{"id":2713,"date":"2026-08-27T21:40:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T21:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=2713"},"modified":"2026-08-27T21:40:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T21:40:15","slug":"karoline-leavitt-departs-trump-white-house-to-praise-and-gratitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=2713","title":{"rendered":"Karoline Leavitt Departs Trump White House To Praise And Gratitude"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON \u2014 Friends and colleagues on Thursday praised White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, who will depart the Trump administration on Friday.<\/p>

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The youngest White House press secretary in history, Leavitt made a name for herself through her steadfast loyalty to President Donald Trump, her curled-lip responses to legacy media from the podium, and her embrace of new media outlets at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.<\/p>

\u201cIt is a blessing, a privilege and honor to stand behind the White House podium,\u201d she said Thursday morning, reflecting on her 20 months in the role. \u201cSo, whoever gets the job next is a very lucky person to work for this president at this moment in history, and I\u2019ll be here to help every step of the way.\u201d<\/p>

Leavitt took the role at 27 years old and has been praised for a confidence and presence that many of her older predecessors lacked. Prior to each briefing, she said a prayer for strength and wisdom with her team, then strode through the lower press door, flashing a big, camera-ready smile. She maintained that smile through much of the briefings, doing her best to call on each reporter by name.<\/p>

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Many of the reporters asking questions in those high-profile briefings were unable to cross the threshold of the James Brady Briefing Room during past administrations. Under Leavitt\u2019s watch, the White House opened up the briefings to \u201cnew media\u201d \u2014 conservative reporters, podcasters, influencers, and other non-traditional forms of media that had become prominent during the 2024 election.<\/p>

\u201cIt\u2019s essential to our team that we share President Trump\u2019s message everywhere,\u201d she told the press in January 2025. Thanks to this effort, The Daily Wire has been able to attend countless briefings and Oval Office gaggles, travel on Air Force One and Air Force Two, and even gain a seat in the briefing room.<\/p>

Leavitt typically remained poised and calm during briefings, sharing updates from the president and promising reporters she would check with Trump when she didn\u2019t know the answer to their questions. Often she was humorous with the press: \u201cIt\u2019s only because of the United States of America that the French are not speaking German right now,\u201d she joked during one briefing.<\/p>

But she could occasionally be biting.<\/p>

\u201cYou\u2019re a left-wing hack,\u201d she fiercely told one offender in January 2026. \u201cYou\u2019re not a reporter. You\u2019re posing in this room as a journalist\u2026 You and the people in the media who have such biases but fake like you\u2019re a journalist \u2014 you shouldn\u2019t even be sitting in that seat.\u201d<\/p>

\u201cWe are not going to be lectured about national security and American troops by Democrats and the mainstream media, who turned the other cheek when the Biden Administration, because of their incompetence, left 13 service members dead in Afghanistan and not a single person in the previous Administration was held accountable,\u201d she said sternly on another occasion.<\/p>

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When she first took the podium in January 2025, she was a mother with a son, Niko, about six months old. Even before she began the White House role, Leavitt was working for Trump on the campaign, jumping back on television four days after she gave birth in the wake of the assassination attempt on Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania. She gave birth to her second child, a baby daughter, in May of this year, and said that she is departing the administration to focus more on her role as a wife and mother.<\/p>

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Speaking to The Daily Wire ahead of Mother\u2019s Day in 2025, Leavitt reflected on the sacrifices that the mothers in the administration were making to support the president. Her job was the opportunity of a lifetime, she said, and it was a temporary position.<\/p>

\u201cPresident Trump is only going to be here for four years, and this is a historic moment in history,\u201d she told The Daily Wire at the time. \u201cI work for a president whom I truly believe in and know that his policies are making a difference.\u201d<\/p>

When she wasn\u2019t preparing for briefings or defending the president on television, Leavitt was quietly fielding questions from reporters, persuading them on framing, and overseeing a communications team that has operated far more smoothly than Trump\u2019s first administration could ever have dreamed. She was up at 5 a.m. every day, immediately reading the news and catching up on whatever the president had posted overnight, preparing herself to take on the news media once again.<\/p>

She did her best to spend time with her son Niko before she headed to the White House and sought to get home in time for dinner.<\/p>

