Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the longest-serving press secretary the Trump Administration has had, is leaving her post and the podium of the Brady Briefing Room.
Mr Trump tweeted that Mrs Sanders would be returning to her home of Arkansas after more than three years on the job.
“She is a very special person with extraordinary talents, who has done an incredible job,” Mr Trump wrote.
She started out as deputy press secretary before replacing Sean Spicer in the top post in July 2017.
Mrs Sanders, 36, has been a fierce defender of the president, famously saying that God “wanted Donald Trump to become president”.
At a White House event on Thursday, Mr Trump described Mrs Sanders as “a special person, a very very fine woman”.
She said her time in the administration was “the honour of a lifetime”.
“This is something I will treasure forever,” she said. “I’m going to continue to be one of the most outspoken and loyal supporters of the president.”
The mother-of-three said she was looking forward to spending more time with her children as she transitioned into a new role outside the White House.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders has been a constant lightening rod in an administration that happily calls down the media thunder. She held fewer formal press briefings than her predecessors, and came under intense criticism at times for which side of the “it’s spin/it’s a lie” line that all mouthpieces for the president have to straddle. Having Donald Trump to run interference for would likely be an impossible task for anyone. Regardless, what say you about the tenure of Sarah Huckabee Sanders, now that she has done her last gaggle?
We haven’t had a round of White House Apprentice/Survivor for a while now. Though the OSC recommended that Kellyanne Conaway go so it had to be Sanders.Report
Perhaps she could consider agricultural work? I suspect there’s any number of organic farms that would be glad to have someone with her experience in spreading bullshit around.Report
Maybe they’ll bring back the Mooch!Report
Oh how I wish.Report
As someone on the Twitters put it, I guess she’ll have to go back to lying for free.Report
My favorite was, “She is resigning to spend more time lying to her family.”Report
If no one is suggesting she be arrested, then she must have done a wonderful job.Report
She wasn’t very good at her job, notwithstanding no one could really be good in that job. But she’s in a niche where regardless of the status or legacy of Trump and Trumpism over the next couple of decades, she’ll always be able to get a job somewhere in the ecosystem. (She’s a bit younger than I thought before looking it up; she’s primed to be at a power nexus in whatever next iteration right wing politics will hath been wrought in the 2030s.
At the very least, our long national nightmare of Sanders Headline Confusion is now over.
eta- there’s a bit of an under discussed feature of the Trumpers, in that for all the geriatrics around the place, there’s also a lot of 30 year olds (e.g. Sanders, Steven Miller) who are going to be bouncing around politics for potentially close to the next half century. As well as some Xers like Michael Anton and Brad Pascale, who, if they avoid jail, could also be around into the late 2040s.Report
There isn’t such a thing that makes 100 percent of a generation go for one political affiliation. Sanders, Millers, Hope Hicks, etc. are still exceptions to their generations rather than rules.Report
Note how she got the same level of praise from Trump as the Charlottesville torchbearers.Report
Very fine people behind both of her faces.Report