President Donald Trump's male friends wanted to be fixed up with former White House communications director Hope Hicks, but the commander-in-chief declined to play matchmaker, according to a new book by Ronald Kessler, the New York Post reported Thursday.
Hicks, 29, a former teen model, worked for Ivanka Trump and the Trump Organization before joining the billionaire real estate mogul's presidential campaign and moving on to the White House as his communications director, according to the Business Insider.
She resigned on Feb. 28 after she was interviewed by special counsel Robert Mueller's team looking into Russian interference in the 2016 election. News also broke that she had been dating staff secretary Rob Porter, who had been accused of domestic abuse by his two ex-wives, noted the Business Insider.
According to Kessler's book "The Trump White House: Changing the Rules of the Game," Hicks appeared to be on the minds of many of president's male friends, the Post reported.
"Trump has told friends that billionaires are constantly asking him to fix them up with Hicks, who was consumed by her work as communications director and until recently was never seen with a date. Trump says he refuses," Kessler wrote in the book, which is due out April 3 from Crown Forum.
The Post reported that Hicks had been rumored to be dating Trump's former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski before Porter.
"Hope is outstanding and has done great work for the last three years," Trump said of Hicks, according to The New York Times. "She is as smart and thoughtful as they come, a truly great person. I will miss having her by my side, but when she approached me about pursuing other opportunities, I totally understood. I am sure we will work together again in the future."
Politico wrote in a profile of Hicks last July that she was "protected" by her relationship with Trump and seen as one of his closest advisors before his departure.
The HuffPost reported that Trump plucked Hicks out of working on Ivanka Trump's clothing line, where she had been since 2014, to work as the press secretary on his presidential campaign in 2015.
After the inauguration, Hicks was named his director of strategic communications and replaced Anthony Scaramucci as communications director last July, the HuffPost said.
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