President Donald Trump has announced he is nominating State Department spokeswoman and former Fox TV news anchor Heather Nauert to be the United States’s ambassador to the United Nations.
“Heather Nauert will be nominated,” Trump said on Friday, before departing the White House for an event in Kansas City.
“She is very talented, very smart, very quick and I think that she will be respected by all.”
Current envoy Nikki Haley announced in October she would be leaving the UN post at the end of the year.
The 48-year-old Nauert, whose nomination would require Senate confirmation, became the State Department’s spokeswoman in April 2017 and was named earlier this year as the acting undersecretary for public diplomacy and public affairs.
She has been touted for the post since November.
He added: “She’s excellent, she’s been with us a long time, she’s been a supporter for a long time, really – excellent.”
The State Department declined to comment and Nauert did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
