From 'Worse than Spicer' to 'Born to do this,' pundits weigh in on Karoline Leavitt's debut
From 'Worse than Spicer' to 'Born to do this,' pundits weigh in on Karoline Leavitt's debut
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The Gen-Z press secretary is the youngest ever to arrive at the White House but following her debut she’s been damned by the left for peddling false Trump narratives and praised by the right as a top pick. Political pundits have weighed in on Trump’s new White House press secretary hire following her first official press debut on Tuesday.
![[The 27-year-old told the press that the new Trump 2.0 era would welcome questions from the “new media” allowing TikToker’s the right to probe the Trump administration]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/01/28/21/White_House_Press_Briefing_47202.jpg)
Karoline Leavitt, a 27-year-old mother of one, and the youngest press secretary to take up the role in White House history made her first official statements to the media Tuesday, giving the rundown on everything from Trump’s staunch immigration policies to Biden’s presidency.
![[Karoline Leavitt at a shooting range in 2022, where her video was captioned: ‘take it @joebiden']](https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/01/28/15/Screenshot-2025-01-28-at-10.17.56.jpg)
The press conference saw “new media” – Tiktokers, podcasters, and independent journalists - in the room with a representative of that group even promised the first question at each White House briefing henceforth. But this Gen Z Republican from New Hampshire, who formerly launched a bid for Congress, before interning at Fox News, is now facing both praise and criticism from all sides – prompting questions as to whether she will will thrive in the world of MAGA or buckle under the scrutiny of the left.
The former CBS News journalist praised the expansion of press briefings to the “new media” citing her belief that former administrations only granted “the left narratives questions” before calling the new age of TikTok politics “real journalism.”.
