Who will be Trump's next White House press secretary?
The job has been open since August 12, and the man most likely to take it would lose more than half his salary to do it
Karoline Leavitt has 10 days left at the podium. Trump announced on August 12 that his press secretary leaves at the end of the month to be with her children, and Polymarket's press secretary market opened the next day with Scott Jennings on top of the board at 35.6 cents. We think betting against him is a smart move to capture 51%.
The contract settles on whoever the White House names as the permanent replacement by December 31. If nobody is named, all 20 listed candidates pay zero.
Trump has replaced a press secretary four times and has never once taken his time over it. Sarah Sanders was named the day Sean Spicer quit in July 2017. Stephanie Grisham arrived 12 days after Sanders announced her exit in June 2019. Kayleigh McEnany replaced Grisham the same day in April 2020, and Leavitt herself was named ten days after the 2024 election.
It is day nine, and there is nothing. A senior official told NBC the job might stay open until after the midterms, with Vance, Rubio and Bessent rotating through the briefing room in the meantime. NOTUS reported on August 19 that Trump is in no hurry, wants a man in the job to stop the comparisons with Leavitt, and is interested in Jennings without being sold on him.
Jennings carries the loudest case and the longest list of objections. He earns more than $500,000 a year at CNN against a federal cap of $195,200, and in 2021 he wrote that Trump caused the January 6 insurrection with his lies. He met Susie Wiles last weekend, and Politico reported on August 20 that no offer has been extended. When the first shortlist appeared, an official told Axios that nobody on it would get the job.
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