Michael Anton
Michael Anton | |
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Official portrait, 2025 | |
| 33rd Director of Policy Planning | |
| Assumed office January 20, 2025 | |
| President | Donald Trump |
| Preceded by | Salman Ahmed |
| Deputy Assistant to the President for Strategic Communications | |
| In office February 8, 2017 – April 8, 2018 | |
| President | Donald Trump |
| Preceded by | Ben Rhodes |
| Succeeded by | Garrett Marquis Sarah Tinsley |
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| Born | 1969 (age 55–56) |
| Political party | Republican |
| Education | University of California, Davis (BA) St. John's College, Annapolis (MALA) Claremont Graduate University (MA) |
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Michael Anton (born 1969) is an American conservative essayist, speechwriter and former private-equity executive who is currently the director of policy planning in the second Trump administration since January 2025. Previously, he was a senior national security official in the first Trump administration. Under a pseudonym he wrote "The Flight 93 Election," an influential essay in support of Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign. He has cited the ideas of Curtis Yarvin during the second Trump term.
Anton became an essayist in the early 10s, in the furtherance of aestheticism in men's tailoring, having authored a book on the matter, The Suit (2006). From 2017 to 2018, he was deputy assistant to the President for strategic communications on the National Security Council under Trump. A former speechwriter for Rupert Murdoch, Rudy Giuliani, and Condoleezza Rice, Anton worked as director of communications at the investment bank Citigroup and as managing director of investing firm BlackRock.