{"id":634007,"date":"2026-08-12T23:20:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T23:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/634007\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T23:20:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T23:20:25","slug":"white-house-press-secretary-karoline-leavitt-to-leave-role-at-end-of-month-says-trump-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/634007\/","title":{"rendered":"White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt to leave role at end of month, says Trump \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

White House \u200cpress secretary Karoline Leavitt will leave her role at the end of the month, US<\/a> president Donald Trump<\/a> said on Wednesday, leaving him without one of his most trusted \u200badvisers in advance of November\u2019s midterm elections<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Leavitt will be an outside communications adviser and party operative shaping the future contours of Trump\u2019s \u201cMake America Great Again\u201d movement, she and Trump said in statements.<\/p>\n

In a social media post, Leavitt (28) said she aimed to spend more time with her young children. She gave birth to a daughter, her second child, \u200bin May and recently returned from maternity leave.<\/p>\n

\u201cKaroline has been a real leader in the White House, and has done a phenomenal job fighting for Justice, Liberty, and Freedom, \u2060since 2018, including our Historic Re-Election Campaign of 2024,\u201d Trump said in a social media post, calling Leavitt \u201cone of the best \u200cWhite \u200cHouse \u200bPress Secretaries in the History of the Office.\u201d<\/p>\n

Leavitt called her role at the White House \u201cthe honor and adventure of a lifetime\u201d.<\/p>\n

Leavitt joined Trump\u2019s 2024 campaign and served as transition spokeswoman before \u2060Trump selected her to be White House press secretary. \u200bShe was the youngest person to be appointed to the role.<\/p>\n

\u201cFew could \u200bor will ever compare to Karoline,\u201d said Harrison Fields, Trump\u2019s former principal deputy press secretary. \u201cShe\u2019s someone who not only spoke Trump fluently, she knew \u200chow to feed the media beast in a cunning, \u200baudacious, and successful way that, most importantly, played to her audience: the president.\u201d<\/p>\n

In her year-and-a-half on the job, \u2060Leavitt and White House communications director Steven Cheung transformed the administration\u2019s \u2060posture toward the media \u2013 in \u200bways that some of Trump\u2019s allies cheered and free press advocates criticised.<\/p>\n

The Trump administration<\/a> began handpicking which journalists receive access to the president, jettisoning the long-running system set up by the independent White House Correspondents Association.<\/p>\n

The \u201cpress pool\u201d was traditionally a rotation chosen by the industry group to ensure media outlets had uniform access to the president and could relay his activities to the public and to other journalists who could not attend smaller gatherings.<\/p>\n

As part of that process, the Trump administration press office created a special \u201cnew media\u201d seat in the briefing room that gave podcasts, newsletters and fledgling digital outlets a more prominent role in covering the \u200cpresidency.<\/p>\n

Some press advocates hailed the \u2060move as a recognition of the changing media landscape. Others criticised it as a lever the administration could use to reward outlets whose coverage it saw as favourable. <\/p>\n

Leavitt leaves the White House as administration officials face reports from the \u200cWashington Post this week that Trump used a plane carrying cabinet officials, staff and journalists as a decoy when departing a Nato summit in Turkey in July.<\/p>\n

The US Secret \u200bService clandestinely moved the president from one jet to another in the back of a catering \u200btruck, the newspaper reported, as Trump faced a potential Iranian assassination threat.<\/p>\n

Journalists and staffers on the original jet were unaware of Trump\u2019s movements, a significant departure from precedent. \u2013 Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"White House \u200cpress secretary Karoline Leavitt will leave her role at the end of the month, US president…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":634008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,356,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,12159,7,8,6221,384,259133],"class_list":["post-634007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-donald-trump","tag-eire","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-headlines","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-news","tag-republican-party","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-trump-presidency","tag-united-states","tag-us-midterms"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117085105445491178","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}