White house secretary Caroline Leavitt She said she was skipping the dinner of the White House Association (whca) for April 26.
Leavitt announced during the Podcast appearance with Sean Spicer, who, for the first six months of 2017, performed the post of President of the White House of President Donald Trump.
“I will not be present at the White House dinner, which is the news for the” Sean Spicer Show, “Leavitt said.
Leavitt said whca “truly became a spin a monopoly over a white house and the coverage of the President of the United States in America. ”
Print secretary Caroline Leavitt talks to 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 at Podcasta posted on Friday. “They started this organization because then the presidents did not work enough press conferences. I think we no longer have this problem, so the media priorities have moved, especially with this new digital age.”
Leavitt said whca was a “exclusive group of journalists covering this white house, they didn’t really welcome other people, new media, independent journalists, with open weapons, so we thought it was time to expand coverage and determine who would be part of that printing of 13 people, which sets the President of the United States in Air Force,” Air-Arrad.
“Since we started this new process of determining daily rotation, so many new votes and outlets that were never part of this small and privileged group of journalists managed to approach these very unique and privileged spaces and cover this Presidency and this is very important,” Leavitt added, revealing that the White House has received more than 15,000 reports in Novi Media.
Karolina Leavitt White House Secretary said whca “truly became a brought monopoly over a white house and coverage of the President of the United States in America.” (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
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At the end of February, the White House announced that the journalists would decide which part of the 13-member pool that covered Trump in limited premises, such as an oval office or aviation, by breaking from the centuries-old Whcca tradition, independently of which news goes where the president seems to be placed Full Press Corp.
The Karolina Leavitt White House secretary is welcomed by Vivian Sleeth, a nine -year -old from Rockkledge, Florida, fighting a cancerous brain tumor, and her mother Brittany slept in the White House on Friday, March 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Eugene Daniels, Chairman of the Whcco Committee, said that the decision was “tears because of free printing independence in the United States”, but the White House advocated the move as a modernization of a press pool to expand only the inherited media. Trump’s administration said three traditional wire-Associated Press, Bloomberg and Reuters-will no longer have a permanent place in the pool and will instead rotate one place in a group with 13 members.
White house later forbidden by AP from printing house To ignore Trump’s executive order by rencing the Gulf of Mexico to the American Bay. The ban was temporarily supported in the Federal Court, although the U.S. District Court judge, in Trevor N. McFadden, warned that the case law did not favor the White House and scheduled another hearing for March 20.
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Trump did not attend the Whcco Annual Dinner during his first term. Last month the association touched Comedian Amber Ruffin, The writer for “Late Show with Seth Meyers” for the title of this year’s dinner. Ruffin told CNN in Jake Tapper that “no one wants Trump to appear, although the president” should go to an event that traditionally attends the president and the first lady.
