McEnany called his comments about Mexican immigrants "racist". However, in early 2015, before becoming a Trump supporter, McEnany was highly critical of him, declaring on CNN and Fox Business that "Donald Trump has shown himself to be a showman" and it was "unfortunate" and "inauthentic" to call him a Republican. She supported Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election. While in law school, McEnany appeared on CNN as a paid commentator. Bush, and later worked in the White House Office of Communications, where she wrote media briefings. CareerĪs a college student, McEnany interned for several politicians, including Tom Gallagher, Adam Putnam and George W. Winick Award for Excellence, a scholarship awarded to students in the top 1% of their class. At the Miami School of Law, McEnany was a recipient of the Bruce J. McEnany attended the University of Miami School of Law for one year before transferring to Harvard Law School after completing her first (1L) year at the University of Miami. After graduating from Georgetown, McEnany spent three years as a producer on the Mike Huckabee Show. While at Oxford, she was taught politics by future British Labour politician Nick Thomas-Symonds. and she studied abroad at St Edmund Hall, Oxford. After graduating, she majored in international politics at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service in Washington, D.C. McEnany attended the Academy of the Holy Names, a private Catholic preparatory school in Tampa. She is the daughter of commercial roofing company owner Michael and Leanne McEnany. McEnany was born on April 18, 1988, in Tampa, Florida and was raised in Tampa. Following the Trump administration, she became an on-air contributor for Fox News and serves as a co-host of Outnumbered. She later worked as a commentator on CNN.
McEnany began her media career as a producer for Huckabee on Fox News. She worked for the Trump 2020 presidential campaign as national press secretary from 2019 to 2020 and again as senior advisor from October 2020 to January 2021. In 2017, she was appointed national spokesperson for the Republican National Committee. Kayleigh McEnany ( / ˈ k eɪ l i ˈ m æ k ə n ɛ n i/ born April 18, 1988) is an American conservative political commentator and author who served the administration of Donald Trump as the 33rd White House press secretary from April 2020 to January 2021.Įarly in the 2016 Republican Party presidential primaries, she was a critic of Donald Trump, but over time became known as one of his staunchest defenders.
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