Karoline's Successor Race HEATS Up As Trump Taps 24-Year-Old Reporter Who 'CAUGHT HIS EYE'

Donald Trump has made a fresh addition to his White House communications team, and the new hire is a 24-year-old reporter who had been covering the president from the White House press pool. Benny Ray Harmony, a White House correspondent for Real America's Voice, has been hired as a spokesperson and assistant press secretary. According to TMZ, Harmony is set to begin her new role on Monday. The move comes after Harmony became a regular presence around the president. She recently traveled with Trump to Ireland, and was also part of the press pool covering his Tennessee trip. TMZ reports that Real America's Voice was given CNN's spot on Air Force One for the Tennessee trip. On September 13, Trump was reportedly seen carrying papers with what appeared to be TMZ's sources say the president had taken a liking to the reporter and wanted her in his team. The White House has also confirmed Harmony's appointment. Principal Deputy Press Secretary Anna Kelly welcomed the new addition, describing Harmony as a familiar voice within the MAGA movement, and saying she would be an addition to the president's communications operation. Benny Ray Harmony has been a trusted voice for the MAGA movement as a White House correspondent. She will be an outstanding addition to President Trump's communications team as an assistant press secretary. We look forward to having her on board. Harmony's appointment comes as Trump continues to look for a permanent replacement for former White House Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt. Leavitt left the role at the end of August after announcing that she wanted to spend more time with her young family following the birth of her second child. At the time, Trump praised Leavitt and said she would remain a trusted outside advisor. Our wonderful White House Press Secretary and one of my most trusted aides, Caroline Leavitt, will be departing her role at the end of the month so she can spend more time with her beautiful young children and family, a decision I totally understand and respect. Meanwhile, Harmony's path to the White House has been relatively quick. She joined Real America's Voice in September 2025 after leaving her previous news anchor position in Illinois. According to Real America's Voice, Harmony joined the network after being suspended by her previous employer following an on-air tribute to Charlie Kirk. The network described her as a Now, just over a year later, Harmony is moving from covering Trump to working directly for his administration. And while she is joining the communications team, TMZ reports that Trump has still not decided who will ultimately take over Leavitt's former position as White House Press Secretary. So for now, Benny Ray Harmony has a new White House title and a front-row seat to the administration she was previously covering from the other side of the press line. And as Harmony steps into the White House, Caroline Leavitt appears to be turning the page with a pointed reminder of what she chose to leave behind. Caroline Leavitt may have left the White House, but is her latest Instagram post quietly sending a message back to her former boss, Donald Trump? A quiet beach moment with her son has now sparked fresh attention, thanks to just four words. The former White House press secretary shared the video on Sept. 27, showing herself on a beach with her 2-year-old son, Nicholas Nico Riccio. In the clip, Leavitt hugs and kisses her son, while the two stand together in the sand. Leavitt kept the post simple. She appeared in a casual outfit, wore her blonde hair loose, and walked barefoot along the beach with Nico pointing toward something in the distance. But it was the caption that caught attention. Leavitt wrote this beneath the video, before also sharing the same moment on her Instagram stories. The Mirror interpreted the caption as a subtle suggestion that family time now means more to Leavitt than the demands of her former job. Her followers appeared to embrace that message, with several encouraging her to enjoy these moments with her children. One commenter told Leavitt there was nothing better than being a mother, while another described her son as a little soldier and encouraged her to enjoy life. Others urged her to make the most of her children while they are young. And this was not the first time Leavitt has contrasted her new routine with the White House days. Earlier in September, she shared a photo of herself holding her newborn daughter, Viviana, who was born on May 1st. In that post, she shared a poem about waking up with a child being the perfect start to the day. Adding her own reflection, Leavitt wrote that slow mornings with my babies were something she never enjoyed because of the demands of her job. Those posts offer more context for her decision to leave the White House. Leavitt announced her resignation on August 12th, saying motherhood had become increasingly difficult to balance with the demands of serving as press secretary. Leavitt had made history as the youngest White House press secretary, but her departure marked a major change from the highly public role she had held under U.S. President Trump. Since leaving, her social media has increasingly focused on a very different side of her life, her children, family