\u201cI do really try to prioritize returning home for bedtime,\u201d she shared in May 2025 with The Daily Wire. \u201cI savor that time \u2014 eating dinner together, doing tubby, doing book time, and then putting him down every night is a priority for me.\u201d<\/p>

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\u201cThat\u2019s actually advice I was given by my predecessor Sarah Sanders, who encouraged me to set that boundary. Of course it\u2019s not possible every night,\u201d she added. \u201cThere are national security crises, real challenges that we are working on solving every day, and so when duty calls I remain, but I do prioritize my job as a mother above anything and try to make it home.\u201d<\/p>

She will now have that opportunity to prioritize her family. Trump, who will notice her absence more than any other administration departure, said he understands.<\/p>

\u201cAre we gonna miss Karoline?\u201d he asked reporters outside Air Force One. \u201cI\u2019m gonna miss her!\u201d<\/p>

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He added with a smile: \u201cShe\u2019s made that job very glamorous.\u201d<\/p><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON \u2014 Friends and colleagues on Thursday praised White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, who will depart the Trump administration on Friday.The youngest White House press secretary in history, Leavitt made a name for herself through her steadfast loyalty to President Donald Trump, her curled-lip responses to legacy media from the podium, and her embrace of new media outlets at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.\u201cIt is a blessing, a privilege and honor to stand behind the White House podium,\u201d she said Thursday morning, reflecting on her 20 months in the role. \u201cSo, whoever gets the job next is a very lucky person to work for this president at this moment in history, and I\u2019ll be here to help every step of the way.\u201dLeavitt took the role at 27 years old and has been praised for a confidence and presence that many of her older predecessors lacked. Prior to each briefing, she said a prayer for strength and wisdom with her team, then strode through the lower press door, flashing a big, camera-ready smile. She maintained that smile through much of the briefings, doing her best to call on each reporter by name.White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt (Photo by Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images)Many of the reporters asking questions in those high-profile briefings were unable to cross the threshold of the James Brady Briefing Room during past administrations. Under Leavitt\u2019s watch, the White House opened up the briefings to \u201cnew media\u201d \u2014 conservative reporters, podcasters, influencers, and other non-traditional forms of media that had become prominent during the 2024 election.\u201cIt\u2019s essential to our team that we share President Trump\u2019s message everywhere,\u201d she told the press in January 2025. Thanks to this effort, The Daily Wire has been able to attend countless briefings and Oval Office gaggles, travel on Air Force One and Air Force Two, and even gain a seat in the briefing room.Leavitt typically remained poised and calm during briefings, sharing updates from the president and promising reporters she would check with Trump when she didn\u2019t know the answer to their questions. Often she was humorous with the press: \u201cIt\u2019s only because of the United States of America that the French are not speaking German right now,\u201d she joked during one briefing.But she could occasionally be biting.\u201cYou\u2019re a left-wing hack,\u201d she fiercely told one offender in January 2026. \u201cYou\u2019re not a reporter. You\u2019re posing in this room as a journalist\u2026 You and the people in the media who have such biases but fake like you\u2019re a journalist \u2014 you shouldn\u2019t even be sitting in that seat.\u201d\u201cWe are not going to be lectured about national security and American troops by Democrats and the mainstream media, who turned the other cheek when the Biden Administration, because of their incompetence, left 13 service members dead in Afghanistan and not a single person in the previous Administration was held accountable,\u201d she said sternly on another occasion.Leavitt in November 2025 (Photo by Win McNamee\/Getty Images)When she first took the podium in January 2025, she was a mother with a son, Niko, about six months old. Even before she began the White House role, Leavitt was working for Trump on the campaign, jumping back on television four days after she gave birth in the wake of the assassination attempt on Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania. She gave birth to her second child, a baby daughter, in May of this year, and said that she is departing the administration to focus more on her role as a wife and mother.Speaking to The Daily Wire ahead of Mother\u2019s Day in 2025, Leavitt reflected on the sacrifices that the mothers in the administration were making to support the president. Her job was the opportunity of a lifetime, she said, and it was a temporary position.\u201cPresident Trump is only going to be here for four years, and this is a historic moment in history,\u201d she told The Daily Wire at the time. \u201cI work for a president whom I truly believe in and know that his policies are making a difference.