Trump press secretary Karoline Leavitt gives warning to 'legacy media' as she breaks silence on first two weeks

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has had a whirlwind 2 weeks successful the job, winning legions of caller fans for her putdowns and earning nicknames specified arsenic 'fake quality grim reaper' and the 'spinmeister.'

She has appeared successful the briefing country doubly successful the past week and kept up a dependable watercourse of TV appearances.

The effect has a slew of headlines complaining that Donald Trump is flooding the media with news, making it hard for factcheckers and opponents to deed back.

Leavitt says there's lone 1 crushed for the accelerated gait successful the White House property shop.  

'I deliberation the main operator for doing truthful overmuch successful specified a abbreviated magnitude of clip is the president's tendency to deliver,' she tells DailyMail.com successful her West Wing bureau arsenic she reflects connected a engaged week successful the spotlight.

He told his modulation squad helium planned to motion arsenic overmuch arsenic helium could, arsenic accelerated arsenic helium could, she continues, to amusement that helium was going to support his run promises.

'And truthful we've done a lot,' she says without the slightest hint of an apology. 'I deliberation it's precise hard for the bequest media, particularly the cablegram quality folks, to support up with each we are doing.'

Her table is covered with printouts, dotted with handwriting, arsenic she prepares for her 2nd briefing of the week. 

She has to beryllium acceptable to grip thing from follow-ups connected the president's assertion that diverseness hires were down the Reagan airdrome disaster, to the latest successful Ukraine.

The occupation is 1 of the highest illustration successful the White House—second lone to the president—and arsenic the look of the medication each wardrobe alteration oregon hairsbreadth benignant is taxable to aggravated scrutiny. 

On apical of that, she was a changeless beingness astatine the president's broadside during his archetypal travel of his 2nd presidency, flying with him connected Air Force One to North Carolina, California, Nevada, and Florida implicit 4 days.

Grueling capable for anyone, fto unsocial a 27-year-old parent with a six-month-old astatine home.

A time aft flying backmost into Washington she gave her archetypal White House briefing to the assembled property corps.

And she wasted nary clip successful telling them what she thought of them. 

'Americans’ spot successful wide media has fallen to a grounds low,' she said consecutive disconnected the top, arsenic she announced plans to bring successful caller media and the benignant of bloggers and podcasters who had been denied entree successful the past. 

It was each delivered with the benignant of pleasant grin that suggested she was the matron of a location for the demented and the infirm, welcoming the inmates to a beverage party.

Yet adjacent the New York Times managed a backhanded compliment, describing her arsenic 'steely and unflinching' successful its headline.

And CNN's factchecker called her a 'spinmeister,' arsenic if property secretaries down the ages person not avoided tricky questions oregon massaged the facts.

Another nickname arrived a time later, during a testy speech with Good Morning America big Michael Strahan. 

He probed her astir plans to unit national authorities workers backmost into their offices.

'Is determination immoderate interest that we hazard losing radical with years of acquisition similar doctors and let's say, scientists?' helium asked.

Leavitt changeable back: 'Well astir doctors who enactment successful existent hospitals and aesculapian institutions person to amusement up successful the office.'

It was a wide triumph for the youngest property caput successful history. Her supporters celebrated the triumph online and dubbed her the 'fake quality grim reaper.'

Video of the speech went viral connected societal media, rapidly earning much than 3 cardinal views. 

On Friday she was back successful the briefing room to nonstop journalists location with a clump of headlines. It is each portion of a cadence that volition spot her successful beforehand of the media 3 times a week connected Monday, Wednesday, Friday, unless the president is doing his ain property conference.

She outlined plans for the Israeli premier curate to sojourn adjacent week and previewed swingeing caller tariffs connected Canada, Mexico, and China astatine the weekend.

But successful a motion of however this medication is airy years distant from the 1 that near bureau 2 weeks ago, she besides had to support the president's usage of an expletive a time earlier.

There was adjacent clip to mock the media for their uncertainty that the Covid microorganism had leaked from a Chinese laboratory, present that the CIA had decided it was the astir apt mentation (albeit with a debased level of certainty).

'Several years ago, erstwhile I was moving successful this property shop, and President Trump would instrumentality to this podium to little the American radical connected COVID-19, helium suggested that COVID precise good whitethorn person came from a laboratory successful Wuhan, China, and galore members successful this precise country mocked him for that,' she said.

'Said helium was spewing conspiracy theories. He was not. We present cognize that to beryllium the confirmable truth.'

It was conscionable 1 of countless barbs she delivered during the 2nd week of the presidency, and her archetypal week taking halfway stage.

And she told DailyMail.com not to expect immoderate alteration of gait successful the weeks ahead.

'Our squad is made up of exceptionally qualified and hard moving individuals who are present erstwhile the prima is rising and enactment until agelong aft the prima has set,' she said. 

'And you know, I deliberation we are delivering connected what the president promised and doing precisely what the American radical expected retired of a Trump term.'