White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt slammed a French politician this week who demanded that the U.S. return the Statue of Liberty back to France, reminding him that if it was not for the United States, he would likely be speaking German right now.
Leavitt&#8217;s remarks were directed at Raphaël Glucksmann, a member of the the European Parliament and co-president of a small leftist party in France, after remarks that he made over the weekend where he accused the United States of having “chosen to switch to the side of the tyrants.”
“Give us back the Statue of Liberty,” Glucksmann demanded. “It was our gift to you. But apparently you despise her. So she will be happy here with us.”
In response to his remarks, a reporter asked Leavitt if Trump would give back the Statue of Liberty.
&#8220;Absolutely not,&#8221; Leavitt responded. &#8220;And, my advice to that unnamed, low-level French politician would be to remind them that it&#8217;s only because of the United States of America that the French are not speaking German right now.&#8221;
&#8220;So they should be very grateful to our great country,&#8221; she added.
The Statue of Liberty, standing more than 300 feet tall on Liberty Island in New York Harbor, was designed by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and structured by Gustave Eiffel. It was a given to the United States in Paris on July 4, 1884, the 108th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, and was a symbol of friendship between the two countries.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/PressSec?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PressSec</a> responds to the low-level French politician who apparently wants the Statue of Liberty back: &quot;It&#39;s only because of the United States of America that the French are not speaking German right now.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/4JAJKADxWE">pic.twitter.com/4JAJKADxWE</a>
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White House Briefing 3/17/25

Karoline Leavitt Claps Back At French Politician Who Demanded Statue Of Liberty Back

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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt threw a barb at CNN White House Correspondent Kaitlan Collins during Monday&#8217;s press briefing over her question relating to pardons issued by President Joe Biden.
The subject came up following President Donald Trump&#8217;s declaration that he has voided pardons Biden issued during his final days in office that were allegedly signed by an autopen, and not by Biden himself.
Leavitt said that everyone was finally able to agree that Biden was &#8220;cognitively impaired.&#8221;
&#8220;I know it took people some time to finally admit that, but we all know that to be true, as evidenced by his disastrous debate performance against President Trump during the campaign,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I digress on that, but the president was raising the point that, did the president even know about these pardons? Was his legal signature used without his consent or knowledge?&#8221;
She noted that some Biden officials had expressed concern over the issue in a report from the New York Post.
&#8220;I think it&#8217;s a question that everybody in this room should be looking into, because certainly that would [be] perhaps criminal or illegal behavior if staff members were signing the President of the United States&#8217; autograph without his consent,&#8221; she said.
After a brief exchange between the two, Collins asked if there was going to be evidence that Biden was not aware that his signature was used on the pardons.
Leavitt fired back: &#8220;You&#8217;re a reporter, you should find out.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/PressSec?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PressSec</a> on Biden&#39;s autopen pre-emptive pardons: &quot;Did the President even know about these pardons? Was his legal signature used without his consent or knowledge?&#8230; I think it&#39;s a question that everybody in this room should be looking into.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/sH5XLhng9I">pic.twitter.com/sH5XLhng9I</a>
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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt Holds Media Briefing

Karoline Leavitt Torches CNN’s Kaitlan Collins: ‘You’re A Reporter, You Should Find Out’

