Karoline Leavitt Claims Trump Is ‘Always’ the ‘Most Well-Read Person in the Room’ 

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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said that whatever room President Donald Trump occupies, he is “always” the most informed person.

Leavitt was at George Washington University on Thursday for a Turning Point USA event, where she was interviewed by Erika Kirk, the widow of TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk. At one point during the exchange, Leavitt passed on some advice that she said former White House Press Secretary Dana Perino once gave her.

“That was a piece of advice one of my predecessors, Dana Perino, gave to me before I took this job,” Leavitt reminisced. “She said, ‘You always want to be the most well-read person in the room.’ And I try to be every day, but Donald Trump always is. That man does not miss a story. Let me tell you, he is always reading the papers and watching the TV. He doesn’t miss anything anyone says in the whole world. I don’t know how he does it and consumes it all. And it’s a lot.”

Leavitt: “You always want to be the most well-read person in the room, and I try to be every day. But Donald Trump always is.”

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) April 2, 2026 at 4:54 PM

Trump administration officials often heap effusive praise on the president. Over the weekend, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. alleged that Trump is able to draw a “perfect map” of the Middle East.

“And we started talking about Syria. And he got a placemat, and he turned it on its back,” Kennedy said. “And then he took a Sharpie, and drew a perfect map of the Mideast. And then, he put the troop strength of every country on every border on that map. And it just challenged a lot of the assumptions that I had been told about him.”

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