How Karoline Leavitt Changed the White House Press Room

Trump Administration The new media seat was a good idea. Robby Soave | 8.13.2026 3:18 PM Karoline Leavitt (Sipa USA/Newscom) White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt is leaving her post after two years in order to spend more time with her young children. This is not a particularly surprising development: Press secretary appears to be a demanding job in any administration, and presidents are known to go through several of them. Former President Joe Biden had Jen Psaki and then Karine Jean-Pierre during his single term. The job of the press secretary is to communicate the president's talking points while dodging, ducking, dipping, diving, and dodging (the five D's!) hostile lines of inquiry from the media. As such, it's a hard role to compliment. Leavitt was certainly an adept interlocut