Former President Donald Trump’s campaign spokesman Stephen Chan speaks to reporters across the street from former President Trump’s criminal trial in New York on May 28.
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Stephen Chan, the aggressive Trump campaign’s communications director, will head to the White House to become communications director, the president-elect announced Friday.
Chung, a former spokesperson for the Ultimate Fighting Championship, a popular mixed martial arts league, brought a cage fighter mentality to speaking on behalf of Trump on the campaign trail.
For example, during the campaign, Chan issued a statement calling Vice President Harris a “heartless loser” and blaming her comments for the assassination attempt on Trump.
he wrote with the writer for many years washington post Journalist Bob Woodward was “a truly insane and deranged man suffering from a debilitating case of Trump Derangement Syndrome,” and the insults continued from there.
Chan has always blamed the backlash against President Trump’s comments on “Trump Derangement Syndrome” as a way to deflect controversy. When President Trump said in the final stages of the 2024 election campaign that he wouldn’t be too concerned if an assassin came out to shoot at reporters to get to him, Mr. Chan said he was not trying to get anyone shot. He said no.
He said President Trump had suggested that the media should also be surrounded by bulletproof glass. “There can be no other interpretation of what was said,” Chong said in a campaign statement. “He actually cared more about their well-being than himself!”
Despite his hyperbolic public statements, Mr. Chan is a communications expert known for generally pragmatic relationships with reporters covering the Trump campaign.
Chan worked on both of Trump’s previous campaigns and worked in the White House for part of Trump’s first term. He grew up in Sacramento, California, and worked on several mainstream Republican campaigns before joining Trump.
