There was no formal meeting and no big announcement, just a brief phone call.<\/p>\n
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt<\/a> said President Donald Trump<\/a> informed her she had the job in a simple post-election call, telling her: “Oh, by the way, you know, you\u2019re going to be the White House press secretary, right?”<\/p>\n Speaking at a Turning Point USA event<\/a> at George Washington University on Thursday evening, Leavitt described the moment as “the most anti-climatic thing ever” and said the job offer came without any formal process.<\/p>\n “About a week after the election, we were on the phone about something, the president and me, just chit chatting,” Leavitt said.<\/p>\n KAROLINE LEAVITT STOPS BY \u2018RUTHLESS\u2019 TO TOUT TRUMP\u2019S ‘INCREDIBLE’ FIRST SIX MONTHS OF SECOND TERM<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n “And it was the most anti-climatic thing ever. He goes, \u2018Oh, by the way, you know, you\u2019re going to be the White House press secretary, right?\u2019” Leavitt said, to which she responded, “Oh, okay.”<\/p>\n “And he said, \u2018So about that other thing, what do you think about that? What should we do? What should we say?\u2019”<\/p>\n WHITE HOUSE HAS SUGGESTION FOR JASMINE CROCKETT AFTER DEM CALLS TRUMP SUPPORTERS ‘SICK’<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n “That was it. That\u2019s how I got the job,” she said.<\/p>\n Leavitt added there was “no pomp and circumstance,” describing the moment as “true Donald Trump fashion.”<\/p>\n Leavitt said she had worked on Trump\u2019s 2024 campaign after losing her congressional race in New Hampshire<\/a> and was serving as a spokesperson before being tapped for the role following the election.<\/p>\n “There really wasn\u2019t a process,” Leavitt said. “I thought, I hope I\u2019ll get a job. I don\u2019t know if I will.”<\/p>\n Leavitt, who gave birth to her son in July 2024, is currently nine months pregnant with a girl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There was no formal meeting and no big announcement, just a brief phone call. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said President Donald Trump informed her she had the job in a simple post-election call, telling her: “Oh, by the way, you know, you\u2019re going to be the White House press secretary, right?” Speaking at … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}