Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt Briefs Members of the Media, July 17, 2025

July 17, 2025 · The White House · 0:43:02

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What happened

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt briefed members of the media on July 17, 2025, carried on the White House channel. She opened with scheduling: the President would travel to Scotland July 25–29, visiting Turnberry and Aberdeen and meeting Prime Minister Starmer again “to refine the great trade deal that was brokered between the United States and the United Kingdom,” and the President and First Lady would make an official state visit to the United Kingdom September 17–19 — “a truly unprecedented second state visit for President Trump,” hosted by the King at Windsor Castle, as she announced it.

On the economy, Leavitt said “Joe Biden’s inflation crisis has been defeated,” citing producer prices flat in June and core inflation that “has tracked at just 2.1 percent overall” since the President took office and had come in at or below expectations every month, as she stated the figures. In questions on the Epstein files, she said the President “directed the Department of Justice and the Attorney General to do an exhaustive review” of the files and defended the review’s memo: “they concluded what they found in that memo, which they drafted and they released.”

Why it matters

This briefing is the White House’s own announcement record for the two United Kingdom trips that structured the late-July and September foreign schedule — both paged in this chronicle from the visits themselves — and its mid-summer inflation case stated by the Press Secretary on the record.

Scoreboard watch

This briefing is a scoreboard reference point: the Press Secretary’s July 17, 2025 inflation figures (core inflation tracking at 2.1 percent since January, as she stated them), to be checked against the published BLS series.

Sources: The White House, “Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt Briefs Members of the Media, July 17, 2025” (official upload, embedded above). All figures and characterizations as stated by the Press Secretary.