# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mercedes-schlapp
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:06:28.074Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mercedes-schlapp"
name: "Mercedes Schlapp"
slug: "mercedes-schlapp"
description: "Mercedes Schlapp is an American communications specialist and political commentator for both English and Spanish media. She has served in two presidential administrations as director of specialty media under George W. Bush and as White House Director of Strategic Communications in the Trump administration from September 2017 to July 2019. She went on to work on the Trump 2020 re-election campaign as senior advisor for strategic communications."
tagline: "American lobbyist and columnist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mercedes_Schlapp_by_Gage_Skidmore_2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1972-12-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.09
  momentum:             0.6856776674142904
  historical:           6.253393333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/mercedesschlapp"
    handle:    "mercedesschlapp"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/mercedesschlapp/"
    handle:    "mercedesschlapp"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2800693/"
    handle:    "nm2800693"
sources:
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes_Schlapp"
    title: "Mercedes Schlapp"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%B3_%D8%B4%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A8"
    title: "ميرسيدس شلاب"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes_Schlappov%C3%A1"
    title: "Mercedes Schlappová"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes_Schlapp"
    title: "Mercedes Schlapp"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes_Schlapp"
    title: "Mercedes Schlapp"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes_Schlapp"
    title: "Mercedes Schlapp"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24572768"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2803945"
    title: "Mercedes Schlapp"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump