Dan Scavino

Profile Overview

Daniel Joseph Scavino Jr. (born January 14, 1976) is an American political advisor and former golf club manager who has served as the director of the White House Presidential Personnel Office since October 2025 and the White House deputy chief of staff since January 2025. Scavino served as the White House deputy chief of staff for communications from 2020 to 2021, as the senior advisor for digital strategy from 2019 to 2021, and as the White House director of social media from 2017 to 2019.
Scavino studied speech communication at the State University of New York, Plattsburgh, graduating in 1998. After graduating, he worked for The Coca-Cola Company and the pharmaceutical company Galderma. In January 2004, Scavino became the assistant manager of Trump National Golf Club Westchester. He was promoted to the club's general manager two years later and appointed as its executive vice president in 2008. Scavino joined Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign as an aide in June 2015, later becoming the campaign's director of social media. He retained his position in Trump's first presidency. In April 2019, he became the senior advisor for digital strategy. The following year, he was appointed as the deputy chief of staff for communications by chief of staff Mark Meadows.
After Trump's loss in the 2020 presidential election, Scavino remained with him at Mar-a-Lago and assisted him politically. The House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol subpoenaed Scavino in September 2021; for evading the committee, the House of Representatives voted to hold Scavino in contempt of Congress in April 2022, though the Department of Justice declined to prosecute him after he negotiated the terms of the subpoena. By January 2023, Scavino had joined Trump's 2024 presidential campaign. In November 2024, Trump named Scavino as his deputy chief of staff. After Sergio Gor was confirmed as the U.S. ambassador to India in October 2025, Trump appointed Scavino as the head of the White House Presidential Personnel Office.