White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt to skip correspondents dinner

White House press secretary Caroline Levitt She said that she was overcoming the White House Representative Association for April 26.

Levitte announced during the appearance of Podcast with Sean Spicer, who served as White House press secretary Donald Trump for the first six months of 2017.

“I will not attend the White House correspondents dinner, and this is the urgent news of” Sean Spicer’s Show. ”

Levitte said that Whica “has become really specific White House monopoly And the coverage of the president of the United States in America. ”

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Journalist Caroline Levitte is speaking with the White House journalists on Friday, March 14, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/EVAN VUCCI)

“This is a group of journalists who have been covering the White House for decades,” she said in the podcast, which was published on Friday. “They started this organization because the presidents at that time did not do enough press conferences. I don’t think we have this problem anymore under this president, so the priorities of the media have turned, especially with this new digital age.”

Levitte said that WHCA was “an exclusive group of journalists covering this White House, who did not really welcome other people, the new media, and independent journalists, with open arms, so we believed that the time has come to expand the coverage and determining who will become part of the 13 -person press group, who ask the head of the United States questions in the Oval Office, Aboard Air Torp One.

“Since we started this new process of determining the daily rotation, many new votes and outlets have been able to have never been from this small and distinctive group of journalists, and Levitt revealed that the White House had received more than 15,000 requests to the new media seat in the press room.”

White House journalist Caroline Levitte said that “has really become a civil monopoly on the White House and the coverage of the President of the United States in America,” said White House journalist Caroline Levitte. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

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In late February, the White House said that any of the journalists will decide that they will be part of the 13 -member swimming pool covering Trump in limited areas, such as the Oval Office or the first air force, and they will transform from the traditions dating back to a century of agriculture in WHCA independently into any news methods that go to where the President cannot complete Press Corp.

White House journalist Caroline Levitte Vivian Solith, 9 -year -old Rolidege, Florida, is fighting a cancerous brain tumor, and her mother Bretani arrives at the White House, Friday, March 14, 2025. (AP Photo/EVAN VUCCI)

Eugene Daniels, Chairman of the WHCA Board and Politico correspondent, said the decision “tears in the independence of the free press in the United States”, but the White House defended this step to update the press group to expand the scope of the old media only. The Trump administration said the three traditional wire services-Associated Press, Bloomberg and Reuters-have no permanent place in the pool and will instead rotate one place in the 13-member group.

The White House later AP was prevented from gathering the press To ignore Trump’s executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. The ban was temporarily supported in the Federal Court, although the American Partial Court judge, Trevor N. Fujujadin warned that the judicial precedents do not prefer the White House and flog another session on March 20.

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Trump did not attend the annual Whica dinner during his first term. Last month, the association took advantage of Roven, amber comedic actor, A writer in “Late Display with Seth Myers”, to classify dinner this year. Roven Jake Taber told CNN that “nobody wants” to show Trump, although the president “must” go to the event that the president and the first lady attended.