Leavitt also appeared in a clip on the White House account. The account racked up more than 140,000 followers by Wednesday morning, still catching up to Trump’s more than 10 million Truth Social followers and more than 108 million followers on his less frequently used X account.

Less than 24 hours after the White House launched a TikTok page, its videos have been inundated with comments about the Jeffrey Epstein scandal. The new account, which uses the handle @whitehouse and has posted seven videos since launching on Tuesday night,

Since US president Donald Trump was inaugurated in January, he's set about making plenty of changes in the White House.

Since taking office in January, Donald Trump’s administration has ushered in a change of tone in government that is in stark contrast to the previous one. Where typically people expect the government of one of the world’s most powerful countries to be serious and level-headed,