"They famously do not like the media there, to put it lightly, and I asked a shouted question to President Trump, who had seen me when the U.S. press came in. He didn't answer, which is how it works you shout questions, they either answer or they don't, it's their prerogative and then the world leaders left the room."
"The Saudi Royal Guard kind of freaked out because I had dared to ask a question and they're not used to that there because they don't have a free press, and so they came up and they said, Okay, well you can't come into the next event, which was like two minutes later, and I was like, That's not how this works, I belong to the U.S. press, and they were like, Well, you're not coming in."
"And I could see them like whispering and pointing about me and some of the younger White House staff that are with the press weren't really sure what to do and they went to Karoline, and to her credit she said, No, Kaitlan's coming in with the rest of the U.S. press, and we went in, and so it didn't become this big issue."
During a presidential foreign trip to Saudi Arabia, a U.S. journalist shouted a question to President Trump and received no answer. After the world leaders left the room, the Saudi Royal Guard attempted to bar the journalist from a subsequent event, citing local restrictions on the press. Some younger White House staff hesitated on how to respond. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt intervened and insisted the journalist be allowed to enter with the U.S. press, preventing the incident from escalating. The same journalist had recently criticized Leavitt for complaining about coverage of Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick's 2012 lunch with Jeffrey Epstein.
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