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WASHINGTON—White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt addressed viral deportation videos put out on social media by President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration, saying that the administration is &#8220;unafraid&#8221; to &#8220;take responsibility and ownership&#8221; of its border policies.
During Monday&#8217;s White House press briefing, The Daily Wire asked Leavitt about new content promoted on social media by the administration&#8217;s top accounts, including the White House, Trump War Room, the Rapid Response 47 account, and others.
One of these videos, posted Monday morning by the White House &#8220;X&#8221; account, depicts illegal immigrants being handcuffed and put on planes to the tune of Semisonic&#8217;s song &#8220;Closing Time,&#8221; specifically the lines: &#8220;You don&#8217;t have to go home but you can&#8217;t stay here.&#8221;
&#8220;I think the White House and our entire government clearly is leaning into the message of this President,&#8221; Leavitt explained, &#8220;and we are unafraid to double down and to take responsibility and ownership of the serious decisions that are being made.&#8221;
&#8220;The President was elected with an overwhelming mandate to launch the largest mass deportation campaign in American history, and that&#8217;s exactly what he is doing and to this very day, we are now, I think 56 or seven days into the administration, by my count, the President still receives an overwhelming public support for the policies that he is enacting, so we are unafraid to message effectively what the president is doing on a daily basis to make our communities safer.&#8221;
&#8220;The specific video you referenced,&#8221; added Leavitt, &#8220;I think it sums up our immigration policy pretty well: &#8216;You don&#8217;t have to go home, but you can&#8217;t stay here.&#8217;”
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Leavitt fielded a number of questions from reporters on Monday about the Trump administration&#8217;s deportation of more than 250 illegal alien gang members to El Salvador over the weekend. Those prisoners included 21 MS-13 gang members and more than 230 Tren de Aragua members, Leavitt noted on Monday.
On Saturday, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg issued an order demanding that the deportations cease. The Trump administration ignored this order, and has since said that the flights were already in the air when the order was issued. The White House is also arguing that the judge did not have any &#8220;lawful basis&#8221; for such an order.
&#8220;The Administration did not ‘refuse to comply’ with a court order,&#8221; Leavitt said in a statement last night. &#8220;The order, which had no lawful basis, was issued after terrorist TdA aliens had already been removed from U.S. territory. The written order and the Administration’s actions do not conflict.&#8221;
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&#8220;Moreover,&#8221; she added, &#8220;as the Supreme Court has repeatedly made clear — federal courts generally have no jurisdiction over the President’s conduct of foreign affairs, his authorities under the Alien Enemies Act, and his core Article II powers to remove foreign alien terrorists from U.S. soil and repel a declared invasion. A single judge in a single city cannot direct the movements of an aircraft carrying foreign alien terrorists who were physically expelled from U.S. soil.&#8221;
Border Czar Tom Homan sparked backlash during a Fox News appearance on Monday when he said of the judge&#8217;s order: &#8220;We are going to make this country safe again&#8230;I&#8217;m proud to be a part of this administration. We are not stopping. I don&#8217;t care what the judges think. I don&#8217;t care what the Left thinks. We&#8217;re coming.&#8221;
Asked what was coming next, he told reporters: &#8220;Another flight. Another flight every day.&#8221;
When a reporter in the briefing room pressed Leavitt about Homan&#8217;s remarks, suggesting that Homan was expressing defiance of orders coming from the federal bench, Leavitt responded: &#8220;Since you quoted Tom, I&#8217;ll quote Tom: &#8216;I don&#8217;t care what the judges think,&#8217; but I can assure you that the administration is complying with the court order.&#8221;
She also told the reporter that the Trump &#8220;administration is complying with the court order,&#8221; that all flights were &#8220;subject to the judge&#8217;s written order departed before the written order,&#8221; and that the Trump White House is &#8220;encouraging illegal immigrants to actively self-deport.&#8221;

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‘Unafraid To Double Down’: Karoline Leavitt Addresses Viral Videos Showing Deportations Of Illegals

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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt slammed a reporter with the Associated Press who challenged her on tariffs during a press briefing last week.
Leavitt&#8217;s remarks on &#8220;Sunday Morning Futures&#8221; come after the AP&#8217;s Josh Boak aggressively questioned her on Tuesday, which led her to say that she was &#8220;insulted&#8221; by the line of questioning before she called on someone else.
&#8220;First of all, with that individual reporter from the Associated Press who tried to test me on tariffs, he clearly fails to see President Trump&#8217;s long term economic strategy, which is to bring in so much revenue, so much wealth into our country through tariffs that we can give larger tax cuts to the American people to put more money back into their pockets,&#8221; she said.
She added that he &#8220;clearly didn&#8217;t understand that very simple idea.&#8221;
&#8220;But as for the greater mainstream media&#8217;s coverage, I think that example proves that they continue to double down on their failing ways,&#8221; she said. &#8220;They focus on sensationalism, on trying to get a viral moment, rather than asking tough questions with honest integrity and journalistic curiosity, wanting to know the answers. They want to make a name for themselves.&#8221;
&#8220;And that&#8217;s why the trust in the mainstream media has fallen to record lows, and that&#8217;s why at the White House, we are very proud of the changes that we have made to the briefing room and also to the press coverage of this President, welcoming in independent voices and new media who truly care about the truth, honesty, and accuracy,&#8221; she added.
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Today exclusively on <a href="https://twitter.com/SundayFutures?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SundayFutures</a> with <a href="https://twitter.com/MariaBartiromo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MariaBartiromo</a>, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt <a href="https://twitter.com/PressSec?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PressSec</a> spoke about the media&#39;s coverage of President Trump&#39;s second term.<a href="https://twitter.com/FoxNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FoxNews</a> <a href="https://t.co/tWfqzKem3z">pic.twitter.com/tWfqzKem3z</a>
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Karoline Leavitt Rips AP Reporter For Not Understanding ‘Very Simple Idea’

