Trump’s Pitch to Karoline Leavitt for Shocking ‘Last Legacy’ Exposed

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images President Donald Trump made a shocking “last legacy” pitch to Karoline Leavitt days before she left his administration, insiders have revealed.

In front of a gaggle of top aides in the Oval Office, Trump told his 29-year-old press secretary to permanently remove journalists from the White House’s James S.

Brady Press Briefing Room, according to three people familiar with the discussions who spoke to The New York Times .

Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, authors of Regime Change , the bombshell book about Trump 2.0, said Trump told her it would be her “last legacy.” Leavitt left the White House on August 27 to focus on her family after having a child in May, and has since landed a job at Fox News .

She never acted on Trump’s latest anti-press brainwave.

Haberman and Swan’s insiders said that the president had pressed her to do so over a period of months, but the media remained in the James S.

Brady Press Briefing Room.

The room once had a swimming pool.

President Franklin D.

Roosevelt, who suffered from polio, added it in 1933.

Trump, who said in July that he hasn’t owned a “bathing suit in a long time,” is said to have wanted the dedicated press area changed back into a pool.

President Richard Nixon converted the White House indoor swimming pool into the Press Briefing Room, beginning in 1969.

Trump has floated the idea of evicting the press from the White House before, but, as his tight circle grows smaller and becomes stacked with more loyalists, the idea has gained traction again.

Steven Cheung, the White House communications director, did little to dispel the notion.