Washington – White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt made her debut in the briefing room on Tuesday and promised to speak frequently with the news media and open up the briefing room to podcasters and social media influencers.

The youngest-ever White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, held her first press briefing on Tuesday, January 28, 2025.

Press secretary Karoline Leavitt said President Trump would open the briefing room to bloggers, podcasters and social-media influencers.

Karoline Leavitt is the youngest person to serve as White House press secretary and was Donald Trump’s national press secretary during much of the 2024 presidential race.

When Leavitt, 27, walks out into the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room on Tuesday, she'll be the youngest press secretary to do so, since Ronald Ziegler, who held the title in former President Ronald Reagan's White House at age 29.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt made her briefing debut on Tuesday, where she sparred with reporters over a federal freeze on grants and made clear that President Donald Trump himself will be the administration's main messenger.

Karoline Leavitt, 27, holds court for first time, warning reporters the administration won’t tolerate ‘lies’ from the ‘legacy media.’

That has left Trump more emboldened than ever — and with a long to-do list. He's launched into a frenetic pace of appearances that is a dramatic departure from his predecessor, Joe Biden, who often faded from public view by his own staff's design.

Trump's firings of the Senate-confirmed inspectors general included officials at Defense, State, Transportation, Labor, Health and Human Services, and EPA among others.

Trump 2024 presidential campaign spokesperson Karoline Leavitt made her debut as White House's youngest press secretary on Tuesday.

Karoline Leavitt used her first briefing in the role to warn veteran reporters that they were increasingly irrelevant.