routines, and moments that would have been difficult to fit around the relentless schedule of the White House. And while Caroline Leavitt's new life away from the White House is drawing attention through her family-focused social media posts, her accidental Instagram livestream is now creating a very different kind of buzz, even putting her unexpected viewership against Trump TV's struggling numbers. President Donald Trump's so-called Trump TV has already hit a new low, but the most embarrassing moment may have come from an entirely accidental Instagram livestream. The channel, which is essentially a livestream running through the White House YouTube account, launched as Trump took his fight with the mainstream press to another level. It opened with around 8,500 viewers before the audience numbers began sliding. At one point on Sunday, the stream had fewer than 200 people watching. But then came Caroline Leavitt. Just before 2 p.m. Eastern on Sunday, the former White House press secretary accidentally went live on Instagram while lying in bed with her 5-month-old daughter, Viviana. Leavitt, who is 29, appeared visibly shocked when she realized the livestream was running and quickly cut it off without saying a word. She later explained the blunder in a saying she had accidentally gone live while trying to edit a reel. She apologized to anyone who got excited, joked that she might go live properly sometime soon to answer questions, and signed off by saying she and her daughter were going to take their Sunday nap. And that tiny mistake immediately created a very awkward comparison for Trump TV. A screenshot showed Leavitt's accidental livestream pulling exactly 1,157 viewers. That was far more than Trump's new White House stream was attracting at the time. The exact Trump TV audience at 2 p.m. is unclear, but later, fewer than 200 people were watching. And that low viewership has apparently become a recurring problem for the channel, despite the White House describing it as essential. Trump TV arrived after Trump escalated his battle with the press. Last week, the White House banned CNN, MSN Now, and Politico from its premises. Then NBC, ABC, CBS, and even Fox News suspended their pooled coverage of Trump in solidarity. Trump responded by launching the White House YouTube livestream last Monday, drawing roughly 8,500 viewers at launch before the numbers fell dramatically. And there's another reason Caroline Leavitt is making headlines. She is now facing backlash from parts of Trump's MAGA base after revealing details of a private lunch involving Trump and then-British Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Is Caroline Leavitt leaking Donald Trump's classified conversations with world leaders? The former White House press secretary is facing backlash, and this time, it is coming from the president's own MAGA circle. Leavitt has been accused of gossiping about a private lunch involving Donald Trump and former British Prime Minister Keir Starmer last year. Leavitt, who stepped down from her post last month, appeared on Hangout with Sean Hannity, wherein she spilled details of a private lunch between the two leaders. According to the Irish star, Leavitt claimed Trump ripped into then-British Prime Minister. Leavitt appeared on the podcast, where she revealed how Trump ripped into Britain's then-Prime Minister Keir Starmer during a private lunch last year. According to Leavitt, she and Trump were guests, and the president took the opportunity to slam Britain's border policy during lunch hour. On the podcast, Leavitt said, and I quote, We're sitting around the table, and we're all enjoying lunch, and we're in this beautiful place, and the president just starts ripping into him for his policies. Quoting Trump, Leavitt added, Leavitt added that she and Stephen Miller, Trump's top policy boss, exchanged a look following the president's outburst. She said, And he's just, I remember Stephen Miller and I looking at each other like, oh boy, here we go. Leavitt's revelation triggered a fierce backlash from Trump's supporters on social media. Greg Kelly, a host for Newsmax, a network Trump favors, wrote a scathing post accusing Leavitt of breaching the president's trust. Kelly wrote, and I quote, world leaders, we're in the middle of midterm madness, and Caroline, with a K, dishes without a care in the world, a breach of trust, the president's and the nation's, so immature. Caroline Leavitt stepped down as White House press secretary in August, saying she wanted to dedicate more time to her family. Trump had joked, saying he was upset about Leavitt's departure. And our press secretary, mother of two, and well, she decided she loved her children more than she loved Donald Trump. I'm very upset about this. She has to go home and spend time with the children. That does happen on occasion with some people when they love their children, and she does. And Caroline, congratulations on your newborn, your perfect newborn. And she's done a fantastic job. She's been a great, great press secretary. Now, if I say you're the best of all time, I have Sarah sitting here, so I'll have, but let's put it this way. They were both great. OK, is that all right? Recently, Leavitt had appeared on Fox News with Sean Hannity, in which the anchor had dropped a hint about the former White House aide's next career move.