Karoline Leavitt is acceptable connected Tuesday to preside implicit her archetypal briefing with reporters arsenic property caput for President Trump’s White House.
Leavitt was Trump's apical spokesperson on the 2024 run way and has been 1 of his main messengers during the aboriginal days of his 2nd administration.
Here are 4 things to cognize astir Leavitt up of her archetypal briefing.
Leavitt is the youngest idiosyncratic to ever service successful the relation
Leavitt, 27, is the youngest idiosyncratic to clasp the presumption of property caput since Ron Ziegler, who worked arsenic President Nixon’s apical property authoritative and was 29 erstwhile helium was hired.
She was wide viewed arsenic the favourite to onshore the property caput gig.
Several erstwhile Trump officials told The Hill aft she was hired that Leavitt was the evident choice, fixed her grounds defending Trump connected the run way and adjacent narration with the president.
On Tuesday, she volition beryllium tasked with defending a flood of enforcement orders and actions handed down during Trump's archetypal week successful bureau and promoting the administration's docket earlier what is expected to beryllium a wide televised audience.
Leavitt has teased a briefing country shingle up
Like different apical allies of the president, Leavitt has suggested the White House could alteration the mode concern successful the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room is conducted oregon who gets to inquire questions during property conferences.
Leavitt has said during a fig of media appearances she looks guardant to taking questions from mainstream media reporters and volition not beryllium shy astir pushing backmost connected assertions oregon premises she disagrees with.
“We anticipation determination volition beryllium decorum, certainly, and we volition effort to instill that,” she said during a Fox News quality past month. “But we’re not shy of the hostile media.”
Leavitt worked successful Trump's archetypal White House
Before joining Trump’s 2024 campaign, Leavitt was a apical adjutant to Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), different Trump state whom helium chose to service arsenic ambassador to the United Nations.
Leavitt served arsenic a property adjutant and speechwriter for Trump during his archetypal medication nether erstwhile property caput Kayleigh McEnany, who is present a Fox News host. McEnany has spoken glowingly astir Leavitt's fittingness for the role.
On Tuesday, Leavitt volition find herself successful the nationalist spotlight arsenic Trump's presidency enters its 2nd week.
Leavitt ran for Congress
After moving successful Trump's archetypal White House, Leavitt ran an unsuccessful 2022 run for New Hampshire’s 1st District, aft winning a contested GOP primary.
A pro-life Catholic who echoed overmuch of Trump's "America First" messaging arsenic she ran for office, Leavitt is intimately aligned with the priorities of the caller medication and is seen arsenic 1 of the faces of a caller question of Trump-friendly figures successful media and politics.
Her archetypal briefing with reporters comes arsenic the White House looks to unafraid backing from Congress connected a fig of cardinal issues similar migration and the economy.