She is just 27 years old and she will have a key role: who is Karoline Leavitt, the future spokesperson for the White House?

President-elect Donald Trump announced Friday that he had chosen Karoline Leavitt, 27, to become White House spokesperson, a position as prestigious as it is exposed for the one who proved herself at his side during the campaign.

The appointment of this young press secretary, who will be the daily face of his administration from January 20, comes at the end of a week during which the Republican appointed his closest loyalists to key positions in his future government.

“A very effective communicator”

“Karoline is intelligent, strong and has proven to be a very effective communicator”Donald Trump said in a statement. This strategic position involves answering questions from the press on camera on an almost daily basis. Karine Jean-Pierre, the current holder of the position within the Biden administration, has held this position since May 2022 at the age of 50.

Earlier Friday, the president-elect announced the creation of a National Energy Council (CNE), whose mission will be to “overseeing the path to US energy dominance”and appointed North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum, known for his closeness to the oil and gas industry, as its head.

On Thursday, he announced that he would entrust the Ministry of Health to Robert F. Kennedy Jr, notoriously skeptical of vaccines, and key positions in the Ministry of Justice to the lawyers who personally defend him in his troubles with the law.

As with the choice of thunderous Trumpist Matt Gaetz for the Justice Department, these appointments “meet two criteria: loyalty and rupture”analyzed Thursday for AFP Todd Belt, professor of political science at George Washington University.

“Phenomenal work”

Karoline Leavitt, appointed Friday, “did a phenomenal job as a national spokesperson during my historic campaign and I am pleased to announce that she will serve as White House spokesperson”added Donald Trump, assuring that she “will excel at the pulpit and help us deliver our message to the American people to make America great again.”. She will work under the leadership of Steven Cheung, communications director for the campaign, who will take over this same title at the White House.

Karoline Leavitt previously worked in Congress as communications manager for Elise Stefanik, a 40-year-old representative from New York State, recently appointed by Donald Trump to the post of United States ambassador to the UN. She also personally campaigned, in 2022, to be elected to the House as a representative of the state of New Hampshire, but suffered a defeat.

“I dove into politics at university”

“I didn't grow up in a political family. Like most Americans, I grew up in a middle-class business family here in my home state of New Hampshire. I dove into politics at university”she said in a Fox News podcast Friday.

She recounts having helped a team from this channel popular with conservatives at her university in Saint Anselm, when she was, during the Republican primaries in 2016, “one of the only conservative people on campus”. “That’s when I decided what I wanted to do with my career”she said.

During his first term, Donald Trump worked with several spokespersons, including Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Kayleigh McEnany and Sean Spicer.