Chicago – January 30, 2026
President Donald Trump’s pick to be the US deputy representative to the United Nations, former Fox News contributor Tammy Bruce, for years promoted inflammatory, anti-Muslim and conspiratorial claims, including suggesting that former President Barack Obama was a secret Muslim bent on harming America.
A CNN KFile review of Bruce’s blog posts, social media posts, columns and radio commentaries starting in the early 2000s shows a pattern of demeaning language about Muslims, including suggesting that American Muslims needed to prove their loyalty after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Other comments targeted Muslim-majority countries Bruce would have to work with at the UN.
Many of these statements were published between the early 2000s and late 2010s on her personal blog, which is no longer online. But they were preserved through the Internet Archive and independent watchdog groups that monitor conservative media.
Bruce, currently the chief spokesperson for the State Department, was nominated for the high-level diplomatic post in August. Her nomination was formally sent to the Senate in September, and her confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is scheduled for Wednesday.
