{"id":2645941,"date":"2026-08-17T09:35:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T13:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/two-reasons-trumpworld-thinks-leavitts-replacement-will-be-a-woman\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T09:38:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T13:38:40","slug":"two-reasons-trumpworld-thinks-leavitts-replacement-will-be-a-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/two-reasons-trumpworld-thinks-leavitts-replacement-will-be-a-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"Two reasons Trumpworld thinks Leavitt&#8217;s replacement will be a woman"},"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\">20<\/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%2Ftwo-reasons-trumpworld-thinks-leavitts-replacement-will-be-a-woman%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=2645941&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>Teh article discusses the likelihood that Donald Trump will appoint a woman as his next White House press secretary, continuing a pattern as his presidency began.While past press secretaries like Sean Spicer and Karoline Leavitt were briefly in the role, insiders suggest trump prefers female spokespeople as they are perceived as more effective on television and he trusts women more. Several potential candidates from within his current staff, such as Anna Kelly and Kingsley Wilson, are being considered.Experts and former aides note that Trump&#8217;s bias toward women in this role may be strategic, emphasizing optics and dialogue style, though some view this pattern as reflecting a subtle gender bias. there is a consensus that a woman is likely to fill the position, and Trump&#8217;s choices appear to be intentional, influenced by his perception of gender effectiveness and trust.  <\/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<article class=\"fn-body\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Men need not apply to be President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"4\">Donald Trump\u2019s<\/a> next press secretary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When Trump first entered office in 2017, he tasked <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/sean-spicer\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"1797\">Sean Spicer<\/a> with the job that <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/karoline-leavitt\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"11685\">Karoline Leavitt<\/a>, the youngest press secretary in history, is set to vacate at the end of the month. Spicer lasted some six months behind the briefing room podium, followed by an infamous 10-day period in which <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/anthony-scaramucci\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"2035\">Anthony Scaramucci<\/a> took over as communications director.<\/p>\n<section class=\"explore-more-section\" id=\"wex-recommended-widget\">\n<div class=\"magazine-container single\">\n<h1 class=\"magazine-title mt-2\">Recommended Stories<\/h1>\n<p>             <i class=\"fa-solid fa-play icon\"><\/i>         <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-grid\">\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4689396\/trump-threatens-bomb-oman-if-country-gets-in-way\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Trump threatens to \u2018bomb the s***\u2019 out of Oman if the Gulf country \u2018gets in the way\u2019<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4688641\/trumpworld-karoline-leavitt-replacement-woman\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>The two reasons Trumpworld thinks Leavitt\u2019s replacement will be a woman<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/4688673\/son-of-former-mexican-president-appeals-to-trump-after-visa-revoked\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Son of former Mexican president appeals to Trump after visa revoked<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, all of the president\u2019s ensuing top spokespeople have been women, and Trumpworld insiders believe there is little chance he breaks that pattern come September.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-1\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-1\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-15\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hogan Gidley, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-admin-officials-resign-following-protest-at-capitol-building-which-left-4-people-dead\/\" title=\"Trump admin. officials resign following protest at Capitol Building, which left 4 people dead\">deputy press secretary<\/a> from Trump\u2019s first term, told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> that he thinks Leavitt\u2019s been among the top performers of all of Trump\u2019s <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/white-house-press-secretary\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"1149\">press secretaries<\/a>, in terms of meeting the expectations handed down by the president directly. Gidley said he had no insight into who Trump may be considering but added that he is \u201capt to believe that past is prologue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cEveryone floating a Scott Jennings or a Jason Miller, those people just aren\u2019t paying attention,\u201d a longtime adviser to the president suggested Friday. \u201cIt\u2019s going to be a woman. Easy money bet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4685362\/here-is-who-could-replace-white-house-press-secretary-karoline-leavitt\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4685362\/here-is-who-could-replace-white-house-press-secretary-karoline-leavitt\/\">HERE\u2019S WHO COULD REPLACE WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY KAROLINE LEAVITT<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-16\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-2\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unconfirmed competitors for the role being <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >floated include current top communications officials<\/a> within federal offices. White House principal deputy press secretary Anna Kelly, Leavitt\u2019s second-in-command, has represented the White House increasingly on television and radio. Kingsley Wilson, the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/department-of-defense\/\"><\/a><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/department-of-defense\/\">War<\/a> Department press secretary, has also been floated as she, like Leavitt, was the youngest appointed to her position.