Trump Confirms Karoline Leavitt’s White House Departure

President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday the departure of White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt.

Leavitt is leaving at the end of the month “so she can spend more time with her beautiful young children and family, a decision I totally understand and respect!” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.

The president added that Leavitt will become one of his “top outside advisors” and work with the Republican Party to win the upcoming midterm elections in November.

In his post, Trump then described Leavitt as “one of the best White House Press Secretaries in the History of the Office. and thanked her “for a job well done!”

Leavitt gave birth to her second child, Viviana, in May, after leaving her post temporarily to go on maternity leave. She returned to the role in June.

“The truth is since returning to the White House after the birth of my daughter, I have felt in my heart that I cannot be the best mom my two young children deserve while devoting the constant time, energy, and attention required of the White House Press Secretary — and that is why I have ultimately made the bittersweet decision to depart the White House and embark on a new chapter in my life,” Leavitt wrote on X.

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“Our country is facing an existential threat from an increasingly extremist Democrat Party that seeks to destroy everything great about America, and I believe it is incumbent upon all of us who care about this country to fight back against that threat,” she added, writing, “My fight is entering a new phase, but it is far from over.”

The president described Leavitt as “one of the best White House Press Secretaries in the History of the Office.”

Sen. Rick Scott was among those who praised Leavitt on social media following her announcement.

“Karoline Leavitt did a fantastic job as White House Press Secretary! Children are such a blessing and her decision is one to be admired. God bless her and her family!” the Florida Republican wrote.

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum posted on X that “Leavitt has served President Trump and the American people with courage and conviction. She’s a great colleague, a fearless voice for the President’s agenda and a true professional.”

Most Notable Moments

Last March, Leavitt told the Daily Signal’s politics editor, Bradley Devlin, during an interview that the president “loves young people,” and noted that as part of the reason why she had “the honor” of serving in the role.

“Many people told him that I was too young to have this position, and he told me, ‘You’re not. When I was 21, I was building buildings in Manhattan, and I believe you can have this job.’”

The youngest White House press secretary began her time in the second Trump administration, opening up the White House press briefings to new media voices and restoring the ones of 440 journalists and media outlets that were revoked under former President Joe Biden’s administration.

In March 2025, after Trump’s address to the nation, Leavitt referred to the Democratic Party as the party of “insanity and hate,” which “wants to put America last,” because “they’ve allowed their Trump Derangement Syndrome to stop them from celebrating America and their people,” after congressional Democrats and media alike failed to celebrate the achievements touted by the president during the address.

“It’s not just the Democrat Party, the mainstream media still doesn’t get it,” Leavitt continued. “Last night, MSNBC’s Nicole Wallace disgustingly looped in a 13-year-old boy with brain cancer into an attack on the president over January 6.”

In August 2025, while Russia and Ukraine peace talks were ongoing, Leavitt slammed the American media for allegedly attempting to sabotage the peace talks with faulty coverage of the president’s foreign policy.

“One thing that has not changed is the media’s negative and downright false coverage of President Trump and his foreign policy accomplishments,” she said.

“From the beginning of this entire process, much of the left-wing media has been actively rooting against the president of the United States in the pursuit of peace,” Leavitt continued.