{"id":2427664,"date":"2025-04-25T16:04:02","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T20:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/leavitt-says-trump-has-revolutionized-white-house-communication\/"},"modified":"2025-04-25T16:06:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T20:06:44","slug":"leavitt-says-trump-has-revolutionized-white-house-communication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/leavitt-says-trump-has-revolutionized-white-house-communication\/","title":{"rendered":"Leavitt says Trump has &#8216;revolutionized&#8217; White House communication"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fleavitt-says-trump-has-revolutionized-white-house-communication%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2427664&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>in a recent interview with Axios, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt praised former President Donald Trump for &#8220;revolutionizing&#8221; presidential interaction, particularly through his frequent media interactions and use of social media. Leavitt emphasized that Trump&#8217;s approach offers greater openness than that of President Joe Biden, who she claims avoids press engagement. In contrast, Eugene Daniels, president of the White House Correspondents Association (WHCA), criticized Trump&#8217;s treatment of the press, arguing that it has become increasingly unfriendly. Daniels expressed concerns over the non-customary media outlets gaining access to the White House,suggesting thay don&#8217;t meet the same journalistic standards as WHCA members. The discussion on media access and the diverging perspectives culminates as Trump continues to skip the annual White House Correspondents Dinner,an event he has missed each year during his presidency. Leavitt maintains that the management is not infringing on First Amendment rights, while Daniels contends that the American public is being shortchanged by the current state of media relations with the White House.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Leavitt says Trump has &lsquo;revolutionized&rsquo; the way a <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">president communicates<\/a><\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2106273\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>White House press secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/karoline-leavitt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Karoline Leavitt\">Karoline Leavitt<\/a> said President Donald Trump has revolutionized presidential communication as he prepares to skip the annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/white-house-correspondents-dinner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"White House Correspondents Dinner\">White House Correspondents Dinner<\/a> again.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;President Trump has revolutionized the way a president communicates,&rdquo; Leavitt <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/program\/public-affairs-event\/white-house-press-secretary-leavitt-others-on-media-landscape\/659051\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"said\">said<\/a> in an interview with Axios one day before the black tie event, held each year at a Washington, D.C., hotel.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3391332\/trump-crimea-stay-with-russia-in-peace-deal\/\">Trump says &#8216;Crimea will stay with Russia&#8217; in peace deal<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3391326\/trump-teases-200-deals-coming-as-trade-negotiations-continue\/\">Trump teases &#8216;200 deals&#8217; coming as trade negotiations continue<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3391348\/trump-xi-jinping-phone-call-trade-negotiations-china-tariffs\/\">Trump plays coy on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gabbard-refers-alleged-intelligence-leakers-to-doj-for-prosecution-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Gabbard refers alleged intelligence leakers to DOJ for prosecution - Washington Examiner\">apparent trade talks<\/a> with China&#8217;s Xi Jinping<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<div style=\"position:relative;overflow:hidden;padding-bottom:56.25%\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.jwplayer.com\/players\/WPCQ3fev-xS4RtpB7.html\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"auto\" title=\"White%20House%20Press%20Secretary%20Leavitt%20%26%20Others%20on%20Media%20Landscape%20%7C%20C-SPAN.org\" style=\"position:absolute;\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>She played up Trump&rsquo;s frequent interactions with the media in contrast to former President Joe Biden, who &ldquo;hid from the press. &rdquo; She said Trump&rsquo;s direct interaction with the public via social media makes him much more transparent than previous presidents.<\/p>\n<p>However, that&rsquo;s not how White House Correspondents Association President Eugene Daniels sees it.<\/p>\n<p>Daniels <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/program\/public-affairs-event\/interview-with-white-house-correspondents-association-president-eugene-daniels\/658971\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">lamented<\/a> Trump&rsquo;s actions against the press and the WHCA, saying Trump has been even more hostile than he was during his first term.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Just because the White House made the ill-advised decision in taking over the press pool, that doesn&rsquo;t mean the work that we do for our members has stopped,&rdquo; said Daniels, who recently left <em>Politico<\/em> for a hosting gig at MSNBC.