Alyssa Farah Griffin was the White House director of strategic communications and Assistant to the President in 2020 during the presidency of Donald Trump. In addition to appearing on CNN as a commentator, she is a co-host of the talk show The View, for which she received a nomination for a Daytime Emmy Award.
Griffin was press secretary for U.S. Vice President Mike Pence and special assistant to President Donald Trump from October 2017 to September 2019. In 2019, she was appointed the youngest press secretary of The Pentagon in history.[2] She served as deputy assistant to the secretary of defense for public affairs and the press secretary for the United States Department of Defense from 2019 to 2020.