Karoline Leavitt calls President Trump kind, hilarious, and the best boss even after she left the White House to raise her two young children.
Former White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told Instagram followers she still sees a side of President Donald Trump that most coverage never shows, and she is not shy about saying it.
In a candid Q&A while traveling Wednesday, the 29-year-old answered questions about her old boss, her decision to leave the West Wing, her new Fox News role, and the reality of life with two little kids. She made history as the youngest White House press secretary and served from January 2025 until August 2026.
Her message was plain. The job demanded everything. Home comes first now.
Followers asked what Trump is really like. Leavitt did not hedge.
She wrote:
"Yes! He’s the best boss,"
She added that people miss the private version of the president because cameras rarely catch it.
Leavitt continued:
"People don’t see this side of him because the media doesn’t show it but he has been nothing but kind and uplifting to me, even since departing,"
She closed the thought with a lighter note: he is also hilarious, and she loves him. That loyalty tracks with other figures who have moved through Trump’s orbit, including Alina Habba’s next chapter outside full-time legal combat.
Leavitt’s praise lands after she already left the building. She is not auditioning for a promotion. She is describing the boss she had.
The same Q&A made clear why she walked away from the podium. The press secretary post was not a standard office job.
Leavitt explained:
"As Press Sec, I was working in the office 60+ hours a week, traveling the world, and always on call 24/7,"
Then she drew the contrast without apology.
She wrote:
"Now, I am home with my kids every day and doing some TV hits. These things are not the same, ma’am."
That tradeoff is the core of her story. Elite Washington often treats family as a branding line. Leavitt treated it as the reason to leave. Staff turnover and new assignments have marked the broader Trump team as well, including moves like the White House counsel bench nomination as personnel shifted.
She did not claim the old job was easy to quit. She claimed it was the right call.
Leaving the White House did not mean leaving the fight. FOX News Media CEO Suzanne Scott announced Leavitt’s new role earlier this month. Leavitt confirmed the start date herself in the Instagram exchange.
She told followers:
"I will be officially joining Fox News as a TV Contributor on November 1st, so I will continue making appearances on various shows!"
She is expected to offer commentary across the network’s programming. For a former press secretary who already knows the arguments cold, the jump is a natural fit, same battles, different hours.
The calendar gives her a clear next step without the 24/7 leash of the Brady Briefing Room.
Fans also asked about downtime. Leavitt’s answer was blunt and familiar to any parent of young children.
She replied that she does not have free time. As a mom of two littles, she is lucky if she can take a shower in peace. She called it the season of life she is in, and said she would not have it any other way.
That is not a complaint dressed up as gratitude. It is a choice stated out loud. After years of travel and constant availability, she is home every day. The shower line will ring truer to working mothers than any polished speech about “balance.”
Her path into politics already showed the same drive. She worked as a presidential writer and assistant press secretary in Trump’s first administration, served as communications director for then-House Republican Conference Chair Rep. Elise Stefanik, and ran as a Republican for New Hampshire’s 1st Congressional District in 2022. Early on she even interned at NBC Sports Boston when she considered sideline reporting.
Younger followers wanted a roadmap. Leavitt kept it practical.
Her advice was to get real-world experience in college, chase internships, say yes to opportunities, and work through the summers instead of coasting. Classroom lessons help, she said, but work is where people learn how the game actually runs.
That counsel matches her own climb, from internships and early Trump administration roles to the podium as the youngest press secretary in White House history. It also sits in a wider stretch of Trump-world legal and political fights voters still track, from pressure on New York Attorney General Letitia James to long-running court battles.
She is not selling a secret formula. She is telling ambitious kids to show up and work.
Leavitt’s Instagram session pulled three threads tight at once: loyalty to a president she still calls kind, a hard exit from a grinding White House job, and a public bet on motherhood first. The same audience that watches Trump’s legal and personnel dramas, including fights that reached the Supreme Court on a dismissed Clinton lawsuit, also gets a simpler scene here: a former press secretary choosing home, then stepping onto Fox’s air with her eyes open.
Washington rarely rewards people who step back for their kids. Leavitt did it anyway, and still speaks of Trump with clear affection.