--- title: Melania Trump's Spokeswoman Will Replace Sarah Sanders description: A spokeswoman for Melania Trump known for issuing brief but cutting public comments will take over as White House press secretary. canonical: https://time.com/5613967/stephanie-grisham-white-house-press-secretary/ author: Tessa Berenson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-06-25T17:41:44.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T23:50:29.867Z article:section: Politics og:title: Melania Trump's Spokeswoman Will Replace Sarah Sanders as White House Press Secretary og:description: She's known for issuing brief but cutting remarks og:url: https://time.com/5613967/stephanie-grisham-white-house-press-secretary/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt69cb6a8e684fe891/6989ff0716d8847873c369a5/stephanie-grisham-new-press-secretary.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1024 og:image:height: 576 og:image:alt: Stephanie Grisham Is Next White House Press Secretary og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Melania Trump's Spokeswoman Will Replace Sarah Sanders as White House Press Secretary twitter:description: She's known for issuing brief but cutting remarks twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt69cb6a8e684fe891/6989ff0716d8847873c369a5/stephanie-grisham-new-press-secretary.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Melania Trump's Spokeswoman Will Replace Sarah Sanders as White House Press Secretary > Sponsored content. 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The First Lady announced Tuesday that Grisham would take over as the next White House Press Secretary. Saul Loeb—AFP/Getty Images  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Jun 25, 2019 5:41 PM UTC A spokeswoman for Melania Trump known for issuing terse but pointed public comments will take over as White House press secretary, the First Lady announced Tuesday. The former owner of an Arizona public relations firm, Stephanie Grisham has been with the Trump team since 2015, most recently serving as Melania Trump’s deputy chief of staff and communications director. She had been seen as a top contender for the White House press secretary job since Sanders announced her resignation from the position earlier this month. > [](https://twitter.com/FLOTUS/status/1143560381048283138) In recent months, the White House press secretary has been less visible, with Sanders setting records for the number of days since the last press briefing, a question-and-answer period often covered live on cable TV that was standard in previous administrations. At the time that Sanders’ departure was announced on June 13, she had not held a formal press briefing in more than 90 days. Instead, the White House has used press releases, Trump’s Twitter account and TV interviews to get the message out, with Sanders and Trump sometimes answering questions in brief appearances in the White House driveway or before boarding Marine One. As press secretary for Melania Trump, Grisham has issued statements that signaled the First Lady’s independence. After Donald Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, said that the First Lady “believes her husband” on allegations of an affair with porn star Stormy Daniels, Grisham gave a [brief but cutting statement](https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/07/politics/melania-trump-rudy-giuliani/index.html) to CNN. “I don’t believe Mrs. Trump has ever discussed her thoughts on anything with Mr. Giuliani,” she said. In another instance, she issued [an unusually tough statement](https://www.thelily.com/why-melania-trump-got-a-white-house-aide-fired/) about the departure of a deputy national security adviser from the White House. “It is the position of the Office of the first lady that she no longer deserves the honor of serving in this White House,” she said. And after the TV talk show “The View” aired a segment discussing a conspiracy theory involving a stand-in for the First Lady, she [issued another pointed statement](https://thehill.com/homenews/media/433830-melania-trump-spokeswoman-tears-into-the-view-for-petty-mean-girl-spirit). “I’ve always found it sad that a group of women spend so much time attacking another woman, whose only goal is to help children,” she said. ”Yesterday’s show went beyond the petty, mean-girl spirit that we’ve grown accustomed to.” Sanders praised the pick of her successor. > [](https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/1143563466847981569) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5613967/stephanie-grisham-white-house-press-secretary/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5613967/stephanie-grisham-white-house-press-secretary/"},"headline":"Melania Trump's Spokeswoman Will Replace Sarah Sanders as White House Press Secretary","datePublished":"2019-06-25T17:41:44.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T23:50:29.867Z","description":"A spokeswoman for Melania Trump known for issuing brief but cutting public comments will take over as White House press secretary.","url":"https://time.com/5613967/stephanie-grisham-white-house-press-secretary/","keywords":["White House","Melania Trump"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt69cb6a8e684fe891/6989ff0716d8847873c369a5/stephanie-grisham-new-press-secretary.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tessa Berenson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt69cb6a8e684fe891/6989ff0716d8847873c369a5/stephanie-grisham-new-press-secretary.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Stephanie Grisham Is Next White House Press Secretary","caption":"US-POLITICS","creditText":"Saul Loeb—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/white-house/","name":"White House"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5613967/stephanie-grisham-white-house-press-secretary/","name":"Melania Trump's Spokeswoman Will Replace Sarah Sanders as White House Press Secretary"}}]}] ```