WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Thursday named Karine Jean-Pierre to be the next White House press secretary, the first Black woman and openly LGBTQ person to serve in the role. Incumbent Jen Psaki is set to leave the post next week.
Jean-Pierre takes on the role as the White House faces an uphill battle to help Democrats hold onto the House and Senate in this fall’s midterm elections, and as the administration struggles to address Americans’ concerns about soaring inflation and the state of the economy. She also comes into the job as Biden faces a daunting array of foreign policy challenges, including the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine and North Korea’s escalating nuclear testing program. Biden is set to visit South Korea and Japan later this month and Europe in June.
Biden is also bringing back longtime Democratic strategist Anita Dunn as his senior adviser. She had served in the Biden White House last year for several months after Biden was sworn into office.
“Karine not only brings the experience, talent and integrity needed for this difficult job, but she will continue to lead the way in communicating about the work of the Biden-Harris administration on behalf of the American people,” Biden said in a statement praising Jean-Pierre, who has served as his principal deputy press secretary since Inauguration Day.
As I reported in Breaking the News, Karine Jean-Pierre is married to CNN anchor and national correspondent Suzanne Malveaux.
This is one of many examples of the corporate media LITERALLY in bed with the government it covers. https://t.co/TIfOxLywSH
— Alex Marlow (@AlexMarlow) May 5, 2022
Psaki, who leaves the White House on May 13, praised her successor as a “partner in truth,” noting the significance of the history-making appointment.
“Representation matters and she is going to give a voice to so many and show so many what is truly possible when you work hard and dream big,” Psaki said.
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Taking the lectern briefly while Psaki briefed the press Thursday, Jean-Pierre said she was “still processing” the significance of her hire, calling it “an honor and privilege to be behind this podium.”
“This is a historic moment, and it’s not lost on me,” she said. “It’s a very emotional day.”
Psaki said Biden offered the job to Jean-Pierre Thursday in the Oval Office. White House staffers were gathered after the offer and greeted Jean-Pierre with applause, an official said. Two “warm bottles” of champagne were procured for a toast in White House paper cups, the official added, speaking on the condition of anonymity to describe the internal gathering.
Jean-Pierre had occasionally taken the lectern in the press briefing room instead of Psaki and more frequently held off-camera “gaggles” with reporters when Biden was traveling on Air Force One. She traveled with Biden to Europe last fall and in March instead of Psaki, who had tested positive for COVID-19 before both trips.
Before joining the Biden presidential campaign, Jean-Pierre was the chief public affairs officer of the progressive group MoveOn.org and a former political analyst for NBC and MSNBC. She also worked in political affairs in the Obama White House and on his reelection campaign.
The press secretary is responsible for holding daily briefings with the news media and leading a department of more than a dozen staffers who help address queries from the press.
When she took the job, Psaki, who has two young children, said publicly she aimed to remain in the job for about a year. She is expected to join MSNBC later this year. She was expected to remain as the public face of the administration until her departure next Friday.
Biden said Psaki “has set the standard for returning decency, respect and decorum to the White House briefing room.”
“I want to say thank you to Jen for raising the bar, communicating directly and truthfully to the American people, and keeping her sense of humor while doing so,” Biden said. “I thank Jen for her service to the country, and wish her the very best as she moves forward.”
Dunn is a partner at the Democratic consulting firm SKDK, and was a senior adviser on Biden’s 2020 campaign and previously chief strategist and communications director for President Barack Obama. The White House said she is returning to “assist in advancing the President’s policy and communications objectives.”
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look at me look i am special.
the country is a septic tank
AND the lefts, been pushing us further and further DOWN that sink hole.
The people running this country crawled out of the septic tank.
Because he is all about proving (though it is a lie) that he isn’t racist and is down with gays etc. The only people I know that spend so much time trying to prove to me they are not anti gay, anti race, etc. are liberals. Most people don’t care, they will react to you based on how you treat them. Kind of that simple.
Democrat President Joe Biden is all about proving that he is a leftist leader that his statements previously that he made are coming back to bite him in the azs , for instance, ” Joe Biden said once, ” If you didn’t Vote democrat, you’re not Black Enough.” and Then Joe Biden once Said, ” They’re going to put Ya. All, back in chains…” Fox News May 9 TH. 2022 said, This, ” Black Republicans, ” A OXYMORAN.” Stated as how the democrat party elite Feel about The Black Race.
