Alyssa Farah Griffin’s remarkable rise up the United States’ political ladder continued in April 2020 when she was appointed as the White House Director of Strategic Communications. “The best part of working in the Trump White House is that there’s no such thing as an average day. Every day brings something new and exciting,” the Patrick Henry College graduate told her former school, adding, “In my role, I serve in a sort of dual hatted role of helping message day-of events, breaking news, announcements, as well as overseeing strategic planning for days and weeks out.”
In a baptism of fire, however, Griffin also had to immediately deal with Donald Trump’s response to the coronavirus. She helped to shape the message strategy for Warp Speed, the operation designed to find and deliver a vaccination program as quickly as possible. But unfortunately, she couldn’t prevent the 45th president’s unsafe and highly criticized recommendation to inject bleach to combat the virus, as she later recalled to the January 6 House select committee.
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Referring to the Department of Homeland Security report that suggested various possible COVID-19 remedies, Griffin recalled (via The Hill), “I tried to stop it outside of the Oval Office, because I knew the President was willing to go on national television, have not been able to properly digest what the report was indicating, and say something stupid or dangerous to the public.” She added, “I went to Mark Meadows, and I said, ‘Sir, this is going to blow up in our faces.’ … Meadows overruled me.”
