By Nurat Uthman
Karoline Leavitt, President-elect Donald Trump’s 27-year-old pick for White House press secretary, has had a meteoric rise since getting her break as a student assistant for Fox News during his 2016 campaign for the White House.
After serving as an assistant press secretary during Trump’s first stint as president, she is set to return as the youngest person ever in the high-pressure top press job.
Leavitt “is smart, tough and has proven to be a highly effective communicator. I have the utmost confidence she will excel at the podium, and help deliver our message to the American People,” Trump said in a statement announcing her appointment.
The conservative from New Hampshire has been a regular presence at Trump’s side in 2024, serving as his campaign spokeswoman at his rallies, as well as his multiple court appearances.
The mother-of-one, who took nine days off to give birth to her son during the campaign in July, is a fervent believer in Trump’s “America First” anti-immigrant agenda and shares his disdain for traditional media companies.
She told a Fox News podcast posted online on Friday that she had spent the campaign “battling a lot of ‘fake news’ reporters. I hate to call them that, but it’s true.”
“There are a lot of journalists who aren’t interested in journalism any more and we deal with them every day,” she added.
As press secretary, she will face enormous pressure from Trump, who is known to closely scrutinize cable news coverage.
