Karoline Leavitt’s debut White House press briefing comments about condoms and the truth also drew intense scrutiny.
Press secretary Karoline Leavitt said President Trump would open the briefing room to bloggers, podcasters and social-media influencers.
The White House received more than 7,000 press pass applications after Trump’s press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, revealed that “new media” would be welcomed to a briefing room in the West Wing. The influx of applications came just one day after Leavitt announced the president’s desire to engage with “the new media landscape,
Karoline Leavitt used her first briefing in the role to warn veteran reporters that they were increasingly irrelevant.
All illegal immigrants that have been arrested by immigration authorities in recent days are criminal, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said.
The White House Office of Management and Budget on Wednesday rescinded a memo that froze federal grants and loans and created widespread confusion this week.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt made her briefing debut on Tuesday, where she sparred with reporters over a federal freeze on grants and made clear that President Donald Trump himself will be the administration's main messenger.
When Leavitt, 27, walks out into the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room on Tuesday, she'll be the youngest press secretary to do so, since Ronald Ziegler, who held the title in former President Ronald Reagan's White House at age 29.
The freeze on hundreds of billions of dollars of federal grants had been temporarily halted by a judge on Tuesday.
"The View" co-host Whoopi Goldberg claimed on Wednesday that White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt may not have her job if not for "wokeness."
The marathon Q&A sessions are back, along with the cream Oval Office rug and the Diet Coke button on the Resolute Desk. So, too, are the late-night social media posts that ricochet across the globe and the barrage of executive orders.