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Press Briefing: Karoline Leavitt Speaks to Reporters Outside the White House - December 16, 2025

12:00 AM
Question 00:00:00-00:00:00 (1 sec)

Hi, Karoline.

Karoline Leavitt 00:00:00-00:00:01 ( sec)

Hi.

Question 00:00:01-00:00:07 (6 sec)

Karoline, does the white House view Vanity Fair's article on Susie Wiles as a [Inaudible] Karoline, can we expect any other announcements?

Karoline Leavitt 00:00:07-00:00:25 (18 sec)

I'll say a couple of things on that. First of all, as you all saw on Truth Social, President Trump is going to be giving a joint address -- or an address to the nation, not a joint address, an address to the nation tomorrow night live from the White House here, 9:00 Eastern. I know you guys will all be tuning in. It's going to be a really good speech.

Karoline Leavitt 00:00:25-00:00:40 (16 sec)

I was just in the Oval Office with the president discussing it. He's going to talk a lot about the accomplishments over the past 11 months, all that he's done to bring our country back to greatness and all he continues to plan to do to continue delivering for the American people over the next three years.

Karoline Leavitt 00:00:40-00:00:57 (17 sec)

As for the Vanity Fair article, Michael, I'll take your question directly. This is unfortunately another example of disingenuous reporting, where you have a reporter who took the chief of staff's words wildly out of context, did not include the context those conversations were had within.

Karoline Leavitt 00:00:57-00:01:08 (11 sec)

And then further, I think the most egregious part of this article was the bias of omission that was clearly present, and we see a lot of this when dealing with the media every day.

Karoline Leavitt 00:01:08-00:01:26 (18 sec)

You will leave out important context, leave out comments and facts. You know, many people in this building spoke with that reporter and those comments were never included in the story, probably because it didn't push this false narrative of chaos and confusion that the reporter was clearly trying to push.

Karoline Leavitt 00:01:26-00:01:51 (25 sec)

So what I'll say about our chief of staff, as you've seen from not just myself, but also the entire cabinet in a groundswell of support from people on Capitol Hill who don't even work in this building, about how incredible Susie Wiles has been to President Trump. And he's been able to accomplish so much because of his leadership and his tenacity, but also because of Chief of Staff Wiles' leadership and her ability to effectuate his agenda.

Karoline Leavitt 00:01:51-00:01:53 (2 sec)

So thank you.