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Meet Donald Trump’s new Gen Z press secretary Karoline Leavitt: the 27-year-old just became the youngest person in history to fill the role, and says she’s in her ‘working mum era’
STORYFaye Bradley
Karoline Leavitt is officially the youngest press secretary in the White House’s history, and was shut down on CNN last year for repeatedly attacking the network’s debate hosts for being ‘hostile’
Karoline Leavitt is officially the youngest press secretary in the White House’s history, according to various media outlets.
The 27-year-old teased an announcement for a big new infrastructure initiative on Donald Trump’s first day in office. “It’s going to be a massive announcement and it’s going to prove that the world knows that America is back,” she told Fox & Friends on Tuesday.
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Trump later revealed a US$500 billion AI infrastructure investment in the US, with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son and Oracle chairman Larry Ellison arriving at the White House to make the announcement. Called Stargate, it will build “the physical and virtual infrastructure to power the next generation of AI”, Trump explained.
Here’s what we know about Karoline Leavitt.
What is Karoline Leavitt’s background?
Leavitt hails from the US state of New Hampshire, per the BBC.
She studied communications and political science at Saint Anselm College, a Catholic school in her home state. She ended up landing an internship at the White House before getting a full-time position there.