27-year-old Karoline Leavitt, whose appointment as the head of the press service of the White House was announced by President-elect Donald Trump, will become the youngest presidential spokesperson in the history of the United States.
This was reported by the Telegram channel of the russian BBC service.
Her predecessors as Trump's press secretary were often at odds with the press - as was President Trump himself, who began his first term in open conflict with journalists.
27-year-old Karoline Leavitt, who served as Trump's press secretary during his 2024 campaign, will become the youngest White House spokeswoman in US history.
At the same time, she already has experience working in the presidential press service: during Trump's first term, Leavitt was an assistant to the then press secretary of the President, Kayleigh McEnany.
As Trump said, he is confident that the "smart and tough" Leavitt "will do well on the tribune and help deliver our message to the American people about how we will make America great again." She has already proven herself as an effective communicator, the President-elect said.
Leavitt is a native of New Hampshire, New England. She studied communications and political science at St. Anselm’s Catholic College.
While still a student, she completed an internship at the Fox News channel. Leavitt joined the White House press office shortly after graduating from college in 2019. She began her career as a regular staff member and speechwriter before becoming an assistant press secretary, according to her official biography: "I helped McEnany prepare for briefings and battled the biased mainstream media."
As Leavitt said in an interview with Politico several years ago, her "first exposure to the world of the press" at the White House and at Fox News influenced her decision to pursue a career as a press secretary.
After being fired from the White House press office due to the end of Trump's presidential term, Leavitt served as director of public affairs for Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, whom Trump plans to appoint as the US representative to the United Nations.
Leavitt left that position to run for Congress, and in 2022 won the Republican nomination in her home state of New Hampshire, becoming the second member of her generation - Generation Z - to win the nomination. She lost the election, but, according to her, she gained important experience in public speaking.
Leavitt's political views, as declared on her campaign website for the congressional elections, largely coincide with Trump's position. In economic matters, she promised to "cut taxes" and "advocate free market policies", declared the need to strengthen border protection and "zero tolerance for illegal immigration", and advocated "completing the construction of the border wall".
In January 2024, Leavitt became a spokesperson for the Trump campaign.
And in January 2025, she will become the youngest spokesperson of the White House in the history of the United States. The previous record was held by Ron Ziegler. He was 29 when he became President Richard Nixon's press secretary in 1969.
A key duty of the press secretary of the White House is to conduct daily briefings for the correspondents of the presidential pool (however, there were no such briefings for several months during Trump's first presidential term). So reporters will soon see Leavitt at the iconic tribune in the White House briefing room, a place that has seen many dives, scuffles and conflicts between members of the press and officials in the first Trump administration.
During his first term as President, Trump changed several press secretaries.
Trump's first press secretary, Sean Spicer, was exposed for distorting the facts at his very first briefing on January 21, 2017, the day after Trump was sworn in. He told reporters that Trump's inauguration gathered near the White House the largest number of spectators in the history of the United States and even the world, which was contradicted by video recording. A Trump aide later called Spicer's statement "alternative facts."
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