The Trumpettes take DC! Glam, gym-fit and allergic to long skirts, they're the Mar-a-Lago 'It Girls'... and all have the same woman to thank for their identical style
The names may have changed but the hemlines remain the same. Donald Trump's penchant for promoting attractive, poised and fragrant young women - who just happen to look good in a short skirt - is one policy that he clearly has every intention of reviving in his second White House term.
Critics marvel at the nerve of a man who, despite facing myriad accusations of sexual misconduct, continues to surround himself with telegenic young female acolytes, often pushing them into the spotlight as representatives of Team Trump.
Democrat women have been particularly appalled, painting them as Trump-enabling traitors to the cause. However Republican pundits say they've been highly effective in providing what one called a 'softer sell' of Trump to voters, particularly the electorally-crucial demographic of suburban women, who may be turned off by the more ferocious male members of his administration.
In many ways, Trump's own daughter, Ivanka, provided the template for the perfect Trumpette and rose effortlessly to become one of the most powerful aides in Daddy's first White House. Following in her Louboutin-clad footsteps were the likes of Hope Hicks and Kayleigh McEnany - both at one time Trump's press chief.
Hicks, a preppy teenage model from Greenwich, Connecticut, was just 26 and doing PR for Ivanka's online fashion business when Donald told her she'd be press secretary for his potential presidential campaign. When she resigned in 2018, she was his longest-serving political aide.
McEnany, a blonde Republican diehard from university days who soon became a pro-Trump TV news political pundit, inevitably caught The Donald's eye and ended up as his press secretary from 2020 to 2021. She now co-hosts a chat show on Fox News.
From next week, a new guard of twenty and thirty-something women - all gym-toned bare legs, high heels and highlighted tresses - will be flashily flying the flag for Trump.
Even if they're not formally working in his administration, their mere presence in his camp provides not only a glamour otherwise lacking in Trumpland but reassurance - misplaced or not - to fellow Americans that the new regime is not just about hatchet-faced men in suits...
Trump's own daughter, Ivanka (pictured in May 2024), provided the template for the perfect Trumpette and rose effortlessly to become one of the most powerful aides in Daddy's first White House.
Hope Hicks (pictured in 2020), a preppy teenage model from Greenwich, Connecticut, was just 26 and doing PR for Ivanka's online fashion business when Donald told her she'd be press secretary for his potential presidential campaign.
Kayleigh McEnany, a blonde Republican diehard from university days who soon became a pro-Trump TV news political pundit, inevitably caught The Donald's eye and ended up as his press secretary from 2020 to 2021. (Trump and McEnany are pictured in 2020).
Margo Martin
Martin, an Oklahoma native, has drawn comparisons with Hope Hicks having risen swiftly from being a lowly White House press assistant during Trump's first term to becoming a top aide who is often seen with the president-elect. More controversially, she's also drawn comparisons to the boss's wife, Melania, who some say she closely resembles though - at 29 - is rather younger than the 53-year-old Mrs Trump.
As Trump's deputy communications chief during his 2024 election campaign, Martin was one of the few members of his inner circle who accompanied him to Manhattan criminal court in April for the start of his Stormy Daniels hush money trial.
Martin is loyal - a trait Trump enormously admires - and was one of the few of his staff to stay with him after he lost the 2020 election.
A social media enthusiast, she often posts snaps from the president-elect's jets but has become an online star in her own right, with nearly 130,000 followers on Instagram.
Margo Martin (pictured in 2024), an Oklahoma native, has drawn comparisons with Hope Hicks having risen swiftly from being a lowly White House press assistant during Trump's first term to becoming a top aide who is often seen with the president-elect.
Natalie Harp
Being known in Trump circles as 'the human printer' isn't the most glamorous title for any ambitious young Trumpette - but it describes how 33-year-old Harp serves a crucial function for the boss.
The latter prefers to read everything on paper rather than on a screen, so Harp follows him around carrying a portable printer, rechargeable batteries and a supply of paper. California-born Harp took a business degree at an evangelical college where she says she learnt that 'doing God's work is not limited to ministry in churches of foreign countries but deep in the heart of our own neighborhoods and, yes, even the DC swamp'.
In 2015, Harp was the victim of a terrible medical error which left her with chronic health issues. She credits her survival to a piece of Trump legislation, the 'Right To Try' law allowing patients to access experimental treatments.
When she said as much on Fox News in 2019, Trump saw the interview and rang the broadcaster, praising the 'young, beautiful woman' he had seen on screen.
