Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt Briefs Members of the Media, Apr. 15, 2025

April 15, 2025 · The White House · 0:32:06

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What happened

Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt briefed the media on Apr. 15, 2025, carried on the White House channel, saying she had come directly from the Oval Office with updates from the President. She opened with Holy Week: the White House Faith Office’s week-long celebration ahead of Easter Sunday, the President’s Holy Week proclamation and video message, a pre-Easter dinner the following night, a staff Easter worship service on Thursday, and the Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn the following Monday.

On the economy, Leavitt said President Trump is turning America into a manufacturing superpower again, pointing to what she called the monumental announcement by NVIDIA the day before: for the first time ever, the chip-making giant will produce AI supercomputers in the United States, as she presented it.

Leavitt also addressed the Rachel Morin case: a Maryland jury had found Victor Martinez-Hernandez guilty of murdering Rachel Morin, whose body was found in a tunnel drain, and she said the Morin family finally had its verdict - the case the White House returned to at the next day’s briefing with Morin’s mother as guest.

Why it matters

The briefing stitches together three of the administration’s April 2025 storylines in one sitting - the Faith Office’s first Holy Week, the NVIDIA supercomputer announcement the administration credited to its trade policy, and the Morin verdict at the center of its border-enforcement argument - and it sets up the Apr. 16 briefing where Patty Morin appeared in person.

Scoreboard watch

Scoreboard watch: the NVIDIA U.S. supercomputer-production announcement as presented by the Press Secretary (credited by the administration to its trade policy) - flagged for the scoreboard editors; the entry itself remains review-gated.

Sources: The White House, “Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt Briefs Members of the Media, Apr. 15, 2025” (YouTube, Apr. 15, 2025) - official description and broadcast transcript as aired.