Sarah Sanders' replacement

From the few times I've seen of lying and defending Melania, she should be fine, but I wonder how Melania feels about having her spokesperson taken away from her.

"I am pleased to announce @StephGrisham45 will be the next @PressSec & Comms Director! She has been with us since 2015 - @POTUS & I can think of no better person to serve the Administration & our country. Excited to have Stephanie working for both sides of the @WhiteHouse. #BeBest" Melania Trump tweeted.

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I guess she's ok with it.

Grisham will keep her current job too.

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Trump has tweaked the job duties before handing the reins to Grisham, whose purview will include a larger scope of responsibility than that of her predecessor Sarah Sanders, and one as yet unprecedented in this administration. Trump has appointed Grisham both White House director of communications as well as press secretary, a senior White House official tells CNN. Grisham will be assuming the roles formerly held by Bill Shine, who departed as White House communications director in March, and Sanders, who has said her last day will be this Friday.

Wow. She's going to have a lot on her plate. Oh wait, I forgot. They don't do press conferences any more. She'll have plenty of time.

Grisham has been with team Trump longer than anyone currently in the White House, with the exception of Dan Scavino, both of whom started on the Trump campaign in 2015.

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After Trump took office, Grisham served as deputy press secretary in the West Wing during Sean Spicer's tenure.

However, Grisham soon caught the eye of first lady Melania Trump, who was impressed by Grisham's assistance during the first visit of Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his wife Akie Abe to Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, in February 2017. By the end of March, Grisham had made the move to the East Wing.

During her time with the first lady, Grisham has handled much of the responsibility of the first lady's forward-facing presence where she's made a name for herself as a dogged, if caustic, defender.

Dubbed "the enforcer" in a 2018 Washington Post profile, Grisham's job is to thwart as much as possible the criticism levied at the first lady on topics that have ranged from picking cyberbullying as part of her platform to Trump's need for privacy during a secretive kidney operation last April.

Well, that's what they SAID it was anyway.

But it was Grisham's participation in one of Melania Trump's biggest power plays that got the most attention. As sparring with East Wing staff escalated after fallout from a tiff during the first lady's first solo trip to Africa, Grisham released a statement calling for the firing of Mira Ricardel, a longtime government official and Trump's deputy national security adviser.

Ricardel, who was not particularly well-liked according to those who worked with her, and Grisham, had butted heads during the Africa trip, and Ricardel had not forgotten it, making it a mission to continue the feud back home in the weeks that followed. After flagging Ricardel's behavior to the West Wing, to no avail, the first lady consented to Grisham releasing a statement that read: "It is the position of the Office of the First Lady that she no longer deserves the honor of serving in this White House."

Within two days, Ricardel had been dismissed from the White House by the President and Melania Trump had staked claim that she and her staff are not to be tangled with.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.