\u201dWhen she wasn\u2019t preparing for briefings or defending the president on television, Leavitt was quietly fielding questions from reporters, persuading them on framing, and overseeing a communications team that has operated far more smoothly than Trump\u2019s first administration could ever have dreamed. She was up at 5 a.m. every day, immediately reading the news and catching up on whatever the president had posted overnight, preparing herself to take on the news media once again.She did her best to spend time with her son Niko before she headed to the White House and sought to get home in time for dinner.\u201cI do really try to prioritize returning home for bedtime,\u201d she shared in May 2025 with The Daily Wire. \u201cI savor that time \u2014 eating dinner together, doing tubby, doing book time, and then putting him down every night is a priority for me.\u201dLeavitt carries her son during the 2026 White House Easter Egg Roll. Daniel Heuer\/Bloomberg via Getty Images\u201cThat\u2019s actually advice I was given by my predecessor Sarah Sanders, who encouraged me to set that boundary. Of course it\u2019s not possible every night,\u201d she added. \u201cThere are national security crises, real challenges that we are working on solving every day, and so when duty calls I remain, but I do prioritize my job as a mother above anything and try to make it home.\u201dShe will now have that opportunity to prioritize her family. Trump, who will notice her absence more than any other administration departure, said he understands.\u201cAre we gonna miss Karoline?\u201d he asked reporters outside Air Force One. \u201cI\u2019m gonna miss her!\u201dHe added with a smile: \u201cShe\u2019s made that job very glamorous.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2"],"yoast_head":"\nKaroline Leavitt Departs Trump White House To Praise And Gratitude - Blue Route Journal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=2713\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Karoline Leavitt Departs Trump White House To Praise And Gratitude - Blue Route Journal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"WASHINGTON \u2014 Friends and colleagues on Thursday praised White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, who will depart the Trump administration on Friday.The youngest White House press secretary in history, Leavitt made a name for herself through her steadfast loyalty to President Donald Trump, her curled-lip responses to legacy media from the podium, and her embrace of new media outlets at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.\u201cIt is a blessing, a privilege and honor to stand behind the White House podium,\u201d she said Thursday morning, reflecting on her 20 months in the role. \u201cSo, whoever gets the job next is a very lucky person to work for this president at this moment in history, and I\u2019ll be here to help every step of the way.\u201dLeavitt took the role at 27 years old and has been praised for a confidence and presence that many of her older predecessors lacked. 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She gave birth to her second child, a baby daughter, in May of this year, and said that she is departing the administration to focus more on her role as a wife and mother.Speaking to The Daily Wire ahead of Mother\u2019s Day in 2025, Leavitt reflected on the sacrifices that the mothers in the administration were making to support the president. Her job was the opportunity of a lifetime, she said, and it was a temporary position.\u201cPresident Trump is only going to be here for four years, and this is a historic moment in history,\u201d she told The Daily Wire at the time. \u201cI work for a president whom I truly believe in and know that his policies are making a difference.\u201dWhen she wasn\u2019t preparing for briefings or defending the president on television, Leavitt was quietly fielding questions from reporters, persuading them on framing, and overseeing a communications team that has operated far more smoothly than Trump\u2019s first administration could ever have dreamed. 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Trump, who will notice her absence more than any other administration departure, said he understands.\u201cAre we gonna miss Karoline?\u201d he asked reporters outside Air Force One. \u201cI\u2019m gonna miss her!\u201dHe added with a smile: \u201cShe\u2019s made that job very glamorous.\u201d\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=2713\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Blue Route Journal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-08-27T21:40:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"5 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blueroutejournal.com\\\/?p=2713#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blueroutejournal.com\\\/?p=2713\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blueroutejournal.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/19da116f8d79cf8987781569801c6b7c\"},\"headline\":\"Karoline Leavitt Departs Trump White House To Praise And Gratitude\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-08-27T21:40:15+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blueroutejournal.com\\\/?p=2713\"},\"wordCount\":982,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blueroutejournal.com\\\/?p=2713#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blueroutejournal.