White House Pers Secretary Karoline Leavitt held her first briefing on Tuesday and kicked it off with enormous changes in how she would make briefings.
Leavitt announced that two seats would usually be reserved for the White House staff 'new media' chairs – and those people could ask the first questions.
Traditionally, the Wire Service, The Associated Press, gets the first question – while the Association of De Witte Huis correspondents dictates which points of sale get which seats in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room.
On Tuesday, Mike Allen from Axios received the first question followed by Matthew Boyle, the old political correspondent for Breitbart, the right-wing outlet that was previously led by Trump strategist Steve Bannon.
Leavitt also announced that the Trump 2.0 administration would restore the press passes of 440 whose fits fit by the BIDEN administration 'were wrongly withdrawn'.
Leavitt, 27, wrote history when she took the stage on Tuesday – as the youngest press secretary in the country.
White House Pers Secretary Karoline Leavitt held her first briefing on Tuesday and kicked it off with enormous changes in how she would make briefings
She is the eighth woman who holds the position – a number that has been checked in the last two administrations.
Three of the four press secretaries who took Trump in his first term were women – Sarah Huckabee Sanders, now the governor of Arkansas, Stephanie Grisham and Kayleigh Mcenany.
Both press secretaries of President Joe Biden were also women – Jen Psaki and Karine Jean -Pierre.
Leavitt, a resident of New Hampshire, internship for FOX News and worked under Mcenany as an assistant press secretary during the first Trump administration.
She went to the congress in 2022, in the hope of Democratic Rep. Chris Pappas in the 1st conference district of the state.
Leavitt won the Republican Primary – but fell on Pappas in the general elections.
In January 2024 she became a national press secretary for the Trump campaign.
On November 15, 2024, Trump announced that Leavitt would be the first secretary of the White House of his second administration.
She hurried with reporters on board Air Force One but waited for eight days in the administration – a slightly longer delay than Psaki, who was aware of the inauguration day, or Sean Spicer, who declared famous that Trump had the largest audience ever ever witnessing an inauguration – period 'on January 21, one day in the new administration.
Leavitt is married to real estate developer Nicholas Riccio and became a first mother in the midst of the 2024 campaign – on 10 July – just a few days before Trump was shot in the Butler, Pennsylvania Rally and for the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.
