Steven Chueng to serve as White House communications director

Steven Cheung, who has served arsenic a apical property adjutant connected the Trump campaign for the past 2 years, volition articulation the incoming medication arsenic White House communications director, President-elect Trump announced Friday.

While Cheung was not a regular beingness connected tv similar immoderate of Trump's different aides, helium has worked with the erstwhile president successful a communications relation for years, having served connected Trump's 2016 and 2020 campaigns.

Cheung besides did a stint arsenic a apical communications authoritative for The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), a league headed up by Trump state Dana White. The run spokesperson is known for his combative beingness connected societal media.

The president-elect has yet to sanction a property secretary, which is simply a much forward-facing relation successful the White House. Campaign nationalist property caput Karoline Leavitt is widely viewed arsenic the front-runner for that position.

Politico first reported connected Cheung's expected role.

Cheung becomes the latest long-time run aide to unafraid a relation successful Trump's White House. Trump announced earlier this week that Dan Scavino, Stephen Miller, James Blair and Taylor Budowich would each instrumentality elder unit roles successful the White House aft playing salient roles connected the run trail.