Trump nominates ex-Fox commentator Tammy Bruce for deputy UN ambassador | Trump administration
Donald Trump said on Saturday that he called Tammy Bruce, the spokesman for the State Department, as the next United Nations Deputy US deputy representative, which would make the former Fox News commentator a ambassador.
The president made this announcement on Truth Social, where he congratulated Bruce as “a great patriot, television personality and successful author”.
She has been as a head-up spokesman for the State Department since Trump took office this year.
Trump said Bruce, who had no prior experience in foreign policy before being appointed spokesperson for the State Department in January, “will represent our country brilliantly at the United Nations”.
Bruce has been a former radio host who has been a commentator of Fox News for over 20 years, where she was also an occasional host of Trump’s favorite program, Sean Hannity. She was president of the section of the national organization for women in Los Angeles from 1990 to 1996. Before her political conversion to conservatism, she organized a radio program where her frank opinions were widely broadcast on the KFI station of Los Angeles, and she was one of the radio commentators representing the progressive movement at that time.
Bruce was dismissed from her radio post after protesting vocally on the acquittal of OJ Simpson in 1995 and later became a criticism of progressive feminism.
It has acquired national importance thanks to its conservative television appearances and its writings. In 2002, Bruce published her book The New Thought Police, in which she claimed to “exhibit the dangerous climb of the left McCarthismsm”. She also briefly contributed to the Guardian opinion pages.
Bruce, a lesbian who received a prize by the Republicans of log cabin in a Mar-A-Lago gala in 2022, was frank in his opposition to the rights of the transgender. She shared articles which spread a disinformation on the Trans community, including parts featuring anti-trans activist “detransition” Chloe Cole.
As a spokesperson, she defended the Trump administration’s foreign policy decisions, ranging from her mass deportation policies to her management of ongoing wars in Ukraine and Gaza, which Trump had promised on the campaign campaign he would end quickly.
If Bruce is confirmed by the Senate controlled by the Republican, she could be in post before the nominated man is his boss, Mike Waltz. The confirmation of the Senate of the former national security adviser for the American ambassador to the UN would have been blocked by Rand Paul, the Kentucky Republican who clashed with Waltz to maintain American troops in Afghanistan.