Well, surprise, surprise, surprise!!
In this treasonous, corrupt, perverted, racist, puppet president Joe “B”iden Obama administration.
Negro is the chosen race, female is the chosen gender, LGBTQ is the chosen lifestyle and illegal immigrants are the chosen citizens. 🙁 🙁 🙁
What a friend we have in this treasonous, corrupt, perverted, racist, puppet president Joe “B”iden Obama administration……NOT!!!
It’s just another Oh look at me, I like the blacks, especially black women, and especially lesbians. Biden is sickening and a disgrace to America – he has made America the home of illegals, crime, blacks and protesters! He has done all in his power to bring America to its knees with his open borders, high prices, controlling us with his fake covid restrictions – It’s all in how much he can control us before we say enough and pretty soon, it will be too late to say enough because this fool has been played out by his handlers who I think is Soros and Obama. How much longer are we going to sit back and take it? We need to stop watching him destory America and demand he stop and impeach him –
First, as Commander in Chief needs to be court-martialed for aiding and abetting our enemies, China and the Taliban. Secondly, he has failed to protect our borders from foreign invasion and has abandoned Americans stranded behind enemy lines. Aftr this, he can be impeached.
IF we had a gop with some balls, theyd have tried to do that.. BUT alas, they don’t.
AND if she’s LGBTQ, how can se BE A FEMALE!/WOMAN???
“L” in LGBTQ = lesbian
Democrat President, Joe Biden, Wants to Certify his [ BONA FIDIES, ] AS A TRULY LEFTIST President with the first to ” nominate a Black Female for the Supreme Court, ‘ He specified Only a Black Race female , would even be considered, as a nominee for the Supreme Court, by the way , then democrat President. Joe Biden, ” Picks 1St. Black Woman L.G.B..T. To Be WHITE -House PRESS SECERTARY,” according to Fox NEWS Today, May 9Th. 2022.With This Record of FIRSTS, I Believe his ” Bona-Fides are Safe, Joe Biden doesn’t have to worry about that.
You go, Uncle Joe—another first. Another worst.
So that’s how you get prime promotions. Get Covid while around Joe and he promotes you away from him all the while supporting your arse in nine ways of life that get shoved down our throats.
The Progressive Freak Show continues…. They care more about shock value than actual competence.
It’ll bite ’em in the mid terms…
Competence is a curse word, to the left.
Responding to ” Robb5986″ it’ll bite ‘ em in tne .id Term , I Certainly hope That it does!! We Have had enough Of leftist George Soros & Joe Biden. Democrats, etc.
What a surprise…. After a nation-wide search for the most qualified person for the position… Like EVERY other one of his “appointees”.
Babbling Biden, the Village Idiot, strikes again.
Based on what I’ve seen and heard from her, and of her, we have another Affirmative Action appointee.
It’s not about actual qualifications as much as how many woke boxes you can check off.
That is all they care about. DIVERSITY wickets.. Qualifications don’t matter.
Hey, leave biden alone; he picked the one with the utmost qualifications in his mind whereas the person needs these set in stone qualifications: must be black, part of lgbtq/blm, and must be a woman cause he still knows what a woman is cause jill showed him. He had asked one of his other well qualified nominees but that one did not know what a woman is.
Since when did race/color, sexual orientation, and gender become qualifications for the job?
Since Babbling Biden took office….
This treasonous, corrupt, perverted, racist, puppet president Joe “B”iden Obama administration DOES NOT obey our country’s laws or abide by our U>S> Constitution.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. Provisions of this civil rights act forbade discrimination on the basis of sex, as well as, race in hiring, promoting, and firing.
So Why is this @#$^% Biden still in office??
BECAUSE rules, don’t apply to leftists.
I am not a biologist, so what is a woman? And, what is meant by an LGBTQ person as compared to a real person person with no acronyms? Does one have more merit than the other? Will this woman have a special pronoun that the press needs to be aware of? I guess we will eventually know what if any vias will she have in her performance as press secretary.
Send in the clowns!
Responding to comments by ” Wilddog
You commrnted, ” Send In The Clowns, Don’t Worry, They’re Already here, “Don’t Worry, They’re Already Here ” For. instance, “Joe Biden.
She has such a sweet face. Now let’s see if she can handle the constant lying required for the job. She didn’t do so well in the last press conference I saw. Better wear a mask while talking, but you can’t hide those lying eyes.