White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt Said she is skipping the April 26 White House Communications Association (WHCA) dinner.
Leavitt made the announcement in a podcast with Sean Spicer, who served as White House press secretary to President Donald Trump, the first six months of 2017.
“I’m not going to attend a White House reporter’s supper, it’s outstanding news for the ‘Shaan Spicer Show’,” Levitt said.
Levitt said Vaka “has indeed become monetized The White House Monopoly and the U.S. President’s report in the United States. ”
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Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt speaks with reporters at the White House on Friday, March 14, 2025 in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
“This is a group of journalists who have covered the White House for decades,” she said in a podcast published Friday. “The reason they started this organization was because the president didn’t have enough press conferences at the time. I don’t think we have this issue anymore under this president, so the media priorities have changed, especially in this new digital age.”
Levitt said the WHCA has been an exclusive journalist covering this White House, and they didn’t really welcome others, new media, independent journalists, open arms, so we think it’s time to expand coverage and determine who is part of the news coverage of 13 people who can ask questions from the president of the Egg Office, questions from the Egg Office, Aboard Air Force Air Force One.
“Since we began to determine the new process of daily rotation, so many new voices and media have never been part of this small and privileged community of journalists, and have been able to access those very unique and privileged spaces and cover this presidency, which is very important,” Leavitt added, adding that the White House has received more than 15,000 applications from news outlets on the new media.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said WHCA “has indeed become the coverage of the White House and the U.S. president.” (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
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The White House said in late February that it would decide which journalists would be part of a 13-person pool composed of limited spaces, such as the Oval Office or Air Force One, departed from the WHCA’s century-old tradition from North Carolina’s century-old tradition and independently chose what the president did when he could not accommodate a full-print company.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt welcomes Vivian Sleeth, a 9-year-old boy from Rockledde, Florida, to fight cancerous brain tumors, her mother Brittany Sleeth arrived at the White House on Friday, March 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Eugene Daniels, chairman of the WHCA board of directors and political correspondent, said the decision “was tearful in the independence of the American free media”, but the White House advocated the move as it modernized the news pool to expand the modernization of the only traditional media. The Trump administration said three traditional wire services – AP, Bloomberg and Reuters – will no longer have a permanent place in the pool, but will instead rotate a position in a 13-person group.
The White House later APs that prohibit news pools Ignore Trump’s executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of the United States. Despite U.S. District Judge Trevor N. McFadden (Trevor N.
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Trump did not attend the WHCA annual dinner in his first semester. Last month, the association took a light shot Comedian Amber Rufen, The writer “Playing with Seth Meyers” will make headlines for this year’s dinner. Rufen told CNN’s Jake Tapper that “no one wants “Trump” to appear, although the president should “attend events that the president and the first lady attended.
