19 people who have gone through the revolving door between Fox News and the Trump administration
Former White House communications director Hope Hicks is currently a senior public relations executive at Fox.
Trump's former acting ICE Director Thomas Homan became a Fox News contributor in June 2018.
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.
Source:Business Insider
Former State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauret was a co-anchor of "Fox & Friends" before joining the Trump administration.
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.
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.
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.
Source: New York Times
White House director of strategic communications Mercedes Schlapp also served as a Fox analyst before joining the administration.
Source: Media Matters for America
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson also briefly served as a Fox Analyst before his 2016 presidential bid.
Source: Fox News
Former US Senator Scott Brown also served as an on-air analyst before Trump appointed him as Ambassador to New Zealand.
Source: ABC News
US Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell also worked as a Fox contributor.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
Another ambassador, Georgette Mosbacher, was a Fox contributor before being confirmed as the US ambassador to Poland in early 2018.
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.
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.
Source: Fox Business, New Yorker
Treasury Department spokesman Tony Sayegh worked as a GOP strategist and a Fox News contributor before joining the administration.
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.
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.
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.
Source: Washington Post
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