White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt leaves position to spend time with family

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt leaves position to spend time with family

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will leave her role at the end of the month, US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday, leaving the president without one of his most trusted advisers ahead of November's midterm elections. Leavitt will be an outside communications adviser and party operative shaping the future contours of Trump's "Make America Great Again" movement, she and Trump said in statements. In a social media post, Leavitt, 28, said she aimed to spend more time with her young children. She gave birth to a daughter, her second child, in May and recently returned from maternity leave. "Karoline has been a real leader in the White House, and has done a phenomenal job fighting for Justice, Liberty, and Freedom, since 2018, including our Historic Re-Election Campaign of 2024," Trump said in a social media post, calling Leavitt "one of the best White House Press Secretaries in the History of the Office." Leavitt called her role at the White House "the honor and adventure of a lifetime." Leavitt joined Trump's 2024 campaign and served as transition spokeswoman before Trump selected her to be White House press secretary. She was the youngest person to be appointed to the role. Although Leavitt is leaving the White House less than two years after taking the job, her tenure is not unusually short by modern standards. Leavitt's tenure, which will total approximately 19 months by the time she departs at the end of August, therefore falls comfortably within the modern pattern for one of the White House's most relentless public-facing jobs.