Hope Hicks Tells Friends She's Ruled Out Returning to Trumpworld--At Least for This Year

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by Caleb Howe | 8:19 am, July 8th, 2018

She’s beloved by the president and his family. But talk of her as the next chief of staff isn’t being taken seriously.

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07.07.18 9:02 PM ET

Those hoping for a return of Hope Hicks, President Donald Trump’s trusted aide and former communications director, are going to have to wait until, at the very least, Season 3 of The Presidency—or so she’s told friends and close associates.

According to multiple sources familiar with the conversations, Hicks has told confidants over the past couple weeks that she’s ruled out even entertaining a return to the Trump administration for the remainder of 2018, even if the president asked. Whether she’d still refuse beyond that is less clear, though multiple friends tell The Daily Beast that Hicks has clearly indicated she wouldn’t be interested in returning to Trump’s West Wing for years, if ever.

Hicks, who found herself at the center of high-profile scandal and Trump-Russia fallout during her stint in Trump’s Washington, was consistently viewed as the White House official who knew President Trump better than any other colleague. She was a loyal soldier, a frequent adviser, a source of emotional and calming personal support for Trump, and someone the president treated like family, so much so that he called her “Hopey.”

Following her retreat from Washington, D.C., earlier this year—a departure that triggered a whole new round of feuding, power struggle, and backstabbing in the Trump administration—Hicks has been enjoying stretches of vacation and fielding a glut of job offers. But, late last month, chatter about a Hope return, including to the post of chief of staff, began to emerge and it managed to reach even President Trump.

The origins of the chatter were a Washington Examiner column titled, “Hope Hicks should replace John Kelly as White House chief of staff.” The opinion piece circulated quickly among pro-Trump political circles with varying degrees of seriousness. Vanity Fair subsequently reported that Hicks was a “dark-horse candidate” to replace increasingly frustrated and power-stripped White House chief of staff John Kelly. “Two sources say Hicks’s name is being discussed inside the White House,” the article continued.

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[Wwcd]

1. Episode 3: The role of John Kelly will be played by Dotard's nanny

Ick!

[underpants]

3. Funny I was thinking about fill-ins on soap operas

I don't watch them but I've worked with people who did at lunch breaks.

There's a standard practice on these shows of having a replacement actor/actress fill in. "The role of 'Charlotte' will be played by ____________ "

It all looks like a bad soap opera.

[Wwcd]

4. We're all just victims & players in the Dotard "Truman Show"

Yes, the role change often announced on soap operas is where my thought immediately went.

I've watched a few in my day.

[Turbineguy]

2. Maybe she could

visit him in prison.