Conservative Rally Around ‘Rock Star’ Leavitt After First White House Briefing: ‘Competence is back’

Conservatives on social media praised the recently clarified press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s performance at her first press conference on Tuesday and made the case that her tenure would be a welcome change from the previous administration.

Leavitt joined the White House Pressroom Podium Tuesday and answered questions from more than a dozen journalists with different political attachments and spoke for almost an hour on Tuesday.

When Leavitt approached the media, Conservatives responded to social media with positive reviews of her handling of the questions and the various journalists she called for.

“Karoline Leavitt is a rock star,” actor James Woods Sent on x. “These next four years will be sublime.”

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Press Secretary in the White House Karoline Leavitt, Left, and her predecessor, Karine Jean-Pierre (Getty)

“Well @arkolineleavitt is definitely up to the job,” Fox News -contributors Joey Jones Sent on x. “Impressive, but not surprising.”

“Both KJP and Jen Psaki were extremely dependent on their large binders that are marmaladed with scripted voice points,” talk show host addison smith Sent on x. “Today, @karolineleavitt went to the podium for the first time with a few sheets of paper that she hardly even looked at. Competence is back.”

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The White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will hold her first news conference on January 28, 2025. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

“Damn White House Press Secretary @karolineleavitt Absolutely smoking left -wing journalists,” Outkick -founder and radio host Clay Travis Sent on x.

“This press secretary – Karoline Leavitt – is so refreshingly clear in the positions she articulates,” Rush Limbaugh’s long -time friend and producer, James Golden, Sent on x. “No dancing about facts, no avoidance of questions, as opposed to the previous press secretary.”

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The White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt speaks at the daily briefing on January 28, 2025. (AP)

“Karoline Leavitt is 30 minutes into a press briefing and she hasn’t turned up a single answer yet,” Fox News contributors and comedian Jimmy Faila Sent on x. “KJP would have gone through three binders and a Magic 8 ball now. This is why people will ditch dei for meritocracy.”

“How refreshing with a press sec on the podium that can answer questions directly and without reading words for words from a manuscript,” Coign Vice President Cassie Smedile Docksey Sent on x. “We’re back so. “

Leavitt, 27, is the youngest press secretary in the country’s history and surpasses President Richard Nixon’s press secretary, Ron Ziegler, who was 29 years old when he took the same position in 1969. Leavitt was a tough defender of Trump throughout his campaign against former Vice President Kamala Harris and also made his own political mark with a congressional race in 2022.

Leavitt served in Trump’s first administration as assistant press secretary before working as a New York Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik’s communications director after the 2020 election. She launched a congregation campaign in her home state of New Hampshire in the 2022 cycle and won her primary, but lost the election to a Democrat.

Leavitt picked up the torch from press secretary From the Biden administration’s head of spokesman, Karine Jean-Pierre.

Fox News Digital’s Emma Colton contributed to this report.