Alyssa Farah

In April 2020, it was reported that Meadows, now Trump's Chief of Staff, has considered bringing Farah on as a White House Press Secretary. She joined the White House Office as the White House Director of Strategic Communications on April 7.

Alyssa Alexandra Farah (born June 15, 1989) is an American political advisor, currently serving as White House Director of Strategic Communications. Farah previously served as Deputy Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Media Affairs and the Press Secretary for the United States Department of Defense from 2019 to 2020. Farah also served as press secretary for U.S. Vice President Mike Pence and Special Assistant to President Donald Trump from October 2017 to September 2019, succeeded by Katie Waldman. Farah is of Lebanese and Syrian descent.

Farah was born on June 15, 1989 in Los Angeles. Her father Joseph Farah, who is of Syrian and Lebanese descent, is a journalist who was executive news editor at the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner before moving to Northern California to become editor of The Sacramento Union in 1990. He later founded WorldNetDaily, a far-right publication. Her mother, Judy, (née Smagula) is a Sacramento-based journalist who has written for HuffPost, Associated Press, and Comstock's Magazine.