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Furthermore, four other former senior Trump White House officials told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> that the president prefers female press secretaries because they\u2019re better on television than their male counterparts and that he flat out \u201ctrusts women more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One senior aide who worked in Trump\u2019s told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> that former <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em> star Melissa McCarthy\u2019s portrayal of Spicer on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-book-claims-alec-baldwin-threatened-to-assault-co-worker-on-set-of-30-rock\/\" title=\"New Book Claims Alec Baldwin Threatened To Assault Co-Worker On Set Of \u201930 Rock\u2019\">weekly sketch comedy show<\/a> particularly annoyed Trump.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-3\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-3\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-17\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-3\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOptics are part of it,\u201d that person said. \u201cLook, I like Sean. I\u2019m friends with Sean. He\u2019s a great dude. He was portrayed by a woman on <em>SNL<\/em>. That didn\u2019t sit well with the president. Again, not Sean\u2019s fault. It just didn\u2019t sit well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHe thinks [women] are more effective, I think when it comes to the style he wants out of the press secretary,\u201d a first-term senior communications aide added. \u201cWhen they\u2019re berating the media, I think it comes off a little bit better, maybe coming from a woman. We\u2019ve seen it not be as effective coming from a man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another former top aide, who has worked for Trump both in the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/white-house\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"8767\">White House<\/a> and on the campaign trail, believes that it has been a \u201cconscious choice\u201d from the president to have women leading both the press shop and, in the case of chief of staff <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/susie-wiles\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"11678\">Susie Wiles<\/a>, the entire White House apparatus.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-4\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-4\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-25\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-4\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAll of his choices are conscious,\u201d the former staffer said. \u201cHe\u2019s thinking through a whole panoply of factors. Gender is most certainly one of those. Think about this \u2014\u00a0first president in history to have two female campaign managers. The first to have a woman chief of staff. He\u2019s put three mothers behind the podium. There\u2019s a pattern here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHe has a tendency to distrust men, and maybe it\u2019s because he feels they\u2019re jockeying for angles and trying to take him down a peg, where his female aides aren\u2019t doing that,\u201d that person added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, Thomas Whalen, a presidential historian at Boston University, told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> that Trump\u2019s proclivity for female press secretaries \u201cbetrays a certain sexual bias\u201d and that the president views \u201cwomen as ornaments for the administration.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-5\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-5\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-26\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-5\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/the-big-beautiful-bill\/\">HOW THE BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL BECAME LAW: READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER\u2019S 10-PART SERIES<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt strikes me as being cynical,\u201d he said in an interview. \u201cWhere can we put a woman to deflect charges of sexism? Well, put them in communications. They\u2019re awfully good at that. They\u2019re empaths.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cTrump always wants someone good-looking, articulate in front of the cameras, and he is kind of like a television director,\u201d Whalen continued. \u201cHe\u2019s kind of using PR gamesmanship. It\u2019s always better to have a woman do the talking when dealing with the Washington press corps than say a guy like Scott Jennings.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Men need not apply for Trump\u2019s next press secretary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2645942,"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\/2026\/08\/AP26058661353681.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[5894,22474,5605],"class_list":["post-2645941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-politics","tag-trumpworld","tag-women"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP26058661353681.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645941","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2645941"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2645945,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645941\/revisions\/2645945"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2645942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2645941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2645941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2645941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}