At 27, she will become the youngest press secretary in the White House. He is the main face of the administration’s press conferences, although Trump decided not to offer them regularly last term.
The newly elected President of the United States, Donald Trump, on Friday appointed Karoline Leavitt as White House spokesperson, who was the face of his campaign as spokesperson and was also part of the White House communications team during his first term (2017). . 2021).
“Karoline Leavitt has done an exceptional job as national press spokesperson for my historic campaign, and I am pleased to announce that she will be the White House spokesperson,” Trump said in a statement.
The president described Leavitt as “smart” and “tough” and said she “has proven to be an extremely effective communicator.”
When Trump takes office on January 20, 2025, that will be Leavitt The youngest press secretary in the White House at 27 years. Before her, Ron Ziegler, 29, was a spokesman during Richard Nixon’s presidency (1969-1974).
Leavitt worked as a press aide in the first Trump administration and ran for Congress in New Hampshire in 2022. He won the Republican primary in the 1st District, but lost to Democrat Chris Pappas in the general election.
The position of press secretary is one of the most important in the White House, as the person who holds it becomes the most important face of the administration and has the duty to answer questions from journalists at press conferences that sometimes become quite combative.
Under Joe Biden’s administration, there were almost daily press conferences, just like under the administrations of Barack Obama (2009-2017) and George W. Bush (2001-2009).
During his time in the White House, Trump, who has maintained a contentious relationship with the press and has called the media “enemies of the people” and “fake news,” ordered his communications team breaking with the tradition of daily press conferences.
As a result, press conferences under the Trump era became sporadic, depending on which press secretary was serving at the time. In fact, a record of more than 300 days without spokesperson appearances was set between March 2019 and January 2020.
Source: EITB
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