Trump picks Fox News host Tammy Bruce for key State Department post

Tammy Bruce becomes the latest Fox News veteran to join Donald Trump’s Cabinet, naming her State Department spokesperson.

Bruce, 62, would serve under current Florida Senator Marco Rubio after his appointment.

The Fox Nation host and Fox News Channel contributor is the latest network employee to join the new administration.

So far, nominees and appointees with Fox on their resumes include Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Border Czar Tom Homan, National Security Advisor Michael Waltz, Israel’s Ambassador Mike Huckabee, Director of National Intelligence hopeful Tulsi Gabbard, would-be attorney being General Pam. Bondi and several others.

Like many of her future colleagues, Bruce has a history of often controversial on-air statements that have upset liberals.

In 2021, she sparked outrage for claiming that Democrats were proposing funding for research into mutant human-animal hybrids.

“Chimeric research is Pandora’s box, which is clearly from hell and should not be opened,” she said.

“But the scientific community, spurred on by their own hubris, could very well open it, with the help of American taxpayer money. And if that happens, Democrats will have blood on their hands for not joining the Republican Party and stopping it when they had the chance.”

Trump announced Bruce’s hiring on Friday evening in a post on Truth Social.

“It is my great honor to announce that Tammy Bruce will join our incredible nominee for U.S. Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, as spokesperson for the U.S. Department of State,” he said.

“As one of America’s longest-serving news contributors, Tammy has brought TRUTH to the American people for more than two decades.”

Trump also noted that Bruce is a former liberal activist, once president of the Los Angeles chapter of the National Organization for Women.

She was censured by NOW for leading protests against the acquittal of OJ Simpson in 1995. The lawyer reported.

Bruce has since gradually moved to the right and become a prominent “anti-woke” activist, with Trump claiming that she “saw the lies and fraud of the radical left and quickly became one of the strongest conservative voices on radio and television.”

“Tammy Bruce has been a highly valued contributor to FOX News Media for nearly two decades and we wish her all the best in her new role,” a Fox News spokesperson told DailyMail.com in a statement.

Trump has begun filling part of his administration’s media relations department after appointing Steven Cheung as his communications director and Karoline Leavitt as White House press secretary.

She will likely work under Marco Rubio, who is considered one of the less controversial cabinet picks.

The Florida senator has gone from being denigrated by Trump as “Little Marco,” a heated campaign rival, to perhaps the most coveted of all Cabinet posts after railing against Trump and campaigning fervently for the MAGA Republican even after he had been passed over as vice president. on the card.

Rubio, who was elected to the Senate in 2010, is considered a foreign policy hawk who has taken tough action against China, Iran, Venezuela and Cuba, and who as secretary of state will lead Trump on the world stage .

He is currently the top Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee and was considered for a spot on Trump’s short list for vice president earlier this year.

As secretary of state, Rubio would be a key Trump envoy to urge Ukraine to find a path to a settlement with Russia in their yearslong conflict.

In 2019, Rubio urged Trump to adopt the harsh sanctions he eventually imposed on Venezuela in an effort to oust its authoritarian president, Nicolás Maduro.

Rep. Carlos Gimenez, R-Fla., praised Trump’s choice of Rubio.

“Congratulations to our own Secretary of State – who will be the highest-serving Hispanic in American history!” he wrote on X.

Sen. Bill Hagerty, who was shortlisted for the position, congratulated Rubio Monday evening.

‘Congratulations to my friend on his appointment as Minister of Foreign Affairs! “I have no doubt that he is prepared to implement President Trump’s America First agenda, the peace through strength agenda, around the world.”

Rubio succeeds Trump’s former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

The newly elected president’s second term as president will be defined by the loyal allies who have stood by him during his four years outside the White House.

As the clock ticks down to his inauguration on January 20, all eyes will be on Mar-a-Lago as Republicans compete for a Cabinet spot or a senior role in the West Wing.

And they fill up quickly. A slew of potential appointments have emerged for top Cabinet or West Wing positions, and a handful of contenders for other crucial positions have emerged.

This includes Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy as co-heads of the Department of Government Efficiency, and John Ratcliffe as director of the CIA.

But the president-elect sent shockwaves through the Republican Party with his announcement that he will appoint former Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz as his attorney general in a bold — and ultimately failed — test of his unchecked power.

Gaetz was forced to withdraw on November 21 over an alleged underage sex scandal and hours later Trump named former Florida AG Pam Bondi as his new choice.

He has also nominated former Democrat Tulsi Gabbard, who angered critics with claims about “biolabs” in Ukraine, as director of National Intelligence.

And his choice of military veteran and Fox News host Pete Hegseth to lead the sprawling Department of Defense, despite little experience managing something of that size and complexity, has also come under fire, compounded by allegations of a previous sexual assault.

Perhaps the biggest bombshell came with his announcement that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would become Secretary of Health and Human Services, rather than as a non-Cabinet health czar.