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.