US President Donald Trump has nominated Tammy Bruce as the United States Deputy Representative to the United Nations, announcing the decision on Truth Social.
Currently serving as spokesperson for the US State Department, Bruce is expected to play a significant role in advancing and defending American interests at the UN.
According to the White House, her appointment is being viewed as an important step forward in US diplomatic policy, underscoring the administration’s focus on strengthening its representation in the world body.
Tammy K. Bruce (born August 20, 1962) is an American conservative radio host, author, and political commentator. She serves as spokesperson for the United States Department of State in the second Trump administration. Bruce has been an on-air contributor to Fox News and has also hosted Get Tammy Bruce on Fox Nation.
After leaving her formal education at 15, Bruce moved to Illinois and began a series of minor jobs. She moved back to Los Angeles and worked as a personal secretary for Brenda Benet until 1982. She later worked for Gloria Loring and her then-husband, Alan Thicke.
Bruce also worked in electronic publicity, creating video news releases and press kits to distribute to news organisations.
For seven years, Bruce served as president of the Los Angeles chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW) (1990–1996). She was the youngest woman at the time to lead a major chapter of NOW.
Bruce had been a Democrat and a liberal activist, but later became a conservative. In a 2010 op-ed, she wrote the following: "The real story of bigotry and intolerance is the fact that it lives and thrives on the left. As a gay woman who spent most of her adult life pushing the cart for liberal causes with liberal friends in a liberal city, I found that sexism, racism and homophobia are staples in the liberal world. The huge irony is liberals spend every ounce of energy promoting the notion that they are the banner carriers of individualism and personal freedom, yet the hammer comes down on anyone who dares not to conform to, or who dissents even in part from, the liberal agenda".
In January 2025, Donald Trump announced that Bruce would be named as spokesperson for the United States Department of State in his second administration.
In June 2025, Bruce received backlash from many America First supporters when she said that the US was "the greatest country on earth next to Israel".
Bruce made her film debut in the 2009 short feature film 2081, based on the Kurt Vonnegut short story, Harrison Bergeron. She also appeared in the 2011 documentary The Undefeated.