Today, Karoline Leavitt completes her final day as the 36th White House Press Secretary — the youngest person to ever hold the position and among the best ever to do it. She leaves the James S. Brady Briefing Room after a tenure defined by command, clarity, and an unrelenting defense of President Donald J. Trump and the America First agenda. President Trump called her “one of the best White House Press Secretaries in the History of the Office” — and that’s the legacy she leaves behind.
She refused to let reporters turn the briefing room into a stage for activism: “You’re a left-wing hack. You’re not a reporter. You’re posing in this room as a journalist… You and the people in the media who have such biases but fake like you’re a journalist — you shouldn’t even be sitting in that seat. ” She rejected questions that didn’t deserve the dignity of longer replies: “What a stupid question. ” She responded with facts: “All of them — because they illegally broke our nation’s laws and therefore, they are criminals.
” She declared this Administration would not be lectured by those who failed the country: “We are not going to be lectured about national security and American troops by Democrats and the mainstream media, who turned the other cheek when the Biden Administration, because of their incompetence, left 13 service members dead in Afghanistan and not a single person in the previous Administration was held accountable.
” She drew a red line on this Administration’s personnel and purpose: “He identifies pregnant women as ‘pregnant people,’ so that’s not someone who we want in this Administration anyway. If people are not aligned with the President’s vision and the Secretary’s vision to make our country healthy again, then we will gladly show them the door. ” She dismissed…