Michael Anton
Michael Anton | |
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Official portrait, 2025 | |
| 33rd Director of Policy Planning | |
| In office January 20, 2025 – September 15, 2025 | |
| President | Donald Trump |
| Preceded by | Salman Ahmed |
| Succeeded by | Michael Needham |
| 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 |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1969 (age 56–57) |
| Party | Republican |
| Education | University of California, Davis (BA) St. John's College, Annapolis (MALA) Claremont Graduate University (MA) |
Michael Anton (born 1969) is a conservative writer and bureaucrat.
Anton wrote under a pseudonym "The Flight 93 Election," an influential essay in support of Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign. He was a speechwriter for Rupert Murdoch, a director of communications at Citigroup, and a managing director at BlackRock. He lectured at Hillsdale College, and still is a Claremont Institute senior fellow. He contributed to Project 2025.
Anton was the director of policy planning in the second Trump administration, and deputy assistant for strategic communications on the National Security Council during the first. He wrote speeches for Rudy Giuliani, and for Condoleezza Rice at the National Security Council under George W. Bush. Anton also worked for California governor Pete Wilson.