Kayleigh McEnany is an American conservative political commentator, television personality, and writer. She is best known for serving as the White House Press Secretary under President Donald Trump from April 2020 to January 2021. Before becoming press secretary, she worked as a political commentator for CNN and as the national press secretary for the Trump 2020 campaign. McEnany is known for her staunch defense of Trump administration policies and her often combative interactions with the press.
On April 18, 1988, Kayleigh Michelle McEnany was born. She is an American conservative political commentator, television personality, and writer.
In 2010, after graduating from Georgetown, Kayleigh McEnany spent three years as a producer on the Mike Huckabee Show.
In early 2015, before becoming a Trump supporter, McEnany was highly critical of him, declaring on CNN and Fox Business that "Donald Trump has shown himself to be a showman" and it was "unfortunate" and "inauthentic" to call him a Republican. McEnany called his comments about Mexican immigrants "racist".
In 2016, Kayleigh McEnany graduated from Harvard Law School.
On August 7, 2017, the Republican National Committee (RNC) appointed Kayleigh McEnany as its national spokesperson.
In November 2017, Kayleigh McEnany married Sean Gilmartin, a pitcher in Major League Baseball.
In 2018, Kayleigh McEnany underwent a preventive double mastectomy due to a BRCA mutation.
In August 2019, after The Washington Post reported that Trump had made 16,241 false or misleading statements, McEnany told CNN's Chris Cuomo: "I don't believe the president has lied."
In November 2019, Kayleigh McEnany and Sean Gilmartin welcomed their first daughter.
On April 7, 2020, Mark Meadows's first personnel change was hiring McEnany as White House press secretary.
In April 2020, Kayleigh McEnany defended Trump's assertion that the World Health Organization had shown a "clear bias towards China".
On May 1, 2020, as part of her first public press briefing and the first one by a White House press secretary in 417 days, McEnany was asked if she would pledge to never lie to the press, to which she replied, "I will never lie to you."
Amid reports on May 8, 2020, that the White House was "shelving" the release of COVID-19 re-opening guidelines, McEnany said that the guidelines had not been approved by Robert Redfield, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
In May 2020, McEnany defended Trump's false accusation that Joe Scarborough had a person murdered, offering no evidence in support of the accusation.
In June 2020, Kayleigh McEnany defended the decision by the Trump administration to forcibly remove peaceful protestors so that Trump could stage a photo op in front of St. John's Episcopal Church.
On September 9, 2020, news agencies released the audio recordings of interviews with Trump that Bob Woodward had conducted for his book Rage, in which Trump acknowledged that he was intentionally downplaying the severity of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. In the wake of this development, McEnany falsely asserted, "The president never downplayed the virus."
On October 5, 2020, Kayleigh McEnany tested positive for COVID-19.
In October 2020, Kayleigh McEnany worked again as senior advisor for the Trump 2020 presidential campaign.
On November 20, 2020, Kayleigh McEnany falsely claimed Trump was not given an "orderly transition of power".
In December 2020 Politico named McEnany's prediction, that the US would not see diseases like coronavirus, one of "the most audacious, confident and spectacularly incorrect prognostications about the year".
On March 2, 2021, Kayleigh McEnany became an on-air contributor for Fox News. She later became a co-host of Outnumbered.
In June 2022, Kayleigh McEnany announced that she and her husband were expecting their second child.
In December 2022, Kayleigh McEnany and her husband welcomed a baby boy.
In June 2023, Kayleigh McEnany served as an interim host of Fox News Tonight.
On March 17, 2025, Kayleigh McEnany announced on Outnumbered that she and Sean Gilmartin were expecting their third child in June 2025.
On March 17, 2025, Kayleigh McEnany announced on Outnumbered that she and Sean Gilmartin were expecting their third child in June 2025.
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