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:relative;overflow:hidden;padding-bottom:56.25%\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.jwplayer.com\/players\/t7zimj8I-pd7dBiGO.html\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"auto\" title=\"Interview%20With%20White%20House%20Correspondents'%20Association%20President%20Eugene%20Daniels%20%7C%20C-SPAN.org\" style=\"position:absolute;\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Since taking office for a second time, Trump has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3381780\/trump-removes-wire-service-spot-press-rotation-associated-press\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"kicked\">kicked<\/a> the <em>Associated Press <\/em>out of the Oval Office and off Air Force One, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3329833\/trump-takeover-whca-press-rotation-white-house-events\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"taken over\">taken over<\/a> the rotation for reporters who get privileged access to White House events, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3367279\/trump-briefing-room-takeover-white-house-clashes-with-press\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"threatened to take over\">threatened to take over<\/a> seating assignments in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-we-cant-guarantee-covid-19-relief-by-march\/\" title=\"...: We can\u2019t guarantee COVID-19 relief by March\">press briefing room<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>His administration has portrayed those moves as a win for the media and the public because they allow nontraditional &ldquo;new media&rdquo; outlets inside the White House.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We view it as opening access to more outlets, more voices, more news journalists,&rdquo; Leavitt said.<\/p>\n<p>She also criticized the WHCA board that Daniels leads, calling it a &ldquo;small group of journalists&rdquo; who enjoyed a &ldquo;monopoly&rdquo; over the briefing room and press pool access.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;There should be equal access for all outlets, and that&rsquo;s exactly what we&rsquo;re doing,&rdquo; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Daniels took issue with that characterization on multiple fronts.<\/p>\n<p>One of his core arguments was that government officials, including the president, should not dictate who gets to cover them. Another is that outlets now getting access do not necessarily adhere to the same professional standards as those vetted by the WHCA.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We have quite a bit of our team, our reporters that are in [the pool],&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;But then we have people in there who are asking questions about the president&rsquo;s weight, or whatever, like &lsquo;is he skinny now?&rsquo; and those kinds of things are not what the American people expect from reporters who cover the most important office in the land.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Those differing viewpoints are coming to a head as Trump will miss Saturday&rsquo;s White House Correspondents Dinner, a celebration of the Washington news media that he has never attended as president.<\/p>\n<p>This year, the WHCA also took the unusual step of canceling the evening&rsquo;s entertainer. It would have been comedian Amber Ruffin, but she was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3363379\/white-house-correspondents-association-cancels-comedian\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"scrapped\">scrapped<\/a> after making anti-Trump comments in a podcast interview.<\/p>\n<p>Daniels further argued that now is not the time for jokes.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It feels like a comedic performance &mdash; and we haven&rsquo;t replaced anyone, so we have foregone comedy in general &mdash; the types of videos that we&rsquo;re showing on Saturday night are going to be different and look different than they have in the past,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;They are a little more earnest than funny.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Leavitt rejected the notion that the Trump administration is hurting the press or presidential access, pointing to Trump&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3390241\/trump-signalgate-interview-jeffrey-goldberg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"recent interview\">recent interview<\/a> with <em>Atlantic<\/em> Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg as proof he&rsquo;s not shying away from harsh questions.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We always want to respect the First Amendment,&rdquo; she said, &ldquo;but I don&rsquo;t wrestle with the fact that we&rsquo;re infringing on the First Amendment in any way, because I don&rsquo;t believe that we are.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-transform:uppercase\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3390241\/trump-signalgate-interview-jeffrey-goldberg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Trump to sit for interview with Signalgate journalist Jeffrey Goldberg\">Trump to sit for interview with Signalgate journalist Jeffrey Goldberg<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For now, the White House and the WHCA will have to agree to disagree on that point.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s a new normal that no one asked for,&rdquo; Daniels said. &ldquo;The American people are losing out.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2106273\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2106273\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leavitt claims Trump has transformed presidential communication<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2635,"featured_media":2427665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Karoline-Leavitt-White-House-press.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[15554,50576,27219,3634,32127],"class_list":["post-2427664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-communication","tag-leavitt-2","tag-revolutionized","tag-trump","tag-white-house"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Karoline-Leavitt-White-House-press.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2635"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2427664"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2427668,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427664\/revisions\/2427668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2427665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2427664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2427664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2427664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}