President-elect Donald J. Trump has made history by announcing he'll appoint campaign manager Susie Wiles to the esteemed position of White House chief of staff.
She'll be the first female to ever serve in the role.
Though the mainstream media would never tell you, it's not the first time Trump has appointed a woman to a high-ranking national position.
Trump has already confirmed that he will appoint Rep. Elise Stefanik as ambassador to the United Nations. He also supported his daughter-in-law Lara Trump's election to serve as co-chair of the Republican National Committee, where she helped shatter records with the highest popular vote in Republican history.
He has supported former policy adviser Brooke Rollins who now heads up the conservative think tank, America First Policy Institute.
One cannot forget that Trump also hired conservative Kellyanne Conway, who became the first female campaign manager in American history to win a presidential election.
He also has a history of appointing women to top roles in the Trump business organization.
However, on the face of it Trump never really got credit for the record number of women he appointed in senior roles during his first term in office.
The truth is Trump appointed more females in the West Wing than his predecessors Presidents Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush.
In fact, women's organizations critiqued Clinton for not having enough women at the table and for failing to appoint a Cabinet that "looks like America." Clinton did not react kindly to the criticism, taking to "berating women's groups" and accusing them of playing a silly "quota game."
No quotas have been needed for President Trump.
The list of female appointees to Cabinet positions and senior White House positions in Trump's first term was extensive and read like a roll call of the left's gender-and-racial identity boxes. Yet still no accolades from the liberal media.
The list included figures such as: Nikki Haley, ambassador to the United Nations (not only a woman but also child of Indian American Sikh immigrants); Elaine Chao, transportation secretary (Asian-American); Kirstjen Nielsen, secretary of the Department of Homeland Security; Heather Wilson, secretary of the Air Force; Sarah Huckabee Sanders, White House press secretary; Kellyanne Conway, counselor to the president; Linda McMahon, administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration; Betsy DeVos, education secretary; Jovita Carranza, U.S. treasurer (also a minority and first-generation Mexican American immigrant); Neomi Rao, regulation czar (also a minority and daughter of parents from India); Seema Verma, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (also a minority); Heather Brand, associate attorney general; Kelly Sadler, director of Surrogate & Coalitions Outreach; Mercedes Schlapp, senior communications adviser (a Hispanic female whose father was once a political prisoner of Fidel Castro); Ivanka Trump, adviser to the president; Hope Hicks, communications cirector; Jessica Ditto, deputy director of communications; and Dina Powell, deputy national security adviser.
Trump's placement of women in senior White House roles during his first term was nothing short of impressive.
There is zero doubt he will repeat this empowerment of women in his second term.
There is also little doubt the left will give him the credit he deserves for doing so.
Jennifer Kelly is the author of the forthcoming book, "The Real War on Women: Time’s Up for Radical Feminism and the Democrats' Liberal, Progressive, Socialist Agenda," and is host of the new nationally-syndicated show, ''All-American Radio with Jennifer Kelly.'' Read Jennifer Kelly's Reports — More Here.
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