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Boiler Room

News, notes, and observations on the superficial changes inside the Brady Room and the far more significant transformations under the hood within the D.C. media industrial complex.

Karoline Leavitt
On Tuesday, all the other familiar stalwarts of the White House press corps packed into the Brady Briefing Room for their first televised tête-à-tête with Karoline Leavitt, President Trump’s new twentysomething press secretary. Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
Dylan Byers
January 30, 2025

On Tuesday, Peter Alexander, Zeke Miller, Jennifer Jacobs and all the other familiar stalwarts of the White House press corps packed into the Brady Briefing Room for their first televised tête-à-tête with Karoline Leavitt, President Trump’s new twentysomething press secretary. Leavitt detailed Trump’s flurry of first-week executive actions—a “golden age of America,” in her words—before announcing some changes intended “to adapt this White House to the new media landscape of 2025.” Chief among them was the creation of a “new media” seat, located to the side of the podium where White House staff usually sit.