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US President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday named his campaign spokesperson Karoline Leavitt as White House spokesperson in his new administration.
“Smart and tough,” Leavitt “has proven herself to be a very effective communicator,” Trump said in announcing the new appointment, saying he was “confident in her ability to excel from the podium and help convey our message to the American people then that we make America great again.”
At 27, Leavitt will be the youngest person to occupy this key position in the communications strategy of the American presidency. During Trump’s first term (2016-2020), she was deputy spokesperson for the White House.
Two months before the inauguration of the 47th president, the next American administration is already starting to take shape, with pivotal appointments, such as those of Susie Wiles as chief of staff of the White House, Marco Rubio as secretary of State, and Elise Stefanik ambassador to the UN.
The president-elect also named Michael Waltz national security advisor, Tulsi Gabbard director of national intelligence, and John Ratcliffe director of the CIA.
For the deployment of his migration policy, the flagship subject of his electoral campaign, Trump chose Tom Homan to head the American agency responsible for border control and immigration (ICE), and Kristi Noem to head the Department of Defense. Homeland Security.
Robert Kennedy, who abandoned his presidential candidacy to support that of Trump, inherited the post of Secretary of Health, a department which oversees a range of programs linked to public health, food policy, scientific research into health and social security programs, Medicare and Medicaid.