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/08\\\/5232aba0d144b077303cf7e5b811303b.avif\",\"articleSection\":[\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/blueroutejournal.com\\\/?p=2713#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blueroutejournal.com\\\/?p=2713\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blueroutejournal.com\\\/?p=2713\",\"name\":\"Karoline Leavitt Departs Trump White House To Praise And Gratitude - 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Prior to each briefing, she said a prayer for strength and wisdom with her team, then strode through the lower press door, flashing a big, camera-ready smile. She maintained that smile through much of the briefings, doing her best to call on each reporter by name.White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt (Photo by Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images)Many of the reporters asking questions in those high-profile briefings were unable to cross the threshold of the James Brady Briefing Room during past administrations. Under Leavitt\u2019s watch, the White House opened up the briefings to \u201cnew media\u201d \u2014 conservative reporters, podcasters, influencers, and other non-traditional forms of media that had become prominent during the 2024 election.\u201cIt\u2019s essential to our team that we share President Trump\u2019s message everywhere,\u201d she told the press in January 2025. Thanks to this effort, The Daily Wire has been able to attend countless briefings and Oval Office gaggles, travel on Air Force One and Air Force Two, and even gain a seat in the briefing room.Leavitt typically remained poised and calm during briefings, sharing updates from the president and promising reporters she would check with Trump when she didn\u2019t know the answer to their questions. Often she was humorous with the press: \u201cIt\u2019s only because of the United States of America that the French are not speaking German right now,\u201d she joked during one briefing.But she could occasionally be biting.\u201cYou\u2019re a left-wing hack,\u201d she fiercely told one offender in January 2026. \u201cYou\u2019re not a reporter. You\u2019re posing in this room as a journalist\u2026 You and the people in the media who have such biases but fake like you\u2019re a journalist \u2014 you shouldn\u2019t even be sitting in that seat.\u201d\u201cWe are not going to be lectured about national security and American troops by Democrats and the mainstream media, who turned the other cheek when the Biden Administration, because of their incompetence, left 13 service members dead in Afghanistan and not a single person in the previous Administration was held accountable,\u201d she said sternly on another occasion.Leavitt in November 2025 (Photo by Win McNamee\/Getty Images)When she first took the podium in January 2025, she was a mother with a son, Niko, about six months old. Even before she began the White House role, Leavitt was working for Trump on the campaign, jumping back on television four days after she gave birth in the wake of the assassination attempt on Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania. She gave birth to her second child, a baby daughter, in May of this year, and said that she is departing the administration to focus more on her role as a wife and mother.Speaking to The Daily Wire ahead of Mother\u2019s Day in 2025, Leavitt reflected on the sacrifices that the mothers in the administration were making to support the president. Her job was the opportunity of a lifetime, she said, and it was a temporary position.\u201cPresident Trump is only going to be here for four years, and this is a historic moment in history,\u201d she told The Daily Wire at the time. \u201cI work for a president whom I truly believe in and know that his policies are making a difference.\u201dWhen she wasn\u2019t preparing for briefings or defending the president on television, Leavitt was quietly fielding questions from reporters, persuading them on framing, and overseeing a communications team that has operated far more smoothly than Trump\u2019s first administration could ever have dreamed. She was up at 5 a.m. every day, immediately reading the news and catching up on whatever the president had posted overnight, preparing herself to take on the news media once again.She did her best to spend time with her son Niko before she headed to the White House and sought to get home in time for dinner.\u201cI do really try to prioritize returning home for bedtime,\u201d she shared in May 2025 with The Daily Wire. \u201cI savor that time \u2014 eating dinner together, doing tubby, doing book time, and then putting him down every night is a priority for me.\u201dLeavitt carries her son during the 2026 White House Easter Egg Roll. Daniel Heuer\/Bloomberg via Getty Images\u201cThat\u2019s actually advice I was given by my predecessor Sarah Sanders, who encouraged me to set that boundary. Of course it\u2019s not possible every night,\u201d she added. \u201cThere are national security crises, real challenges that we are working on solving every day, and so when duty calls I remain, but I do prioritize my job as a mother above anything and try to make it home.\u201dShe will now have that opportunity to prioritize her family. 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