{"id":77327,"date":"2026-08-12T16:54:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T21:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/12\/karoline-leavitt-will-step-down-as-white-house-press-secretary-trump-says\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T16:54:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T21:54:54","slug":"karoline-leavitt-will-step-down-as-white-house-press-secretary-trump-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/12\/karoline-leavitt-will-step-down-as-white-house-press-secretary-trump-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Karoline Leavitt will step down as White House press secretary, Trump says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US president announced departure on social media, saying Leavitt was leaving to \u2018spend more time\u2019 with family<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/aug\/12\/donald-trump-air-force-one-switch-politics-primaries-midterm-elections-results-latest-updates\">US politics \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PressSec\">Karoline Leavitt<\/a> will step down as White House press secretary at the end of August, Donald Trump announced.<\/p>\n<p>The US president <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RapidResponse47\/status\/2087624257446572154?s=20\">revealed her departure<\/a> on social media, saying Leavitt was leaving \u201cso she can spend more time\u201d with her family. The 28-year-old gave birth to a daughter, Viviana, in May, and returned from maternity leave last month.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/aug\/12\/karoline-leavitt-resigns\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US president announced departure on social media, saying Leavitt was leaving to \u2018spend more time\u2019 with family US politics \u2013 live updates Karoline Leavitt will step down as White House press secretary at the end of August, Donald Trump announced. The US president revealed her departure on social media, saying Leavitt was leaving \u201cso she &#8230; <a title=\"Karoline Leavitt will step down as White House press secretary, Trump says\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/12\/karoline-leavitt-will-step-down-as-white-house-press-secretary-trump-says\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Karoline Leavitt will step down as White House press secretary, Trump says\">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-77327","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\/77327","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=77327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}