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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt went off on activist judges on Friday for cutting President Donald Trump off at the knees as he seeks to use his executive powers to the fullest legal extent possible.
Leavitt made the remarks outside of the White House when asked about a court ruling from a federal judge that ordered that the administration rehire thousands of workers with probationary status.
Leavitt said that the administration would respond by &#8220;fighting back&#8221; through appealing and using the full weight of the White House Counsel’s Office and lawyers in the federal government &#8220;who believe that this injunction is entirely unconstitutional.&#8221;
&#8220;You cannot have a low-level district court judge filing an injunction to usurp the executive authority of the President of the United States,&#8221; Leavitt said. &#8220;That is completely absurd!&#8221;
&#8220;And as the executive of the executive branch, the president has the ability to fire or hire,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;And you have these lower-level judges who are trying to block this president’s agenda. It’s very clear.&#8221;
Leavitt called attention to the disparities in how the Trump administration has been treated versus how the previous Biden administration had been treated by highlighting the number of injunctions each has faced.
&#8220;In one month, in February, there have been 15 injunctions of this administration and our agenda,&#8221; Leavitt said. &#8220;In three years under the Biden administration, there were 14 injunctions.&#8221;
&#8220;So it’s very clear that there are judicial activists throughout our judicial branch who are trying to block this president’s executive authority,&#8221; she added. &#8220;They are led by partisan activists who are trying to usurp the will of this president and we’re not going to stand for it.&#8221;
Leavitt posted the clip on X where she added: &#8220;The Executive Branch cannot properly function if activist liberal judges can unilaterally block presidential actions over the entire country.&#8221;
&#8220;If a federal district court judge wants executive powers, they can try and run for President themselves,&#8221; she said. &#8220;The Trump Administration will immediately fight back against these absurd and unconstitutional orders.&#8221;
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent Speaks To Reporters At The White House

Karoline Leavitt Vows Trump Will Fully Implement His Agenda Despite Resistance From Activist Judges

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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said that former Columbia grad student Mahmoud Khalil was arrested and his green card revoked for &#8220;siding with terrorists.&#8221;
Leavitt <a href="https://x.com/townhallcom/status/1899515196554768450" target="_blank" rel="noopener">addressed</a> Khalil’s situation during a press conference on Tuesday and said a crime was not necessary to justify the deportation of a foreign national from the United States.
“Under the Immigration and Nationality Act, the secretary of State has the right to revoke a green card or a visa for individuals who are adversarial to the foreign policy and national security interests of the United States of America,” Leavitt said.
“Mahmud Khalil was an individual who was given the privilege of coming to this country to study at one of our nation&#8217;s finest universities and colleges, and he took advantage of that opportunity, of that privilege by siding with terrorists – Hamas terrorists who have killed innocent men, women, and children,” she continued.
Immigration authorities arrested Khalil from his apartment on Columbia University’s campus over the weekend. Khalil had finished his graduate studies at Columbia in December, and planned to walk during the graduation ceremony at the end of the school year.
One of the arresting agents told Khalil’s attorney that his green card had been revoked. Khalil is currently in federal custody.
Khalil is a Syrian national of Palestinian descent who led protests and occupations on Columbia’s campus last year over United States support for Israel. Khalil also served as the spokesman for protesters and was one of the students leading negotiations with university leadership.
Leavitt <a href="https://x.com/EYakoby/status/1899522414314172598" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> later in the press conference that Columbia University has been given a list of students who, along with Khalil, the Trump administration says voiced support for terror groups. She noted that the university has refused to cooperate, however.
“Columbia University has been given the names of other individuals who have engaged in pro-Hamas activity, and they are refusing to help DHS identify those individuals on campus,” Leavitt said. “As the president said very strongly in his statement yesterday, he is not going to tolerate that, and we expect all America&#8217;s colleges and universities to comply with this administration&#8217;s policy.”
A federal judge moved on Monday to block Khalil’s immediate deportation while legal challenges over his arrest and the revocation of his green card play out. In the meantime, it is unclear where he would be deported to. His home country of Syria has descended into chaos under its new leadership, the terror group Hay&#8217;at Tahrir al-Sham, after its former government was toppled late last year.

