White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt to leave at month's end - Los Angeles Times
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hite House press secretary Karoline Leavitt to leave at month's end
Leavitt, who served President Trump as a press aide during his first term in the White House, has been one of the most visible advocates of his "Make America Great Again" movement.
Associated Press Aug. 12, 2026 1:09 PM PT
WASHINGTON — White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, one of the most visible advocates of the "Make America Great Again" movement, will leave at month's end, President Trump announced Wednesday.
Leavitt recently returned to the White House after taking a brief leave for the birth of her second child in May. At 28, she's the youngest person to serve as press secretary.
Trump described Leavitt, who served as a press aide during his first term in the White House, as one of his "most trusted aides" in a social media post.
He said Leavitt "will be departing her role at the end of the month so she can spend more time with her beautiful young children and family, a decision I totally understand and respect! Karoline will now be one of my top outside advisers, and an influential voice within the Republican Party, as we work to defy History, and conclusively win the Midterm Elections."
Trump did not mention who might replace her in the high-profile role.
Leavitt gave birth to a daughter in May. She also has a 2-year-old son.
"The truth is since returning to the White House after the birth of my daughter, I have felt in my heart that I cannot be the best mom my two young children deserve while devoting the constant time, energy, and attention required of the White House Press Secretary — and that is why I have ultimately made the bittersweet decision to depart the White House and embark on a new chapter in my life," Leavitt said on social media.
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Leavitt is going to leave it. She could get a new job as a stand in for actress Rosamund Pike.
Rosamund PIke
Katherine Leavitt finally had enough of his lying and her covering for him.
It will remain to be seen, just how much of a top adviser she can be outside of the WH when she is changing her own kids diapers and cleaning their poopy asses instead of his
Karoline.
Whatever... she never looked as nice as Pike.
But they DO look fairly similar.
She just had a baby. Maybe she just wants to be with her kids?
Makes sense to me.
because the diapers are so much smaller than ....
???
guessing her husbands diapers vs her childs
Trump's.
Depends, no ?
LOL. Depends, YES.
I know it's not your and the US is over the top on certain things when it comes to firearms, but it was about 3:30 AM here, I had just wandered down to the basement as my stomach was a tad upset and my Alka Seltzer is in my Man Cave bath, and I hear one of our vehicles alarm going off outside and then the dogs start freaking out in the garage, so I head out to the driveway where parked are two trucks and my girls car and nothing is blinking as one would expect on a vehicle being robbed or whatever might have set off one of the alarms. I then headed out to the front of residence where my SUV is parked under a tree on the front lawn, and no sign of anything. So i let the dogs out to sniff around and nothing seems out of the norm. And as I walk out our driveway in my damn underwear, I'm thinking to myself, perhaps I should have grabbed one of my damn guns! So quiet on our 4 acres that are adjacent to 40 plus acres and woods, I didn't even think about needing a weapon, till I went to search our vehicles and my headlamp batteries were low, I thought I'm still capable, but I'm too old to be physically defending my self, especially if more than one, and/or if they had a club, knife, or gun and i'm in my fashionable boxers, ready to wrestle and roll, on the ground, and then suddenly found, a light bulb go off over my thick skull, and went to dig out a few weapons I had stashed for the grandkids visits lately. Now i'm out patrolling my front yard with a rifle in hand and headlamp on high. Neighbors, who are over a hundred and fifty to two hundred yards away and only two, must of thought what the fck is that guy going to do...? Afer a thorough search of house and check of our cameras, I start thinking, was it possibly one of their cars ? Now i'm wide awake and adrenalin pumping, and then our really intense weather pattern continued, and it started pouring, my girl is snoring, and I'm gonna crack a beer, and crank up my man cave tunes, cause alarmed car, tunes, have me animated. Sorry for the uneeded elaboration, but WTF, we really didn't need that commotion. Tomorrow, put up a few more cameras I've got laying around, and strategically place my weapons in case of emergency. I've got some serious knives and actually some bad asz Star Trek weapon, possibly Ramian, that would John Bobbit a real head in a single swipe, and not what i'm about, and haven't really thought of self defense since moving out here, but I used to work in some rough sections of some rough cities, (Philly, Camden, Chester, Trenton, etc.) better prepared than defenseless, at least in my eyes, as gotts to protect my girl and our three dogs!
Thanks for the essay. I'll give you an A-. It would have been an A+ had it been on topic.
Whenever I saw her name mentioned it made me think of my very best friend of all time, who I'm sad to say died of a heart attack as a young man - in his mid 40s. His family name was Levitt. I hired a bagpiper to play while his casket was being carried from the temple funeral service to the hearse to go to the cemetary. Maybe because I paid the piper is why I've lived twice as long as he did.
I'm throwing my support behind this one -
This would be one hundred percent perfect
If you think leftists are triggered about how skillfully Leavitt handled the left wing press, they will go apoplectic with Jennings
He would keep the unbroken string of lying going thats for sure.
Well it will be a blessing to not have to see/hear him on CNN or FOX
He was on an abc panel the other day
If he becomes Press sec he wont have the time to collect appearance fees, he will just have to live on $195,000 a year
while being at the White House almost all the time.
In real terms its making $22.25 an hour 365 days a year. Taxable in D.C., too funny
Do you think she's Trump's "type"?
Karoline Leavitt has her hands full with her own little babies.
Who knows, maybe Kristi Noem can make a comeback? Mike Lindell is looking for a job, too.
#1 reason why jennings should not be the next WHPS
SMH