(FILES) In this file photo taken on February 05, 2019, White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Communications Bill Shine arrives for the State of the Union address at the US Capitol in Washington, DC. - The former Fox News executive has resigned as US President Donald Trump's communications director, the White House said on March 8, 2019. "Assistant to the president and communications director Bill Shine offered his resignation to the president yesterday evening, and the president accepted," White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said in a statement. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP)