Meet Elizabeth Pipko, the MAGA-loving bikini model who’s the GOP’s sexiest new spokeswoman
This MAGA-loving bikini model is suiting up to support Donald Trump — trading the pool for the podium as she lends her ample assets to the Republican National Committee as a new spokeswoman.
Elizabeth Pipko, a 28-year-old born-and-bred Manhattanite, told The Post she’s happy to trade her signature “New York uniform of dark black” for red, white and blue as she helps the rebranded RNC try to re-elect the former president in November.
“The things he’s been through have been unreal. A lot of people look at what he’s up against every day and see his real character,” the Sports Illustrated beauty gushed about Trump, 77.
The RNC, which said it acts as “one unified operation” with the Trump campaign, underwent a major overhaul in March after the ouster of longtime chair Ronna McDaniel.
New co-chairs Michael Whatley and Trump daughter-in-law, Lara Trump have since overseen a significant staffing shake-up that reportedly included some 60 axed employees.
The committee’s current laser focus is on fundraising, beefing up what Trump calls “election integrity” and mounting the “most aggressive early voter turnout campaign ever” in the critical months leading up to the expected nail-biter election Nov. 5 as Trump leads President Biden in key battleground states in new polls.
Pipko, the daughter of Jewish Russian immigrants who fled religious persecution, said she considers herself the embodiment of the American dream — and can’t wait to make “a difference.
“This is one of the biggest elections in this country’s history,” said the self-described “proud religious Jew,” whose resume includes nabbing Ivy League degrees from Harvard and Penn universities and publishing three books.
“Only in this country can a daughter of immigrants who arrived here with nothing get a chance to make some kind of a difference like this. So when you get that chance, you take it.”
Pipko recalled her first trip to the nation’s capital as a young girl and “staring at the White House for six hours,” a reflection of her “obsession with America.”
She said she has been modeling since she was 17, when she signed with the powerhouse agency Wilhelmina, leading to racy features in Maxim, Esquire and Sports Illustrated.
She is also a model of moxie – proudly baring it all and coming out of the fashion closet as a Trump supporter in 2019, eventually damaging her career in a left-leaning industry.
“I lost everything – all of my connections,” including agents, bookers, photographers and friends, Pipko said.
She said that after finding her way back into the industry, she can’t decide which is more cutthroat: modeling or politics.
“I tell people my modeling career prepared me for politics, as they’re both equally brutal,” Pipko said, noting that those with sharp cheekbones and even sharper elbows in modeling groomed her for the political swamp. “Every world I’ve been in is cutthroat.”
She worked her way up from being a Trump campaign volunteer to paid aide during his successful 2016 run, then moved on to political activism as a founder of Exodus Movement, a PAC fighting antisemitism.
The model got married at Mar-a-Lago in December 2018 to Darren Centinello, who she met on the 2016 Trump campaign. Centinello currently works for the Trump campaign.
Pipko said haters who discount and underestimate her because of her looks only fuel her.
“I’ve always been the kind of person who wanted to prove people wrong,” she said.
Asked the burning question that every political observer wants the answer to – who will be Trump’s running mate — Pipko only said, “He’s very big on people earning their way into things.”
She said Trump himself has earned the respect of a widespread demographic, charming starstruck hardhats at construction sites, Bronx bodega workers and Big Apple Bravest while in town for his hush-money trial.
“New Yorkers are real people – they see through everything that’s going on,” she said.
Pipko said she has faith that the American people will cut through what she called Soviet-style tactics to snuff out a political rival.
“But I think it’s less about him and what they’re doing to him and how this has happened in the greatest country in the world,” Pipko said of Trump critics including prosecutors targeting him in four criminal cases. “I think back to everything my parents told me about the former Soviet Union. It’s insane to think that this is basically what we’ve become in front of my eyes.
“I grew up listening to their stories thinking it could never happen in the US, and yet here we are,” she said.
Pipko said that even though swampy DC is her “least favorite place,” she’d be more than happy to return to celebrate a victorious Trump return to the White House.
“I don’t think there’s a day when I haven’t loved America,” Pipko said.
She added that she is more than happy to bust tedious personal stereotypes along the way.
“Any time you accomplish anything, there will always be people who will say to your face, ‘You probably only got that because of your looks,’ ” Pipko said.
But she said she doesn’t lose beauty sleep over it.
“I’m true to myself. I know I’m a lot more than what people think about me.”
Lara Trump said in a statement to The Post, “At a time when patriotism among young Americans sits at record lows, we are lucky to have great Americans like Elizabeth Pipko on our team — she will help to inspire the next generation, rebuild the grand old party, and bring our country back.”
