Pop quiz: who do we normally end up hearing from quite a bit during any new president’s term? Sure, certain politicians will become more prominent, especially if they are members of the president’s Cabinet. And in the case of Donald Trump, we certainly end up hearing plenty from his famous family, especially his children. But the person we always hear from the most is the one who is hired to talk to us: the White House Press Secretary.
Now that Donald Trump is president again, his press secretary is Karoline Leavitt. This young, firebrand conservative has made quite an impression throughout her career, but many are just now learning who she is and how much of a glow-up she has gotten in recent months.
How did Leavitt get where she is now, and just how much of a glow-up are we talking about? All you have to do is keep reading to find out!
The beginning of Karoline Leavitt’s political journey
The role of the White House Press Secretary is very prestigious and very niche, so the main question people typically have about Karoline Leavitt is where her political career began. It all goes back to when she was attending St. Anselm Catholic College on a softball scholarship. While there, though, she discovered her real passion wasn’t sports…instead, it was writing political pieces for the school’s newspaper. In these pieces, she frequently used the kind of sweeping language about the media and so-called liberals that was being said by Donald Trump himself.
Soon, Leavitt decided to shoot her shot by applying to work for Trump. She applied and was accepted to a prestigious internship in the presidential correspondence office. The job itself was very simple; she may have wanted to be writing fiery op-eds, but Leavitt instead spent most of her time just writing notes on Trump’s behalf. What she didn’t know at the time, though, was that her success in this position was soft-launching a powerful new career within conservative political circles.
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Working with Donald Trump the first time around
Certain internships are more or less trial runs for a permanent position. That’s what happened with Karoline Leavitt: after she impressed everyone during her internship, she was offered a full-time job working at the presidential correspondence office. This was just another stepping stone, though, and she soon applied to work under Donald Trump’s first White House Press Secretary, Kayleigh McEnany.
In a later interview with The Eagle-Tribune, she admitted how nervous she was during the interview with McEnany herself. Leavitt said she “was visibly shaking and almost blacked out.” Nonetheless, she got the job and proudly described what her new gig entailed: “My role is being the first line of defense with Kayleigh,” Leavitt said. “I’m there to answer questions, play defense. It’s not an easy job.”
Fortunately, she did a great job, and she managed to consistently impress McEnany. During this time, she also impressed Donald Trump, and making a good impression on the president would eventually land Leavitt her most important job of them all.
Her congressional campaign fell flat
This far, Karoline Leavitt’s political career had mostly been a straight line. She went from writing for a school paper to working in the presidential correspondence office, and she parlayed that into a job working directly for the White House Press Secretary. And had Donald Trump won the 2020 election, she likely would have gotten an even more prominent position in his administration.
However, Trump lost, so Leavitt pivoted in a big way by running for Congress. She branded herself a “Generation Z conservative” and hoped she would have enough street cred as a fiery young conservative to become part of the Republican party’s much-needed youth wing. She actually won the primary in New Hampshire but lost out to her much older Democratic opponent, Chris Pappas.
For Karoline Leavitt and her trailblazing career, this was a very rare setback. Fortunately for her, it was only a matter of time before she was working for Donald Trump yet again.
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A brand new job and a brand new look
Once Donald Trump decided to run for president again, he hired Karoline Leavitt to be his campaign secretary. She had impressed him years ago and impressed him yet again on the campaign trail. Once Trump was elected president, he offered Leavitt the big chair at her old job. She was now the White House Press Secretary, the job once held by her hero and mentor, Kayleigh McEnany.
Along the way, Leavitt also treated herself to a glow-up. She was already considered very pretty going into her old gig, so this wasn’t exactly an ugly duckling transformation or anything. But she’s gotten a new wardrobe, new makeup, new hair (love those blowouts!), and more. Some critics have sneeringly claimed that it’s a requirement for the women working for Trump to all look like beauty queens.
But in our opinion, Leavitt is just doing what anyone else would do in her position. She’s already ridden the Trump ticket all the way to the biggest position she could ever snag in the White House. Why not look like a beauty queen while she’s at it?