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.

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.

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

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

All illegal immigrants that have been arrested by immigration authorities in recent days are criminal, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said.

He seems much more comfortable, almost relaxed in how he’s doing the job,” according to Sean Spicer, Trump’s first White House press secretary, who said Trump is showing a new “level of confidence,” having spent four years in office.

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

Officials said the decision to halt loans and grants was necessary to ensure spending complies with recent executive orders.

The White House received more than 7,000 press pass applications after Trump’s press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, revealed that “new media” would be welcomed to a briefing room in the West Wing. The influx of applications came just one day after Leavitt announced the president’s desire to engage with “the new media landscape,

Donald Trump 2.0 is, so far, very much the same as his first go around. But eight years after he was last sworn into office, the new president is emboldened, far more experienced and surrounded by a very different team.