Donald Trump appoints Steven Cheung as White House communications director
Steven Cheung has been named as the new White House communications director under president-elect Donald Trump.
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US president-elect Donald Trump has named Steven Cheung as his White House communications director in his new administration.
Sergio Gor has been appointed as the head of Trump's personnel office.
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The second Trump administration is set to be sworn into office at an inauguration event on January 20.
US president-elect Donald Trump has announced that Steven Cheung will serve as his White House communications director and Sergio Gor will run the personnel office in the new administration.
Mr Cheung led communications for Trump's latest campaign, where he gained a reputation for attacks on the Republican's opponents. A native of Sacramento, California, he worked in Republican politics and for the Ultimate Fighting Championship before joining Trump's team in 2016.
He also served as Trump's director of strategic response, a communications role, during his first term in office.
Mr Cheung ran the president-elect's communications during his campaign and also served as Mr Trump's director of strategic response during his first term in office.
Mr Gor ran Winning Team Publishing, which he started with Donald Trump Jr, and also led the super PAC Right for America.
The Presidential Personnel Office will likely be a focal point of Trump's efforts to shape his administration's staff with loyalists.
The president-elect issued a statement to say he was "thrilled to have them join my White House".
"Steven Cheung and Sergio Gor have been trusted advisors since my first presidential campaign in 2016, and have continued to champion America First principles," Trump said.
Trump also announced on Friday that his 27-year-old transition spokesperson, Karoline Leavitt, would become his White House press secretary.
Ms Leavitt endeared herself to Trump through her ardent defence of him in news interviews and her take-no-prisoners style, Trump advisers said.
The job of the White House press secretary typically is to help inform the American people about presidential activities without betraying the confidence of the boss.
"I have the utmost confidence she will excel at the podium, and help deliver our message to the American People as we, Make America Great Again," Trump said in a statement.
Ms Leavitt will be the youngest person to ever hold the title of White House press secretary. Ron Ziegler was the previous youngest press secretary at age 29 when then-president Richard Nixon gave him the position in 1969.
Karoline Leavitt is set to become the youngest person to ever hold the title of White House press secretary.
A New Hampshire native, Ms Leavitt was an assistant press secretary during the latter part of Trump's first term from 2017 to 2021.
When Trump was defeated by Democrat Joe Biden in 2020, Ms Leavitt became communications director for Republican US Representative Elise Stefanik, who has been tapped by Trump as his US ambassador to the United Nations.
Ms Leavitt ran for a seat in the US House of Representatives from New Hampshire in 2022, winning the Republican primary.
She lost the general election to Democrat Chris Pappas, and then joined Trump's 2024 campaign and has been the chief spokesperson for the president-elect's transition team.
The latest appointments came a day after North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum was also announced as the new administration's interior secretary.
"He's going to head the Department of Interior, and it's going to be fantastic," Trump said at a gala held at his Mar-a-Lago Florida retreat on Thursday.
Mr Burgum, 68, ran against Trump for the Republican presidential nomination before quitting and becoming a loyal Trump supporter, appearing at fundraisers and advocating for Trump on television.
The interior secretary will oversee policies guiding the use of more than 200 million hectares of federal and tribal land, a fifth of the nation's surface area.
President-elect Donald Trump hosted a gala event at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida to celebrate his election victory and new staff appointments.
President Joe Biden made the agency central to his climate change agenda by boosting the permitting of offshore wind and solar energy projects and creating a program to lease lands for conservation in the same way they are for development.
Mr Burgum is expected to be tasked with increasing oil, gas and mineral production on federal lands and waters, which will likely involve ratcheting up new leasing in the Gulf of Mexico and on lands in oil-producing states such as Wyoming and New Mexico.
Trump on Friday announced that Mr Burgum would also lead a newly created National Energy Council that would seek to establish US "energy dominance" around the world.
In his new position as chairman of the council, Mr Burgum will oversee a panel that crosses all executive branch agencies involved in energy permitting, production, generation, distribution, regulation and transportation, Trump said in a statement.
"This Council will oversee the path to U.S. ENERGY DOMINANCE by cutting red tape, enhancing private sector investments across all sectors of the Economy, and by focusing on INNOVATION over longstanding, but totally unnecessary, regulation,'' Trump said.
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