Trump’s new White House secretary will be youngest in US historypublished at 07:27 Greenwich Mean Time
A little bit more on one of the latest staff picks from the Trump camp.
The president-elect has nominated his election campaign spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt
as his White House press secretary.
Leavitt, 27, will be the youngest White House press secretary in US history, two years younger than Ron Ziegler who had the same role under Richard Nixon in 1969.
In his announcement overnight, Trump said: “Karoline is
smart, tough, and has proven to be a highly effective communicator”.
The New Hampshire native interned for the White House press
office during Trump’s first term as president while she was still in school.
After graduating in 2019, she joined as a presidential
writer and later worked as assistant press secretary.
In 2022, she ran for Congress, campaigning on issues such as
lower taxes and a tougher stance on illegal immigration. In January this year, she joined Trump’s election campaign as his press secretary.