- Since Trump took office, his administration has also hired over a dozen current and former Fox News executives and contributors to serve in a wide range of roles.
- Here are 19 people who have worked both for Fox News and have severed in Trump's administration.
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19 people who have gone through the revolving door between Fox News and the Trump administration
President Donald Trump has an incredibly close relationship with Fox News and certain Fox hosts.
President Donald Trump has a well-documented love of Fox News, known to spend hours watching (and sometimes live-tweeting) Fox programming and even calling his favorite Fox hosts, like Sean Hannity and Lou Dobbs , for advice.
Since Trump took office, his administration has also hired over a dozen current and former Fox News reporters and contributors to serve in both high-level cabinet and deputy chief of staff posts, as ambassadors, and in communications roles at federal agencies, according to an analysis by Matt Gertz, a senior fellow at the liberal media watchdog Media Matters.
And some former administration officials including Trump's trusted former communications director Hope Hicks have left the White House to work at Fox.
Trump's cozy relationship with the network has created a well-oiled revolving door between Fox and the Trump administration.
Here are 19 people who have worked both for Fox News and have served in Trump's administration.
Former White House communications director Hope Hicks is currently a senior public relations executive at Fox.
J. Scott Applewhite/AP
Source: Business Insider
Former Trump Deputy campaign manager David Bossie is an on-air analyst at Fox.
AP/Rainier Ehrhardt
Source: Fox News
Trump's former acting ICE Director Thomas Homan became a Fox News contributor in June 2018.
Associated Press/Evan Vucci
Source: Fox News
For eight months, former Fox News executive Bill Shine worked as Trump's deputy chief of staff for communications. He left the White House in March to join the Trump reelection campaign.
Alex Wong/Getty Images
Source: Business Insider
Former State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauret was a co-anchor of "Fox & Friends" before joining the Trump administration.
Associated Press/Alex Brandon
Source: Business Insider
Sebastian Gorka went from being a Fox News contributor to briefly holding a position in the White House from January to August of 2017, going back to Fox, and leaving Fox again in 2019 to join the Sinclair Broadcasting Group.
REUTERS/Mary F. Calvert
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
Trump's Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao has served as both a Fox News contributor and a board member of News Corporation, Fox's parent company.
Jose Luis Magana/AP
Source: Media Matters for America
Trump hired John Bolton a former US ambassador to the UN and long-time Fox contributor as his National Security Advisor in the spring of 2018.
Thomson Reuters
Source: New York Times
White House director of strategic communications Mercedes Schlapp also served as a Fox analyst before joining the administration.
Susan Walsh/AP Images
Source: Media Matters for America
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson also briefly served as a Fox Analyst before his 2016 presidential bid.
AP Photo/Matt Rourke
Source: Fox News
Former US Senator Scott Brown also served as an on-air analyst before Trump appointed him as Ambassador to New Zealand.
AP Photo/Nick Perry
Source: ABC News
US Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell also worked as a Fox contributor.
Michael Sohn/AP
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
Another ambassador, Georgette Mosbacher, was a Fox contributor before being confirmed as the US ambassador to Poland in early 2018.
Omar Marques/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
Source: Media Matters
Anthony Scaramucci, who spent an infamous 10 days as White House communications director, was previously a Fox Business analyst and hosted "Wall Street Week" on the network.
Hollis Johnson/Business Insider
Sources: New York Post , Business Insider
K.T. MacFarland went from being a Fox national security contributor to briefly working in the White House under former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn. She has since left the Trump administration, and still occasionally appears on Fox Business.
Associated Press/Angel Chevrestt
Source: Fox Business , New Yorker
Treasury Department spokesman Tony Sayegh worked as a GOP strategist and a Fox News contributor before joining the administration.
AP Photo/Gustavo Garello
Source: US Treasury Department
Former Fox journalist Lea Gabrielle currently serves as the State Department's special envoy for the Global Engagement Center, which seeks to combat disinformation around the world.
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Source: CNN
Morgan Ortagus, who appeared on Fox as a contributor after working on counterterrorism and international development issues under the Bush and Obama administrations, replaced Nauret as State Department spokeswoman in April 2019.
AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais
Source: Newsweek
Former Fox production assistant Joh McEntee worked as Trump's body man during the campaign and the first year of his administration, but was reportedly fired in May 2018 after the Department of Homeland Security raised concerns about his gambling habits.
REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
Source: Washington Post
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