""She's someone who not only spoke Trump fluently, she knew how to feed the media beast in a cunning, audacious and successful way that, most importantly, played to her audience: the president."
In her year and a half on the job, Leavitt and White House communications director Steven Cheung transformed the administration's posture toward the media — in ways that some of Trump's allies cheered and free press advocates criticized.
The Trump administration began hand-picking which journalists receive access to the president, jettisoning the long-running system set up by the independent White House Correspondents' Association."
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First seen: 2026-08-14 ·
Last seen: 2026-08-14 ·
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