Karoline Leavitt, 28, is departing as White House press secretary after 20 months, with Trump announcing her exit Wednesday. She became the youngest press secretary in history at 27, and the first to be pregnant while serving, before returning from leave in July.
Her tenure included leading efforts to reshape the White House press pool, which the White House Correspondents' Association rejected, and being named in the Associated Press lawsuit over the outlet's exclusion from the pool. She also drew criticism for dismissing questions about Trump's ties to Jeffrey Epstein, sparring combatively with a reporter over the fatal shooting of Renee Good by an ICE officer, and for comments calling Gen Z voters entitled, which she later walked back.
Leavitt notably declined to endorse a Trump adviser's characterization of Alex Pretti, killed by federal agents, as a 'would-be assassin,' calling his death a tragedy instead.
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