In late January and early February 2025, a rumor spread online that White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt cited the life of Jesus as a reason Americans shouldn't worry about the possibility of Canada cutting off electricity imports in response to U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff policy.

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.

WASHINGTON— Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt made her debut in the White House briefing room where she defended President Donald Trump's plans to slash federal spending and its mass deportation efforts.

The press secretary also defended Trump’s recent executive order redefining sex as strictly male or female based on birth, eliminating federal recognition of transgender and nonbinary individuals. Leavitt described the policy as restoring “sanity” in the face of “wokeness.”

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.

Trump has picked his 27-year-old campaign press secretary to stand behind the podium in the White House briefing room.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, the youngest person to ever hold that office, made her debut Tuesday in the first White House briefing of Donald Trump's second term in office.