Helen Aguirre Ferré

Aguirre Ferré was an op-ed columnist for the Miami Herald. She hosted a Spanish-language talk radio show on Univision America until 2015.

Aguirre Ferré was senior adviser to Jeb Bush's presidential campaign in 2016. In June 2016, Aguirre Ferré was named Hispanic communications director for the Republican Party.

Aguirre Ferré was named to the Florida Women's Hall of Fame in 2016.

Repeated criticism of Trump

Aguirre Ferré has been a harsh critic of President Donald Trump. "There’s a side of Donald Trump that is anti-feminine. I’m not going to tell you he’s a misogynist … but I do think there’s something that bothers him about strong and independent women,” she said in April 2016. "In the case of abortion, Donald Trump held every viewpoint possible … including supporting partial-birth abortion, something even many who are pro-choice oppose," she said of Trump the same month.

Trump "babbling more than usual," Aguirre Ferré tweeted during a Republican presidential debate on February 13, 2016. She criticized New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's and U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions' decision to endorse Trump, tweeting on February 29, 2016, "Wonder if Chris Christie and Senator Sessions now regret supporting Trump or do means justify the end? Telling either way." Following a violent protest at a Trump rally in Chicago, she blamed Trump for the violence, tweeting "Thank you! Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio agree that Trump bears responsibility for violence in Chicago today." On September 10, 2015, she tweeted that "women and country deserve better" than Trump.

On January 19, 2017, it was announced that she would be special assistant to the president and director of media affairs for the Trump administration.

Aguirre Ferré was born in Miami, to Nicaraguan parents. She is the daughter-in-law of former Miami mayor Maurice Ferré.