The press office trolled the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) on Wednesday, hanging campaign posters of press secretary Karoline Leavitt for the organization’s top position.
The WHCA will hold elections beginning Friday for several board positions, as well as for president, in the third year of President Donald Trump’s term. Ahead of the elections, reporters who are running for a position hang campaign posters around the White House press wing. White House officials hung posters promoting Leavitt for president of the WHCA next to reporters’ posters Wednesday.
Hanging around the White House press wing this morning: campaign posters promoting @PressSec Karoline Leavitt for president of the WH Correspondents’ Association.
Elections for new leadership of the WHCA start on Friday. pic.twitter.com/mCjbegjarh
— Reagan Reese (@reaganreese_) June 4, 2025
The WHCA for years has overseen how the press covers the White House. At her first press briefing, Leavitt unveiled a new addition to the White House briefing room, explaining that seats in the area typically reserved for staff will be given to outlets who do not officially hold a place in the room.
A month later, Leavitt announced another shake-up, taking control of the White House press pool, the select group of reporters assigned each day to cover the president and transcribe and syndicate his remarks, from the WHCA. In March, the White House started to prepare for a shake-up of the James S. Brady press briefing room, an official confirmed to the Daily Caller. (RELATED: White House Correspondents’ Association Drops Anti-Trump Comedian Amber Ruffin From Annual Dinner)
“As you all know for decades, a group of D.C.-based journalists the White House Correspondents’ Association has long dictated which journalists get to ask questions of the president of the United States, and these most intimate spaces. Not anymore,” Leavitt said at her first briefing.
“As I have said since the first day behind this podium, it’s beyond time that the White House press operation reflects the media habits of the American people in 2025, not 1925. A select group of D.C.-based journalists should no longer have a monopoly over the privilege of press access at the White House. All journalists, outlets and voices deserve a seat at this highly coveted table,” Leavitt continued.
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