Buckle up, White House press corps. Things are about to become way different from how things have been with Karine Jean-Pierre!
On Friday night, President-Elect Donald Trump named longtime aide and Trump 2024 campaign spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt as the incoming White House press secretary and set to do battle with the liberal journalists in the Brady Briefing Room come January 20, 2025.
Trump praised her in a statement as having done “a phenomenal job as the National Press Secretary on my Historic Campaign.”
Adding she’s “smart, tough, and has proven to be a highly effective communicator,” Trump stated he has “the utmost confidence she will excel at the podium, and help deliver our message to the American People as we, Make America Great Again.”
Leavitt not only spoke on behalf of President Trump on conservative networks, but she also sparred with liberal journalists and anchors on networks such as CNN and the news streaming platforms for ABC and NBC.
Most infamously, Leavitt had a June 24 appearance on CNN This Morning cut short for the crime of upsetting host Kasie Hunt by referring to then-upcoming presidential debate co-moderators Dana Bash and Jake Tapper as liberal journalists.
The Briefing Room will be familiar territory for the 27-year-old Leavitt as she not only interned in the first Trump administration, but also served as an assistant White House press secretary under Trump’s fourth press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany.
In the Biden transition, Leavitt was communications director for Congresswoman Elise Stefanik (R-NY) and, for the 2022 election, she ran as the Republican candidate for a House seat in her home state of New Hampshire.
So, having witnessed McEnany masterfully go into battle with the liberal media, Leavitt will undoubtedly be ready for the nonsense, constructive, and even, yes, good-faith questions from the press.
Exit question: Who will be Leavitt’s chief antagonist like CNN’s Jim Acosta was for McEnany and predecessors Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Sean Spicer?
