Well, that didn’t take long. The mainstream media wasted no time launching their first coordinated attack on Karoline Leavitt, the youngest White House press secretary in history, branding her a “spinmeister” after just one briefing. The offense? Not playing by their rules.
CNN’s resident fact-checker Daniel Dale, who seems to have made a career out of nitpicking conservative officials while looking the other way on Democratic failures, led the charge. He accused Leavitt of dodging questions on the temporary spending freeze issued by President Trump—never mind the fact that the administration literally reversed the order a day later after uncovering massive waste in Biden’s woke spending spree.
Of course, the media outrage wasn’t really about the spending freeze itself. It was about who is delivering the message. Leavitt walked into the Brady Press Briefing Room and made one thing crystal clear—this administration is not here to coddle the legacy media. She called out their dishonesty, restructured the press room to give new media voices a chance, and even reinstated press passes for the 440 journalists who were wrongly revoked by Biden’s White House.
And that last point? That’s what really set off the establishment.
For years, the White House press corps has operated like a members-only club, with the Associated Press always getting the first question and the White House Correspondents’ Association deciding who gets a seat. But Leavitt turned that system upside down.
“Starting today, this seat in the front of the room, which is usually occupied by the press secretary’s staff, will be called the ‘new media’ seat,” she announced.
Translation: Independent journalists, podcasters, and conservative media—who have been locked out of White House coverage for years—now get a direct line to the administration. Legacy media can whine all they want, but the fact is millions of Americans don’t trust them anymore.
And it’s about time someone in the White House acknowledged that.
Unlike her predecessors in the Biden administration, who would read pre-scripted talking points and apologize when pressed by reporters, Leavitt wasn’t about to roll over.
Asked whether she would pledge not to lie from the podium, she delivered a firm response:
“I commit to telling the truth from this podium every single day. I commit to speaking on behalf of the president of the United States. That is my job.”
And then came the line that surely sent the press room into a quiet rage:
“And I will say it’s very easy to speak truth from this podium when you have a president who has implemented policies that are wildly popular with the American people—and that is exactly what this administration is doing.”
Boom.
