Karoline Leavitt is officially the youngest press secretary in the White House’s history, and was shut down on CNN last year for repeatedly attacking the network’s debate hosts for being ‘hostile’
Karoline Leavitt is officially the youngest press secretary in the White House’s history, according to various media outlets.
Karoline Leavitt holds up her one-month-old
The 27-year-old teased an announcement for a big new infrastructure initiative on Donald Trump’s first day in office. “It’s going to be a massive announcement and it’s going to prove that the world knows that America is back,” she told Fox & Friends on Tuesday.
Trump later revealed a US$500 billion AI infrastructure investment in the US, with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son and Oracle chairman Larry Ellison arriving at the White House to make the announcement. Called Stargate, it will build “the physical and virtual infrastructure to power the next generation of AI”, Trump explained.
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Karoline Leavitt has become the youngest White House press secretary of all time at the age of 27. Photo: @karolineleavitt/Instagram
Here’s what we know about Karoline Leavitt.
What is Karoline Leavitt’s background?
Karoline Leavitt is from New Hampshire. Photo: @karolineleavitt/Instagram
Leavitt hails from the US state of New Hampshire, per the BBC.
Karoline Leavitt at a Boston Bruins NHL game. Photo: @karolineleavitt/Instagram
She studied communications and political science at Saint Anselm College, a Catholic school in her home state. She ended up landing an internship at the White House before getting a full-time position there.
She is a loyal Trump supporter
Karoline Leavitt isn’t afraid to stick her neck out in public for Donald Trump. Photo: @karolineleavitt/Instagram
Leavitt has not been afraid to voice her opinions, and was a fierce defender of President Trump before his debate with Joe Biden last June, calling the CNN moderators “biased” and “hostile”. CNN abruptly terminated a live interview with her after she got into a heated exchange with the presenter of CNN This Morning, per The Guardian. “Ma’am, we’re going to stop this interview if you’re going to keep attacking my colleagues,” the show’s presenter Kasie Hunt said. “I am stating facts that your colleagues have stated in the past …” Leavitt said, before Hunt ended the conversation.
She is the youngest ever White House press secretary
Donald Trump and his press secretary Karoline Leavitt last October. Photo: @karolineleavitt/Instagram
Leavitt takes over the distinction from Ron Ziegler, who held the record back in 1969 after being appointed to the position by Richard Nixon when he was just 29.
She is a mother
Karoline Leavitt had her first child in July 2024. Photo: @karolineleavitt/Instagram
Leavitt is a proud mama. She gave birth to her son Nicholas in July last year. “In my working mom era. 36 days!” she wrote on Instagram less than three months after giving birth.
She shares her son with her partner Nick, who’s a self-employed business owner, according to the Times of India.
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“I thought I was feeding a dog—until I discovered my sister-in-law’s young son hidden away and in desperate need of help. After rushing him to the hospital, the call I made uncovered a secret no one saw coming.”
The call came while I was rinsing a baby bottle under the kitchen faucet, the hum of the dishwasher masking…
“She told me to check on her ‘dog’ while she relaxed at a luxury resort—but instead, I found her little boy neglected and whispering, ‘Mom said you wouldn’t come.’ One phone call blew the truth wide open.”
The call came while I was rinsing a baby bottle under the kitchen faucet, the hum of the dishwasher masking…
“My sister-in-law asked me to feed her dog while she vacationed at a resort—but when I arrived, there was no dog… only her 5-year-old son locked in a room. What happened next exposed a secret that shocked everyone.”
The call came while I was rinsing a baby bottle under the kitchen faucet, the hum of the dishwasher masking…
My sister-in-law called from a resort asking me to feed her dog. when i went to her house, there was no dog—only her five-year-old son, neglected and locked in a room. “mom said you wouldn’t come,” he whispered. i rushed him to the hospital, then made a call that exposed a secret no one expected.
The call came while I was rinsing a baby bottle under the kitchen faucet, the hum of the dishwasher masking…
“After 12 years of caring for my father-in-law, his final gift was a tattered pillow with the words ‘For Maria.’ When I opened it, I couldn’t stop crying…”
My father-in-law had no pension. I cared for him with all my heart for 12 years. With his last breath,…
“He had no pension and no savings, but I took care of him for over a decade. Moments before he died, he gave me a ragged pillow—what was hidden inside left me sobbing.”
My father-in-law had no pension. I cared for him with all my heart for 12 years. With his last breath,…
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