Michael Anton
| Michael Anton | |
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| Deputy Assistant to the President for Strategic Communications | |
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Assumed office February 8, 2017 |
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| President | Donald Trump |
| Preceded by | Ben Rhodes |
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| Born | 1970 (age 46–47) |
| Education |
St. John's College (MALA) Claremont Graduate University (MA) |
Michael Anton (born 1970) is a senior national security official in the Trump administration. He is best known for his pseudonymous essays written during the 2016 Presidential campaign in which he supported Donald Trump and collaborated on the pro-Trump Journal of American Greatness blog. Anton was named Deputy Assistant to the President for Strategic Communications on the United States National Security Council. He is a former speechwriter for Rudy Giuliani and George W. Bush’s National Security Council, and most recently worked as managing director of investing firm BlackRock.
Anton received his undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley before earning advanced degrees from St. John's College and Claremont Graduate University.
He wrote 'The Suit' under the pseudonym 'Nicholas Antongiavanni' as a parody of Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince.
In a March 2016 essay written under the pseudonym Publius Decius Mus, Anton defended the America First Committee which had opposed the U.S. engaging in World War II, and said Islam "is a militant faith" and that "only an insane society" would take in Muslim immigrants after the September 11 attacks.
His pseudonymous September 2016 editorial "The Flight 93 Election" compared the prospect of conservatives letting Hillary Clinton win with passengers not charging the cockpit of the Al Qaeda-hijacked flight. According to commentator Jonathan Chait, Anton's editorial made the claim that a Trump defeat in the 2016 U.S. presidential election would have meant "the end of white America".
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