Grisham, 42, has sometimes adopted a sharp tone in her statements ? something traditionally not seen from the East Wing but in tune with the often confrontational stance of the Trump White House’s press operations.
When the president went after MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski in the summer of 2017, claiming falsely in a tweet that she was “bleeding badly from a facelift,” Grisham defended Trump: “When [he] gets attacked, he will punch back 10 times harder.”