she’s been thinking about for a while,’ Huckabee Sanders also offered.
Earlier this year, Hicks had become a central figure in the White House scandal over now former Staff Secretary Rob Porter.
DailyMail.com reported that both of Porter’s ex-wives accused him of spousal abuse.
Hicks helped draft the original White House response, which was in defense of the aide.