Meet Karoline Leavitt: New Press Secretary, New Mom and Fierce Media Disrupter

President-elect Donald J. Trump announced Friday evening that he has selected Karoline Leavitt to serve as his White House press secretary.

The 27-year-old will become the youngest White House press secretary in history. According to NPR, the position hasn’t been held by anyone under 30 since former President Richard Nixon’s administration in 1969.

“Karoline Leavitt did a phenomenal job as the National Press Secretary on my Historic Campaign, and I am pleased to announce she will serve as White House Press Secretary,” the President-elect said in a press release, adding,

Karoline 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.

In a post on X, Karoline expressed her gratitude for the appointment: “Thank you, President Trump, for believing in me. I am humbled and honored.”

Leavitt was born in Atkinson, New Hampshire in 1997. She attended Central Catholic High School and worked at her family’s ice cream shop during the summer. She credits her high school with fostering her faith and commitment to public service.

She attended Saint Anselm College, where she remembers being one of the few conservatives on campus.

Though young, Leavitt has already accomplished a lot. She even ran for Congress in 2022, winning the Republican nomination in New Hampshire’s First Congressional District against nine other candidates. She promised to be a “fearless pro-life advocate” if elected. Ultimately, she lost in the general election to Democrat incumbent Chris Pappas.

Leavitt is also a new mom, having given birth to her son Nicholas just four months ago.

According to The Conservateur, Leavitt was pregnant for the first six months of her role as the Trump campaign’s 2024 national press secretary. She had planned to go on maternity leave after giving birth, but quickly changed her mind after the assassination attempt on President Trump.

Leavitt recounted her experience of July 13: “I had just brought my newborn, my three-day-old baby, home from the hospital. And I said, ‘I’m going to turn on the television and watch the rally today.’”

She had no idea she would watch her boss get shot in the ear and her colleagues run for cover as bullets rained down upon them.

As she recalls, “I looked at my husband and said, ‘Looks like I’m going back to work.’” One day later, she was back on television. “I felt compelled to be present in this historic moment,” she explained.

Leavitt will have many opportunities to tangle with the press in her new role, speaking on behalf of the president. If the President-elect’s second term is anything like his first, you can bet the media will – once again – decide to be relentlessly hostile to his administration.

In 2017, the Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center conducted a study analyzing the media’s coverage of President Trump’s first 100 days in office. Evaluating coverage from CBS, CNN, NBC, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and Fox News, the study found,

CNN and NBC’s coverage was the most unrelenting – negative stories about Trump outpaced positive ones by 13-to-1 on the two networks. Trump’s coverage on CBS also exceeded the 90 percent mark. Trump’s coverage exceeded the 80 percent level in The New York Times (87 percent negative) and The Washington Post (83 percent negative). The Wall Street Journal came in below that level (70 percent negative).

According to the Shorenstein Center, “Trump’s coverage during his first 100 days was not merely negative in overall terms. It was unfavorable on every dimension. There was not a single major topic where Trump’s coverage was more positive than negative.”

“Of the past four presidents, only Barack Obama received favorable coverage during his first 100 days” the study found.

This is just one of myriad examples why most Americans do not trust the American mainstream media.

In October, Gallup reported Americans’ trust in the media has tied a record low, with just 32% of Americans saying they trust the mass media “a great deal” or “a fair amount.” An additional 29% of adults have “not very much” trust in the media, while a record-high 39% say they don’t trust the media at all.

As Leavitt faces down a hostile press from the White House podium, she’ll have her faith to help and guide her.

“My faith in God carries me through,” Leavitt said during the 2024 presidential campaign. “I wake up every day and say my prayers and ask God to give me the strength I need to power through another day.”

Congratulations to Karoline Leavitt on her appointment as White House press secretary. We pray she’ll serve our nation well.

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