Who will Trump pick as the next Press Secretary?Pat Adams

Monday was the last day at White House for Pat Adams, a deputy assistant to the president who did behind-the-scenes stuff. One example: Rubio tends to reject staff prep before public appearances, and didn’t want to waste time on it before his guest briefing May 5 while Karoline Leavitt was on maternity leave, I'm told. Adams, who managed the press team in Leavitt's absence, roped Rubio into it, and did a murder board, pounding him with predicted questions. Every question we asked Rubio that day had been on the list Adams had pulled together, one of his colleagues told me. • Adams and Leavitt met as junior staffers during Trump’s 1st term. He helped launch her run for Congress in New Hampshire’s 1st, then returned to White House. He prepared all of Leavitt’s press briefings. He picked which independent journalist would sit in the new media seat. He organized the guest briefings by cabinet members -- VP Vance, Marco Rubio, Scott Bessent, Mehmet Oz, Rubio. • Adams is married to Rachel Jag, a counselor to Attorney General Todd Blanche. • Steven Cheung took over the day-to-day management of the press team after Leavitt's exit late last month.