Karoline Leavitt was a Gen Z Trump megafan. Now she’s the youngest-ever White House press secretary
Karoline Leavitt was a Gen Z Trump megafan. Now she’s the youngest-ever White House press secretary
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The Gen Z Republican from New Hampshire will make her briefing room debut. As a college student, Karoline Leavitt was laser-focused on getting where she wanted to be today: serving in the Trump administration as the youngest-ever White House press secretary.
![[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)
While many of her fellow students were partying, Leavitt, 27, spent her college days attending “every political event possible” in service of that goal. She was pictured beaming next to Tucker Carlson during the internship. “The NH Primary is how my love for politics and media originated,” Leavitt wrote on Instagram. “From that week on, I knew what I wanted to do for my career.”.
![[Leavitt makes history as the youngest ever White House press secretary]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/01/28/15/2195085308.jpg)
Her loyalty to Trump has been unwavering ever since. Toward the end of Trump’s first term, Leavitt learned the ropes of the White House press gig when she joined former press secretary McEnany’s team. That same year, Leavitt posted a video of herself at the shooting range captioned: “take it @joebiden” as she fired.
After losing to her Democratic rival, Leavitt was welcomed back on the Trump team and eventually named his campaign spokeswoman. Trump’s new press secretary is also a wife and mother. She said she went back to work “just days” after giving birth to her son, born in July 2024.
When asked about the demands of the job and missing out on moments with her child, Leavitt said at the end of last year that she “prays about it every day.”. “It’s very difficult but it’s also all I know,” she told Instagram followers. “I went back to work just days after giving birth…I remind myself this job is temporary, it’s the opportunity of a lifetime.”.
