Karoline Leavitt opens up about pressure of press secretary role: 'There’s so much going on'

WASHINGTON, DC: Talking about the stress caused by her demanding role as White House Press Secretary, Karoline Leavitt said that she gets very little sleep.

Elaborating on her taxing job role, Leavitt said the 24/7 news cycle and Trump himself staying late at night, often working, posting, or making decisions, keep her up at night, resulting in very little sleep.

Karoline Leavitt talks about job stress on Turning Point USA

Karoline Leavitt opened up about her high-stakes job role during a Turning Point USA event held at George Washington University on Thursday, April 2, where she confessed she’s often up late at night doomscrolling the news on her phone.

“I have a tendency not to sleep as well in this job because there’s just so much going on all the time,” Leavitt told host Erika Kirk. “Breaking news. You never know what you’re going to get when you wake up.”

She further said that she has all the fake news media apps on her phone, adding that she often finds herself reading the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post well past midnight.

Discussing her late-night news reading, Karoline Leavitt said her brain and adrenaline begin to slow down as she continues.

Karoline Leavitt's team 'wakes up to messages' she sends at 2 am

Referring to her team, Leavitt added that her team wakes up to messages she would send between 2 am and 4 am every night.

“I’ll make the mistake of being awake at 3 am and reading through some of the stories,” she said. “And my brain’s going … My adrenaline’s going. And my team knows, I see my assistant in the front row, she’s smirking because they’ll wake up to the group chat and I send texts between the hours of like, 2 and 4 a.m. every night.”

Leavitt added, “And I’m like, ‘We need to call this reporter in the morning. This is not true. We need to correct this. Put this statement in this story.’ So, it’s just constant. It’s a 24/7 news cycle we live in.”

Elaborating on her reasons for staying up late, Leavitt said that President Donald Trump also stays up late working and would call at any hour.

“My boss is up all night and probably gonna call at any hour. [He sleeps] very little. Like, maybe four hours a night,” Leavitt noted.

Appreciating Trump’s for working till late, Leavitt added, “I’m a third his age and I can’t keep up. I tell him that all the time.”

Trump calls out Karoline Leavitt for ‘terrible job’

Days ago, Trump complained about the negative publicity surrounding his administration and jokingly told Leavitt publicly that she was doing a ‘terrible job’, apparently in jest.

“I got 93% bad publicity,” he noted to the press corps Tuesday. “Some people say 97, but between 93 and 97 — maybe Karoline is doing a poor job, I don’t know.”

“She’s my representative,” he continued. “You’re doing a terrible job. Should we keep her? I think we’ll keep her.”