OAN Staff James Meyers
12:56 PM – Wednesday, April 9, 2025
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced that it is Trump administration policy for officials not respond to any reporters who have pronouns in their email.
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According to the New York Times, Trump administration officials have repeatedly ignored their reporters’ requests for comment because they have pronouns in their email signatures. Along with Leavitt, Katie Miller, a senior adviser at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), declined to answer another NYT reporter’s email after they reportedly included their pronouns in their signature.
New York Times reporter Michael Grynbaum said the press office has rejected emails on “three recent occasions” from reporters who display gender-identifying pronouns, and cited quotes to the press secretary.
“As a matter of policy, we do not respond to reporters with pronouns in their bios,” Leavitt told a New York Times reporter with pronouns in their signature, who had inquired about a climate research observatory.
Grynbaum also reached out to Leavitt for comment, asking whether this type of response was a press office policy in place.
“Any reporter who chooses to put their preferred pronouns in their bio clearly does not care about biological reality or truth and therefore cannot be trusted to write an honest story,” Leavitt said in a separate comment to NYT after telling a reporter that they “do not respond” to inquiries with pronouns in the signature “as a matter of policy.”
Grynbaum received a comment from White House communications director Steven Cheung on the topic as well. Cheung stated, “If The New York Times spent the same amount of time actually reporting the truth as they do being obsessed with pronouns, maybe they would be a half-decent publication.”
Additionally, the reporter said that journalists from other outlets have received similar responses if they have their pronouns displayed. He also cited that Crooked Media reporter Matt Berg ran an “experiment,” putting pronouns in his email signature just to see if the White House would comment on them and deny his question.
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