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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced on Tuesday that the Philadelphia Eagles “enthusiastically accepted” an invitation to come to the White House and celebrate the team’s Super Bowl victory.
During the weekly <a href="https://x.com/nicksortor/status/1899520433092727069">press briefing</a>, Leavitt said she wanted to clear up some fake news about whether or not the White House had extended an invitation to the team, making it clear they had, and that the team was coming following the Eagles&#8217; victory against the Kansas City Chiefs during Super Bowl LIX.
“I can confirm that the Philadelphia Eagles will be here at the White House to celebrate their Super Bowl victory,&#8221; Leavitt said.
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&#8220;I know there was a lot of fake news about an invitation that wasn&#8217;t sent or was sent &#8212; we want to correct the record. We sent an invitation. They enthusiastically accepted and you will see them here on April 28.&#8221;
President Donald Trump recently said the Eagles “deserve” to come to the White House and announced that an invite would be extended to the Super Bowl-winning team.
“They will be, we haven’t yet, but we will be,” <a href="https://x.com/PHLEaglesNation/status/1894504092040306744">Trump said</a>. “I thought it was a great performance by them. Absolutely, they’ll be extended that invitation.”
The president then called on one of the members of his team to “do that right away.”
“We’re going to do it sometime today,” Trump said. “And they deserve to be down here. And we hope to see them.”
ESPN NFL Insider Adam Schefter previously went viral when he shut down rumors and reports floating around on social media claiming the Eagles had declined an invite to attend a ceremony at the White House from Trump.
“To those wondering: Eagles sources say the team is planning on visiting the White House this off-season and looks forward to receiving its invitation,” Schefter posted on <a href="https://x.com/AdamSchefter/status/1894156616246645034">X</a>, making it clear an invitation hadn’t even gone out yet.
In 2018, the Eagles beat the New England Patriots in Super Bowl LII and did not make the trip to the White House due to Trump’s stance that players should stand for the national anthem.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/they-deserve-to-be-down-here-trump-announces-white-house-invite-to-eagles" target="_blank" rel="noopener">‘They Deserve To Be Down Here’: Trump Announces White House Invite To Eagles</a>

