Karoline Leavitt Exit And Shawn Farash’s One-Day Press Secretary Pitch

Shawn Farash fills in for Dawn Stensland and Greg Stocker, giving Nick Kayal a full morning to test Shawn’s bid to serve as White House press secretary for one day. Karoline Leavitt’s exit sets up a long Trump-impression press briefing that turns the Air Force One decoy story into a Mission Impossible gag and introduces “Donna J. Trump,” a fictional WNBA star with presidential ambitions. We shift into local and national news with a Pennsylvania survey showing growing resistance to data centers, then compare concerns about water use, noise and power costs with what Shawn hears in Tennessee. Montgomery County’s social media litigation opens a larger argument about children, addictive phone use and parental limits, while Del Oro softball players provide a real-world example of a month without smartphones. Phil Almquist brings the sports desk as the Phillies fall 7-1 to St. Louis, the Field of Dreams matchup approaches and the Lakers’ $12.5 billion sale gets our attention. The hour’s major political discussion is “Woke 2,” built around David Crowley’s Wisconsin primary upset over Francesca Hong. We argue about the DSA wing, Abdul El-Sayed, polling, prediction markets and why voters still have to show up when the odds look ugly. Shawn then shares details of his new weekday show, we react to Hassan Piker’s Black-voter rant, and we close the hour by testing socialist rhetoric against wealthy supporters, the New York luxury-home tax fight and Michigan’s coming statewide test.