She joined his unsuccessful election campaign in 2020 and again four years later, when she reportedly spent more time with Trump than anyone else. Harp helps him with his social media posts, and also reportedly finds and prints out nice things people say about him online.
Being known in Trump circles as 'the human printer' isn't the most glamorous title for any ambitious young Trumpette - but it describes how 33-year-old Natalie Harp (pictured in 2024) serves a crucial function for the boss.
Karoline Leavitt
As his new White House press secretary, and the youngest in US history, 27-year-old Leavitt is the latest manifestation of Trump's belief in the virtues of having a fresh-faced young woman as the public face of his administration.
Leavitt was the national press secretary of his 2024 presidential campaign, having herself stood unsuccessfully for Congress in 2022 on a Trump agenda of cutting taxes, gun rights and stronger law enforcement.
'Karoline is smart, tough, and has proven to be a highly effective communicator,' says Trump.
Another graduate of a Christian university, in her case a Catholic college in her home state of New Hampshire, she began working for the first Trump White House shortly after graduating in 2019.
Leavitt's husband, entrepreneur Nicholas Riccio, is 30 years her senior. They had their first child last year and, after seeing Trump almost assassinated in Pennsylvania last July, she rushed back to work just four days after giving birth.
'The president literally put his life on the line to win this election,' she explained. 'The least I could do is get back to work quickly.'
As his new White House press secretary, and the youngest in US history, 27-year-old Karoline Leavitt (pictured in 2024) is the latest manifestation of Trump's belief in the virtues of having a fresh-faced young woman as the public face of his administration.
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Sonny Nelson
28-year-old Nelson, director of media for Trump's 2024 campaign, is another rising aide seemingly plucked from Team Trump central casting - slim, pretty, blonde, religious and ever ready to go on TV and defend the boss with a dazzling smile and steely devotion.
'Jesus paid it all' reads her bio entry on X, formerly Twitter. Nelson grew up in North Carolina where she was a cheerleader with a strong interest in conservative politics.
Her mother founded a group of pro-life pregnancy care centres and the young Nelson would join her each year on the annual anti-abortion March For Life in Washington DC. She joined Trump's 2020 election campaign, rapidly rising through the ranks and became an increasingly popular panelist on Fox News, where glamorous blonde women with conservative views are always welcome.
28-year-old Sonny Nelson (pictured in 2024), director of media for Trump's 2024 campaign, is another rising aide seemingly plucked from Team Trump central casting.
Alina Habba
Younger Trumpettes looking for tips on how to impress the president-elect might like to watch Alina Habba in action. At an election rally in New York last October, Trump's s**t-kicking defense lawyer strode into the Madison Square Garden arena to blaring hip-hop music, wearing a red jumpsuit topped with a silver-sequinned cape emblazoned with the word 'MAGA'.
'Yo! Yo!' she shouted to the crowd. 'Are you ready to make history and make some liberals cry?'
She's certainly done the latter as, instead of being behind bars, her client is heading back to the White House. Trump last month named Habba, 40, his counselor to the president.
Habba - a gun enthusiast who formerly worked in the fashion industry before training as a lawyer - first met Trump in 2019 after joining his golf club in New Jersey, close to where she lives. Trump advisers were reportedly alarmed by her relative lack of experience (she was a former lawyer for a parking garage company) after he hired her the following year as his main defence lawyer.
She's earned a reputation for fighting cases for Trump that other lawyers might refuse and for going on TV to deliver ferocious attacks on his enemies. She has described New York Attorney General Letitia James as a 'sick person' and 'unhinged'.
The mother-of-two was memorably spotted serenading the president-elect with the song, 'Trump Won', during election celebrations at Mar-a-Lago.
Younger Trumpettes looking for tips on how to impress the president-elect might like to watch Alina Habba (pictured in 2024) in action.
Habba connected her friend with the Trump cause, Sigalit Flicker (pictured in 2024), who has now become a MAGA darling.
Siggy Flicker
A further service that Habba did to the Trump cause was connecting it with her friend, Sigalit Flicker, who has now become a MAGA darling.
The 57-year-old Israeli-American and former TV star of 'The Real Housewives of New Jersey' has made a career as a professional matchmaker, notably even offering dating tips to her first husband, Mark Flicker, the father of her two children, following their divorce after 10 years of marriage.
Flicker, the daughter of a Holocaust survivor, is a leading light in 'Jexit', a group that calls for Jews to join the Republican party.
Part of Trump's set of friends in Florida, she's been spotted regularly with him at Mar-a-Lago but told the Mail recently that she is not seeking any kind of formal role in his administration.
'I will always be there to support him behind the scenes,' she said.
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