White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt made her debut in the briefing room on Tuesday and promised to speak frequently with the news media and open up the briefing room to podcasters and social media influencers.

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.

Karoline Leavitt used her first briefing in the role to warn veteran reporters that they were increasingly irrelevant.

Trump 2024 presidential campaign spokesperson Karoline Leavitt made her debut as White House's youngest press secretary on Tuesday.

Press secretary Karoline Leavitt said President Trump would open the briefing room to bloggers, podcasters and social-media influencers.

Karoline Leavitt is the youngest person to serve as White House press secretary and was Trump’s national press secretary during much of the 2024 presidential race.

Karoline Leavitt, the youngest person to serve as White House press secretary, made her debut in the briefing room Tuesday, saying that podcasters and social media influencers could apply to participate in future briefings.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt touted Donald Trump's first-week achievements in her debut briefing to reporters - but the 27 year old was happy to remind everyone that the president himself is the administration's best spokesman.

In her first press briefing, Leavitt started with a question from an Axios journalist and made several criticisms of the media.

The temperature was rising before the cameras started rolling. Reporters with assigned seating jealously guarded against the occasional poachers who were inevitably but politely evicted and sent scrounging for a spot to squeeze into along the already crowded aisles.