White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has announced that President Donald Trump’s administration will no longer respond to inquiries from reporters who declare their “preferred pronouns” in emails.
Trump’s White House will ignore all emails from reporters who include this form of leftist virtue-signaling as part of their email signatures, Leavitt stated.
In response to an inquiry from a New York Times reporter, Leavitt wrote:
“As a matter of policy, we do not respond to reporters with pronouns in their bios.”
Leavitt is not the only Trump administration official to adopt this stance, however.
Katie Miller, a senior adviser for Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has also issued a similar statement.
According to a New York Times report, Miller issued a similar statement to Leavitt.
“As a matter of policy, I don’t respond to people who use pronouns in their signatures as it shows they ignore scientific realities and therefore ignore facts,” Miller said via email.
“This applies to all reporters who have pronouns in their signature,” Miller added in another message.
Leavitt also doubled down on the policy when The NYT requested a comment, saying via email:
“Any reporter who chooses to put their preferred pronouns in their bio