Kellyanne Conway Lands Top Job in Trump White House

Trump announced that Conway will have the title of “special counselor” to the president and will be the highest ranking female adviser within the Trump White House.

“As the United States has long maintained, peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians will only come through direct negotiations between the parties, and not through the imposition of terms by the United Nations”, Trump said.

‘I will either stay outside and run the political superstructure or I will go into the West Wing and take a position right next to the president where I feel I can serve him in the way I advise him off camera, ‘ she said.

Since the election she has been playing a leading role advising Trump as he prepares to enter the White House.

Her unique relationship with the president-elect has become, not completely accurate, fodder for late-night TV, especially Saturday Night Live.

Conway is a veteran pollster and a favored political strategist for conservative candidates. Her earliest public notoriety is likely as a panelist on Bill Maher’s Politically Incorrect. For example, Trump’s pick for Treasury Secretary is Steen Mnuchin, who worked 17 years at Goldman Sachs before he chose to start his own investment firm, Dune Capital.

In an interview on “New Day” the day of the announcement, Conway told host Chris Cuomo that the job “portfolio will be whatever the President wants it to be”. Conway took over the position in August, as part of a campaign shakeup which included the exit of former campaign chairman Paul Manafort. Obama did not replace him when he left past year to chair Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. You really see their entire visage change. Ted Cruz before joining Trump’s campaign after the Texas senator dropped from the race. She had been involved in a super PAC for Ted Cruz, who was battling Trump for the Republican nomination.

To hear Kellyanne Conway talk about managing her boss is to listen to a mother of four who has had ample experience with unruly toddlers. In an interview with NY, she described the way she would convince Trump to stop tweeting inflammatory things.

“It’s draining the swamp but also making sure we have prosperity and safety again”, she said.

Kellyanne Conway speaks on the phone at Trump Tower on December 16, 2016 in NY.