Karoline Leavitt will leave White House press secretary role in August
Trump said Karoline Leavitt will leave the White House press secretary job by the end of August and serve as an outside adviser.
By Theo Nakamura · Staff Writer
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Karoline Leavitt will leave the White House press secretary role by the end of August, President Donald Trump said Wednesday. For readers following the Karoline Leavitt leaving White House news, the announcement signals a planned departure rather than an immediate exit, and no successor was identified in the reports.
Trump said in a Truth Social post that Leavitt would leave the job to spend more time with her young children and family, according to CNBC and The Hill. He said he respected the decision.
Leavitt later described the choice in her own X post. According to The Hill, she called serving as press secretary “the honor and adventure of a lifetime” and said the decision was bittersweet.
When will Karoline Leavitt leave the White House?
Trump said Leavitt will depart at the end of August. That means she remains in the position until then, based on the announcement reported by CNBC and The Hill.
The White House press secretary provides media briefings on the president’s activities and agenda, according to the White House’s overview of the executive branch. The supplied reports did not name a replacement for Leavitt or describe a formal White House personnel announcement.
Why is Karoline Leavitt leaving her role?
Trump said Leavitt was leaving to spend more time with her children and family. In her own statement, Leavitt said that after returning to the White House following the birth of her daughter, she concluded that the demands of the job prevented her from giving her two children the time, energy and attention she wanted to provide, The Hill reported.
Those are separate accounts of the planned departure: Trump framed it around family time, while Leavitt described the difficulty of combining the role’s constant demands with motherhood.
What will Leavitt do next?
Trump said Leavitt will become one of his top outside advisers and work with the Republican Party ahead of November’s midterm elections, CNBC reported. The Hill reported that Leavitt also said Trump had asked her to continue advising him from outside the White House.
Her future involvement is therefore expected to be political and advisory, rather than a continuation of the press secretary post. Neither report provided further details on the scope of that work.
This story draws on original reporting from CNBC.
