1. Kayleigh Michelle McEnany is an American conservative political commentator, television personality, and writer who served as the 33rd White House press secretary under Donald Trump from April 2020 to January 2021.
20 Facts About Kayleigh McEnany
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Kayleigh McEnany worked for the Trump 2020 presidential campaign as national press secretary from 2019 to 2020 and again as senior advisor from October 2020 to January 2021.
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Kayleigh Michelle McEnany was born on April 18,1988, in Tampa, Florida, and was raised in Tampa.
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Kayleigh McEnany is the daughter of commercial roofing company owner Michael and Leanne McEnany.
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Kayleigh McEnany attended the Academy of the Holy Names, a private Catholic preparatory school in Tampa.
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Kayleigh McEnany attended the University of Miami School of Law for her first year before transferring to Harvard Law School.
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Kayleigh McEnany supported Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election.
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Kayleigh McEnany praised Trump throughout the segment, saying she had brought the "real news" to the American people.
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Kayleigh McEnany has been closely associated with the Republican Party since she was in college.
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Kayleigh McEnany was critical of the Obama presidency, and in 2012 posted several tweets questioning Barack Obama's birthplace, echoing the "birther" conspiracy theorist movement.
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Kayleigh McEnany later apologized for the comment, acknowledging that Obama was a senator at the time although he did go golfing after the 2014 beheading of another journalist, James Foley, by ISIS in Syria.
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Amid reports on May 8,2020, that the White House was "shelving" the release of COVID-19 re-opening guidelines, Kayleigh McEnany said that the guidelines had not been approved by Robert Redfield, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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In May 2020, Kayleigh McEnany defended Trump's false accusation that Joe Scarborough had a person murdered, offering no evidence in support of the accusation.
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Kayleigh McEnany likened Trump's action to that of Winston Churchill walking the streets to survey bomb damage during World War II.
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On November 20,2020, Kayleigh McEnany falsely claimed Trump was not given an "orderly transition of power".
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Kayleigh McEnany's comment was stated while Trump himself was refusing to recognize Biden's victory as legitimate; Trump was actively delaying the start of a transfer of power to president-elect Biden for two weeks.
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On March 2,2021, Kayleigh McEnany joined Fox News as an on-air contributor.
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Kayleigh McEnany was later named co-host of Outnumbered, alongside Harris Faulkner and Emily Compagno.
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Kayleigh McEnany married Sean Gilmartin, a pitcher in Major League Baseball, in November 2017.
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On March 17,2025 Kayleigh McEnany announced on Outnumbered that she and Gilmartin were expecting their third child in June of 2025.