President Donald Trump has chosen Karoline Leavitt to be his White House press secretary, meaning the longtime Trump advocate will soon be the youngest White House press secretary in history, and one of the administration’s most visible figures.
As national press secretary, Leavitt, 27, spent much of the 2024 race as the public-facing spokesperson for the Trump campaign.
Though her childhood dream was to become a broadcast reporter, upon graduating in 2019, Leavitt got an internship at the White House under the Trump administration, working her way up to the job of assistant press secretary to fight against the biased mainstream media.
“Say what you want about Donald Trump,” she wrote at the time. “He is certainly not perfect, but he is without question running against not only a crooked candidate but the crooked and biased media as well. The liberal media is unjust, unfair, and sometimes just plain old false.”
“The reality is the liberal Democrat policies of this administration and Joe Biden are making life completely unaffordable for Generation Z Americans,” she said. “My goal, as a Generation Z conservative, is to speak that truth and bring people to our side of the aisle.”
She was hired as the Trump campaign’s national press secretary shortly after learning she was pregnant with her first child.
She gave birth to her son three days before a gunman opened fire at a Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, in what the FBI determined to be an assassination attempt against him, and decided to return to work just days later. “I looked at my husband and said, ‘looks like I’m going back to work’”.