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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt torched an Associated Press reporter during Tuesday’s briefing, telling him it was “insulting” that he’d attempted to test her understanding of economics.
The reporter posed a question about the tariffs President Donald Trump has threatened to levy against multiple nations around the globe — tariffs that his administration says are designed to bring about trade deals that are ultimately more balanced and fair — and claimed that they would just be another “tax” that hurt American consumers.
Leavitt pushed back immediately, explaining that the goal was to reach a balance where other nations were not placing massive tariffs on American goods without consequence.
“I think it&#8217;s insulting that you are trying to test my knowledge of economics &#8230; I now regret giving a question to the Associated Press,” Leavitt added.
Adding insult to injury, the photographer who took the iconic photo of President Donald Trump just after his attempted assassination at a Butler, Pennsylvania, rally has won a prestigious award for that image, but is no longer allowed to cover the president.
The photo that captured the moment when Trump stood up — face bloodied and fist raised — as Secret Service agents attempted to rush him off the stage, <a href="https://x.com/whca/status/1899222143746924984" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was awarded</a> Political Photo of the Year by the White House News Photographers Association. But because photographer Evan Vucci is employed by The Associated Press — and his outlet has been banned from the White House — he can no longer cover President Trump.
Vucci complained about the scenario in a <a href="https://x.com/evanvucci/status/1899458557277249877" target="_blank" rel="noopener">post</a> on X, arguing that his photo was proof that he and his outlet — which he claimed was “nonpartisan” — were needed in that space.
&#8220;This photo underscores the importance of eyewitness journalism and AP’s legacy of documenting the presidency,&#8221; Vucci posted, adding, &#8220;I look forward to the day I can once again cover President Trump alongside my colleagues. Now more than ever, independent, nonpartisan photojournalism is essential.&#8221;
The AP was banned from the White House over a refusal to update its style guide to include the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ap-indefinitely-barred-from-white-house-over-use-of-gulf-of-mexico" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gulf of America</a>, as it was recently renamed by President Donald Trump via executive order.
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Taylor Budowich explained, &#8220;While their right to irresponsible and dishonest reporting is protected by the First Amendment, it does not ensure their privilege of unfettered access to limited spaces, like the Oval Office and Air Force One.&#8221;
&#8220;Going forward, that space will now be opened up to the many thousands of reporters who have been barred from covering these intimate areas of the administration,&#8221; Budowich continued, also arguing that the AP&#8217;s refusal to make the change was &#8220;not just divisive, but it also exposes the Associated Press’ commitment to misinformation.&#8221;

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt Holds Daily Briefing

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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt encouraged illegal aliens to leave the United States now or face “much harder consequences” during Tuesday’s press briefing.
Leavitt’s warning came as she showcased the Trump administration’s revised mobile application encouraging illegal aliens to self-deport back to their countries of origin. The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-admin-transforms-bidens-cbp-one-app-leave-now-and-self-deport">restructured app</a>, called the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Home app, allows illegal aliens to &#8220;submit intent to depart&#8221; and &#8220;verify departure&#8221; from the United States.
“The CBP Home app strengthens our mission to secure the border and provides illegal aliens with a straightforward way to leave now before facing much harder consequences later,” Leavitt said during the briefing.
“CBP launched an enhanced home mobile app with a new feature: the intent to depart, which offers unlawfully present aliens, or those aliens whose parole has been revoked, an orderly and defined process to notify the U.S. government to depart the country,” Leavitt added while showing a graphic of the new app.
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The CBP Home App replaces the Biden administration’s CBP One app, which allowed migrants to remotely schedule parole interviews at ports of entry along the border. The program, Trump officials say, was used to enable more than one million foreign nationals into the interior of the country. The app will update on the phones of migrants who downloaded it and used it to gain access to the country.
“The Biden Administration exploited the CBP One App to allow more than 1 million aliens to illegally enter the United States,” DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said on Monday after the repurposed app was announced.
That figure is believed to include roughly a quarter million foreign nationals who would have otherwise been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/over-a-quarter-million-inadmissible-aliens-released-into-u-s-after-using-cbp-app-homeland-security-documents-reveal">deemed inadmissible aliens</a>, but were instead allowed to enter the United States.
“The CBP Home App gives aliens the option to leave now and self-deport, so they may still have the opportunity to return legally in the future and live the American dream,” the DHS Secretary added. “If they don’t, we will find them, we will deport them, and they will never return.”
The new application from the Trump administration comes as Trump’s DHS has carried out a series of ongoing deportation raids across the country. One recent week-long operation by Immigration and Customs Enforcement resulted in the arrest of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/more-than-500-criminal-illegal-aliens-captured-by-ice-in-week-long-houston-raids">more than 600 illegal aliens</a>, including 543 with criminal records, in the Houston area.

