Who is Kayleigh McEnany? Flash Uganda Media looks at her biography, age, husband, family, tribe, achievements, and relationship with Sean Gilmartin, Michael McEnany, Leanne McEnany, Ryann Jessica McEnany, Michael McEnany, Blake Avery Gilmartin, Nash Gilmartin and the early life and education of American television journalist, conservative political commentator, producer and author.
Kayleigh McEnany is an American television journalist, conservative political commentator, producer and author.
McEnany currently works as a host and commentator on Fox News Channel (FNC).
She served as the 33rd White House press secretary during the Donald Trump administration.
McEnany joined Fox News as an on-air contributor after leaving the White House. She co-hosts the Fox News Channel programme Outnumbered.
Net Worth
According to Celebrity Net Worth, Kayleigh McEnany’s estimated net worth as of 2023 is $1 million.
McEnany came from a wealthy background. Her father was a prosperous businessman who managed multiple real estate properties in addition to a commercial roofing company.
McEnany received a $900,000 inheritance from her family, but she worked hard and was dedicated to her career to succeed on her own.
Nevertheless, she also inherited a variety of assets from her father, including a $6 million Manhattan duplex apartment, a $2.1 million penthouse in Miami, and a $3.5 million Boston brownstone.
One of McEnany’s most valuable real estate holdings is a vast 1,500-acre ranch that she inherited from her grandfather, McEnany Meadows.
Early Life and Education
Kayleigh McEnany was born on April 18, 1988, in Tampa, Florida, USA and grew up there.
She is the daughter of Michael McEnany, the owner of McEnany Roofing, a commercial roofing company, and Leanne McEnany, a housewife and former legal secretary.
Kayleigh has two siblings. Ryann Jessica McEnany, her younger sister, and her brother Michael McEnany, a doctor by profession.
She had a strong interest in journalism since she was young and wanted to pursue a career in it.
McEnany went to the Tampa-based private Catholic preparatory school, the Academy of the Holy Names.
She attended Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service in Washington, D.C., to study international politics.
She then attended Oxford University’s St. Edmund Hall to study politics and international relations as well.
McEnany worked as a producer on the Mike Huckabee Show for three years following his Georgetown graduation.
McEnany spent a year as an undergraduate student at the University Of Miami School Of Law before moving to Harvard Law School.
In 2016, she received her Harvard degree.
Family and Personal Life
In November 2017, Kayleigh McEnany got married to Major League Baseball pitcher Sean Gilmartin.
The couple is parents to two kids.
In November 2019, Blake Avery Gilmartin, a daughter, was born.
In 2018, McEnany had a preventive double mastectomy because of a BRCA mutation that increased her risk of breast cancer.
She revealed that she was expecting her second child in June 2022. McEnany gave birth to Nash Gilmartin, a boy, in December 2022.
Career and Professional Work Experience
During the 2016 presidential election cycle, Kayleigh McEnany started her political career as a CNN cable news commentator.
She had worked as an intern for a number of politicians while attending college, including George W. Bush, Adam Putnam, and Tom Gallagher. Later, she was employed in the White House Office of Communications, where she prepared media briefings.
Kayleigh was a CNN commentator that aired every night on the network’s primetime shows and during the 2016 election.
Prior to joining CNN, Kayleigh frequently featured on Fox News and Fox Business shows, as well as ABC’s, The View. Her first broadcast appearance occurred in 2011.
Kayleigh wrote a column for Above the Law and contributed to The Hill in addition to her work on television.
She backed Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign despite her initial criticism of him.
McEnany departed from her role at CNN on August 5, 2017.
On Trump’s personal Facebook page the next day, she presented a 90-second webcast called Real News Update.
Throughout the interview, she complimented Trump and said that she had given the American people the “real news”.
McEnany was named national spokesperson for the Republican National Committee (RNC) on August 7, 2017.
On April 7, 2020, Trump appointed McEnany to succeed Stephanie Grisham as the White House press secretary. This position was held by her until January 2021 when Trump left office.
Before that, she served as national press secretary for the Trump 2020 campaign from 2019 to 2020 and then as a senior advisor from October 2020 to January 2021.
Fox News Channel Career
McEnany began contributing to Fox News on-air on March 2, 2021.
Later on, she was added to the Outnumbered cast as a co-host with Harris Faulkner and Emily Compagno.
She filled in as Fox News Tonight’s interim host in May and June 2023 after Tucker Carlson was fired.
She is a primary guest host for The Ingraham Angle, Jesse Watters Primetime, The Five, and Fox & Friends in addition to co-hosting Outnumbered.
Other Ventures
Kayleigh McEnany is also an author. She has so far published two books with Simon & Schuster;
“The New American Revolution: The Making of a Populist Movement. New York” which she released on January 9, 2018.
“For Such a Time as This: My Faith Journey through the White House and Beyond” which she released on December 7, 2021.
Achievements and Awards
McEnany received the Bruce J. Winick Award for Excellence at the Miami School of Law, which is given to students who rank in the top 1% of their class.
Over the course of her career in politics and the media, Kayleigh McEnany has amassed an impressive amount of wealth and success.
She became well-known in the 2016 election by regularly showing up on cable news networks as a Trump surrogate.
During the Trump administration, Kayleigh McEnany held the esteemed position of White House Press Secretary, making history as the fourth woman and first mother to hold this position.
Controversies
Since her time in college, McEnany has maintained a close relationship with the Republican Party.
She was critical of the Obama administration and, in 2012, she echoed the “birther” conspiracy theorist movement by tweeting multiple times, casting doubt on Barack Obama’s place of birth.
Regarding Obama’s half-brother Malik Obama, who resides in Kenya, McEnany tweeted in 2012, saying, “How I Met Your Brother – Never mind, forgot he’s still in that hut in Kenya”.
Two months into her job as press secretary for the White House, Kayleigh McEnany made it plain that she was prepared to stand up for everything Trump believed and said.
She declared that “this president has always sided on the side of data” in reference to Trump’s reactions to the coronavirus pandemic.
McEnany responded to claims of sexual misconduct made against Trump by saying, “He has always told the truth.”
McEnany made a false claim that President Trump had been completely cleared of any wrongdoing as a result of the Mueller Report, which was part of a larger investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
While providing no proof to back up Trump’s baseless allegation that Joe Scarborough had someone killed, McEnany supported the false allegation in May 2020.
In the same month, McEnany repeated Trump’s false accusations that voting by mail has a “high propensity for voter fraud” and defended his remarks regarding the risks associated with it.
She supported the Trump administration’s decision in June 2020 to use pepper balls, smoke canisters, riot shields, batons, mounted police, and rubber bullets to drive out peaceful protestors so that Trump could set up a photo op in Washington.
On Election Day, while ballots were still being counted, McEnany prematurely declared Trump’s victory. False allegations of election fraud were disseminated by McEnany following Joe Biden’s victory and Trump’s refusal to accept the results.
McEnany made up the claim that Trump did not receive an “orderly transition of power” on November 20, 2020.
McEnany’s statement was made while Trump was actively postponing the handover of power to President-elect Biden for a period of two weeks and was refusing to acknowledge Biden’s victory as legitimate.
Donald Trump chastised Kayleigh McEnany in May 2023.
Trump said that McEnany had misrepresented the margin of a poll that put him ahead in the Republican presidential contest of 2024.
Trump claimed to be 34 points ahead of DeSanctimonious rather than 25 as Kayleigh had read on Fox News.
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