Cliff Sims

Cliff Sims

Cliff Sims (born February 17, 1984 in Enterprise) is a media assistant to President Donald Trump, the founding publisher of the Yellowhammer News, and former CEO of Yellowhammer Multimedia.

Sims is the son of Dwayne and Brenda Sims of Enterprise. He attended Delta State University in Cleveland, Mississippi, where he was a member of the Statesmen basketball team and also played at Enterprise-Ozark Community College. He later enrolled at the University of Alabama where he chaired the College Republicans chapter and began contributing political reports to the conservative website, "The Daily Caller". During the 2010 election he chaired Alabama State Representative Barry Moore's campaign in his home county.

Sims began publishing a weblog called "Yellowhammer" in 2011, and expanded it into a news site in 2013. The site has been seen as a counterpoint to the Alabama Education Association-backed Alabama Political Reporter and has been noted for its overarching support for and access to Alabama State House of Representatives Speaker Mike Hubbard. Notably, Yellowhammer obtained recordings of Governor Robert Bentley's inappropriate conversations with his aide, Rebekah Caldwell Mason from an undisclosed source and made them available online. Sims appears regularly as host of "Yellowhammer Radio" on WYDE-FM.

In 2016 Sims took a leave of absence from his media company to serve as an adviser to Donald Trump's presidential campaign. After the inauguration in January 2017, Sims was appointed as assistant communications director for White House message strategy and special assistant to the president. Brian Ellis took over as CEO of Yellowhammer.

Sims and his wife, Megan, reside in Homewood and attend The Church at Brook Hills.

References

• "Birmingham media CEO joining Trump campaign as adviser" (September 29, 2016) Birmingham Business Journal
• West, Ty (January 19, 2017) "Yellowhammer CEO to take role in Trump White House." Birmingham Business Journal