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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told The Daily Wire in the briefing room on Wednesday that President Trump will not back down from enforcing his executive orders on girls&#8217; sports.
Trump banned federal funding for schools that promote gender ideology and allow trans-identifying males to play on girls&#8217; sports teams, but Maine — along with several school districts in other states — appear to be defying the orders.
&#8220;We know that the governor of Maine has really pushed back against the president&#8217; executive orders saying that boys should not be in girls&#8217; sports,&#8221; The Daily Wire&#8217;s Mary Margaret Olohan said to the press secretary from the White House&#8217;s special &#8220;new media&#8221; seat at the front of the White House briefing room.
&#8220;I spoke with a lawmaker from Maine this morning who told me she&#8217;d been censured by state lawmakers for calling a man a man and speaking up on this. What is the next move for the White House in this battle to protect the integrity of women&#8217;s sports?&#8221; Olohan asked.
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🚨 <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDailyWire</a>’s <a href="https://twitter.com/MaryMargOlohan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MaryMargOlohan</a> just asked <a href="https://twitter.com/PressSec?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PressSec</a> about <a href="https://twitter.com/GovJanetMills?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GovJanetMills</a> continued defiance of President Trump’s EO, designed to keep biological males out of girls’ sports.
The White House’s response? Bring it on, President Trump will fight for the rights of our girls. <a href="https://t.co/kUhLMIjAOY">pic.twitter.com/kUhLMIjAOY</a>
&mdash; Rep. Laurel Libby (@laurel_libby) <a href="https://twitter.com/laurel_libby/status/1897363555743359335?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 5, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Stunning moment Trump goes back and forth with Maine governor on women&#39;s sports
TRUMP: &quot;You better do it because you&#39;re not gonna get any federal funding &#8230; your population doesn&#39;t want men playing in women&#39;s sports.&quot;<a href="https://t.co/UrqDl65nLx">pic.twitter.com/UrqDl65nLx</a>
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&#8220;Well, the Department of Education has sued the state of Maine as you know. There&#8217;s ongoing litigation,&#8221; Leavitt responded.
&#8220;The president has made a commitment to ensure that states are being held accountable if they continue to allow men in women&#8217;s sports, which he believes is an egregious violation of taxpayer dollars, and so that fight continues, and the president won&#8217;t back down. Again, this is a common sense policy. Eighty percent of the American people, including more than 60% of Democrats, do not want men in women&#8217;s sports so the president will stand by this commitment,&#8221; Leavitt said.
Last month, Democrat lawmakers in Maine <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-will-not-be-silenced-democrats-censure-maines-laurel-libby-for-calling-out-trans-sports-policy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">censured</a> Republican state Representative Laurel Libby for a Facebook <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/boy-wins-girls-pole-vault-championship-in-maine-days-after-state-pledged-to-defy-trump-order" target="_blank" rel="noopener">post</a> that drew attention to a trans-identifying boy who took first place in women’s pole vaulting and helped his school clinch Maine’s Class B state championship by one point.
Also in February, Maine Governor Janet Mills got into a testy exchange with Trump in person when the president hosted governors at the White House.
&#8220;You better do it because you&#8217;re not gonna get any federal funding at all if you don&#8217;t,&#8221; Trump told Mills, referring to his executive order on women&#8217;s sports.
&#8220;Your population doesn&#8217;t want men playing in women&#8217;s sports,&#8221; Trump told her.
&#8220;See you in court,&#8221; Mills responded.
Afterwards, the Department of Education announced a new investigation into the Maine Department of Education over trans-identifying male athletes in women&#8217;s sports.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt Holds Press Briefing At White House

WH Press Sec Tells Daily Wire Trump ‘Won’t Back Down’ On Girls Sports Executive Orders

WH Press Sec Tells Daily Wire Trump 'Won't Back Down' On Girls Sports Executive Orders

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt torched New York Times reporter Peter Baker on Tuesday evening for whining about the White House control over who is in the press pool of reporters who follow the president and get to ask him questions.
&#8220;Having served as a Moscow correspondent in the early days of Putin&#8217;s reign, this reminds me of how the Kremlin took over its own press pool and made sure that only compliant journalists were given access,&#8221; Baker complained on X.
He claimed that the White House removing the Associated Press from the briefing room for not accurately reporting the name of the &#8220;Gulf of America&#8221; was a sign that it would kick out any news organization if the administration &#8220;does not like their questions or stories.&#8221;
&#8220;Every president of both parties going back generations subscribed to the principle that a president doesn&#8217;t pick the press corps that is allowed in the room to ask him questions,&#8221; Baker claimed. &#8220;Trump has just declared that he will.&#8221;
Leavitt fired back on X: &#8220;Give me a break, Peter 🤡.&#8221;
&#8220;Moments after you tweeted this, the President invited journalists into the Oval and took questions for nearly an hour,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;Your hysterical reaction to our long overdue and much needed change to an outdated organization is precisely why we made it.&#8221;
&#8220;Gone are the days where left-wing stenographers posing as journalists, such as yourself, dictate who gets to ask what,&#8221; she added.
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Give me a break, Peter.🤡
Moments after you tweeted this, the President invited journalists into the Oval and took questions for nearly an hour.
Your hysterical reaction to our long overdue and much needed change to an outdated organization is precisely why we made it.
Gone… <a href="https://t.co/dsR4fLWjpD">https://t.co/dsR4fLWjpD</a>
— Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) <a href="https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/1894532798850994221?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 25, 2025</a></blockquote>
Leavitt <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-white-house-strips-whca-of-press-pool-control-opens-access-to-new-voices" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> earlier in the day that the White House will determine which reporters get to follow Trump around in the press pool.
&#8220;For decades, a group of D.C.-based journalists — White House Correspondents Association — has long dictated which journalists get to ask questions of the President of the United States in these most intimate spaces. Not anymore,&#8221; Leavitt said. &#8220;I am proud to announce that we are going to give power back to the people who read your papers, who watch your television shows, and who listen to your radio stations.&#8221;
&#8220;Moving forward, the White House press pool will be determined by the White House press team,&#8221; she added. &#8220;Legacy outlets who have participated in the press pool for decades will still be allowed to join, fear not. But we will also be offering the privilege to well-deserving outlets who have never been allowed to share in this awesome responsibility. Just like we added a new media seat in this briefing room, legacy media outlets who have been here for years will still participate in the pool, but new voices are going to be welcomed in as well.&#8221;

Key Speakers At Day Two Of The Conservative Political Action Conference

Karoline Leavitt Slams NYT Reporter Who Compares Trump White House To Putin’s Kremlin

The New York Times

Vladimir Putin

The White House announced that more than one million federal employees have responded to Elon Musk’s “What did you do last week?” email, roughly a third of the federal workforce.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced the milestone in a Tuesday press conference, &#8220;All federal workers should be working at the same pace as President Trump is working and moving.&#8221;
“This is to ensure that federal workers are not ripping off American taxpayers, that they are showing up to the office and that they are doing their jobs,&#8221; Leavitt <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/25/musk-email-doge-00205966">said</a>, per Politco.
The federal government&#8217;s workforce has grown to approximately 3 million employees, making it one of the nation&#8217;s largest employers with an annual budget impact of hundreds of billions in taxpayer dollars.
Elon Musk announced on Saturday that federal employees would be required to respond to an email from their manager listing five things they had accomplished that week, “Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation,” Musk <a href="https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1893386883444437415">said</a> on X.
Musk’s directive initially <a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/02/24/nx-s1-5307327/musk-federal-workers-email-confusion">caused</a> chaos in D.C., as several agency heads contradicted Musk and told their employees not to respond, while others reportedly said the email response was voluntary.
The Office of Personnel Management quickly confirmed that Musk’s directive would take effect for agencies that had not opted out, as part of the Trump administration’s “commitment to an efficient and accountable federal workforce,” OPM spokeswoman McLaurine Pinover said in a statement.
Though the initial deadline was Monday, that appears to have been extended, with Musk <a href="https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1894177129887404484">writing</a> on X, “Subject to the discretion of the President, [Federal workers] will be given another chance. Failure to respond a second time will result in termination.” An exact date is still not confirmed.
Despite these mixed messages, the relatively high response rate indicates many federal employees chose to comply with the request rather than risk potential job loss.
In the press conference, Leavitt clarified that the president approved of certain departments not participating in the initiative, saying that “the agency heads will determine the best practices for their employees at their specific agencies.”
Leavitt affirmed, “The president and Elon and his entire Cabinet are working as one unified team, and they are implementing these very common sense solutions.&#8221;

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One Million Federal Workers Respond To Musk’s ‘What Did You Do Last Week?’ Email

Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)

Elon Musk