Age, Biography, and Wiki
- Birth Date: April 18, 1988
- Age (as of 2025): 37 years old
- Biography: Kayleigh McEnany began her career in politics with internships for influential Republican leaders, including President George W. Bush. She rose to prominence as a political commentator and author, eventually becoming the White House Press Secretary under President Donald Trump. Her Wikipedia page provides a detailed account of her career and personal life: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kayleigh_McEnany.
| Occupation | Republicans |
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| Date of Birth | 18 April 1988 |
| Age | 37 Years |
| Birth Place | Tampa, Florida, U.S. |
| Horoscope | Aries |
| Country | U.S |
Height, Weight & Measurements
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Dating & Relationship Status
- Marital Status: Married
- Spouse: Sean Gilmartin
- Wedding Date: November 18, 2017
On October 5, 2020, McEnany tested positive for COVID-19. Even though she had interacted with individuals who had been diagnosed with coronavirus days prior, McEnany on several occasions spoke with the press while not wearing a mask before she ultimately tested positive for the coronavirus. Among McEnany's staff members to also test positive for COVID-19 was Chad Gilmartin, the cousin of McEnany's husband.
While ballots were still being counted on election day, McEnany made an early false declaration of victory for Trump. After Joe Biden won the election and Trump refused to concede, McEnany spread false claims of fraud in the 2020 election. On November 20, 2020, McEnany falsely claimed Trump was not given an "orderly transition of power". Previously in 2016, within two days of Trump's victory, his opponent Hillary Clinton conceded to Trump, while then-President Barack Obama had recognized Trump as president-elect and hosted him at the White House. Trump himself thanked Obama and his wife Michelle "for their gracious aid throughout this transition". Trump fired the leader of his transition team (Chris Christie), threw out months of transition planning, and rejected help from the Obama administration. McEnany's comment was stated while Trump himself was refusing to recognize Biden's victory as legitimate; Trump was also actively delaying the start of a transfer of power to president-elect Biden for two weeks.
McEnany married Sean Gilmartin, a pitcher in Major League Baseball, in November 2017. Due to a BRCA mutation that put her at high risk of developing breast cancer, McEnany underwent a preventive double mastectomy in 2018. In June 2022, she announced that she and her husband were expecting their second child. In December 2022, the couple welcomed a baby boy.
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Net Worth and Salary
- Net Worth (2025): Approximately $1 million
- Annual Salary (2025): Around $183,000 from her role at Fox News
- Income Sources: Her wealth primarily comes from her work in media and politics, including a past salary of $167,962 from Donald J. Trump For President Inc. and $21,394 from the Republican National Committee. She also earns from book royalties.
Career, Business, and Investments
- Career: McEnany's career spans politics and media. She started with internships for prominent Republicans, transitioned to media appearances, and became a White House Press Secretary. She is currently a host at Fox News.
- Business and Investments: While specific business investments are not detailed, her career in media and politics contributes significantly to her income. She has also published books, adding to her earnings.
McEnany began her media career as a producer for Huckabee on Fox News. She later worked as a commentator on CNN. Following the Trump administration, she became an on-air contributor for Fox News and serves as a co-host of Outnumbered. She is also a primary guest host for The Ingraham Angle, Jesse Watters Primetime, Hannity, The Five, and Fox & Friends.
She is the daughter of commercial roofing company owner Michael and Leanne McEnany. She also has a younger sister, Ryann McEnany. McEnany attended the Academy of the Holy Names, a private Catholic preparatory school in Tampa. After graduating, she majored in international politics at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service in Washington, D.C., and she studied abroad at St Edmund Hall, Oxford. While at Oxford, she was taught politics by future British Labour politician Nick Thomas-Symonds. After graduating from Georgetown in 2010, McEnany spent three years as a producer on the Mike Huckabee Show.
While in law school, McEnany appeared on CNN as a paid commentator. She supported Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election. In early 2015, before becoming a Trump supporter, McEnany was highly critical of him, declaring on CNN and Fox Business that "Donald Trump has shown himself to be a showman" and it was "unfortunate" and "inauthentic" to call him a Republican. McEnany called his comments about Mexican immigrants "racist". According to Michael Marcantonio, a fellow summer associate at a law firm, she began supporting Trump after accepting Marcantonio's advice, which he gave to her over cocktails. In an interview with the New York Times, Marcantonio recalled telling McEnany, "Donald Trump is going to be your nominee," and that if "a smart, young, blond Harvard graduate" wanted "to get on television and have a career as a political pundit, you would be wise to be an early backer."
Former employer Mike Huckabee has called her a "meticulous researcher" and "extraordinarily prepared." Her rapid occupational success was noted by Van Jones, who worked with her at CNN: "I'm not trying to defend the messaging, but what I hope people can acknowledge is there's very few people in either party who can accomplish what Kayleigh has accomplished in such a short time... People keep taking her lightly, and they keep regretting it."
Following the 2021 storming of the United States Capitol, Randall Lane, writing for Forbes, warned corporations against hiring McEnany or other people "who lied for Trump", stating that "Forbes will assume that everything your company or firm talks about is a lie. We're going to scrutinize, double-check, investigate with the same skepticism we'd approach a Trump tweet. Want to ensure the world's biggest business media brand approaches you as a potential funnel of disinformation? Then hire away."
Social Network
- Instagram Followers (2025): Over 2.3 million followers.
- Her social media presence helps her maintain a strong public profile.
On August 5, 2017, McEnany left her position at CNN. The following day, she hosted a 90-second webcast, Real News Update on Trump's personal Facebook page. She praised Trump throughout the segment, saying she had brought the "real news" to the American people.
In 2017, she said it was hypocritical to accuse President Trump of spending time playing golf when Obama had done the same thing after the 2002 beheading of Daniel Pearl. McEnany later apologized for the comment, acknowledging that Obama was a senator at the time although he did go golfing after the 2014 beheading of another journalist, James Foley, by ISIS in Syria. Obama, who was vacationing on Martha's Vineyard at the time, admitted that he should have "anticipated the optics" of golfing immediately after making a press statement on Foley's death.
In August 2019, after The Washington Post reported that Trump had made 16,241 false or misleading statements in his first three years in office, McEnany told CNN's Chris Cuomo: "I don't believe the president has lied."
In the weeks before her appointment as White House press secretary, McEnany praised Trump's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, saying, "This president will always put America first, he will always protect American citizens. We will not see diseases like the coronavirus come here, we will not see terrorism, and isn't that refreshing when contrasting it with the awful presidency of Barack Obama?" The disease had been present in the United States for at least a month prior to McEnany's claim that the virus would not "come here"; in December 2020 Politico named McEnany's prediction one of "the most audacious, confident and spectacularly incorrect prognostications about the year". In March 2020, McEnany said Democrats were trying "to politicize" the coronavirus and that Democrats were almost "rooting for this outcome."
On September 9, 2020, news agencies released the audio recordings of interviews with Trump that former Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward had conducted in February and March 2020 for his book Rage, in which Trump acknowledged to Woodward that he was intentionally downplaying the severity of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, which CNN had obtained ahead of the book's September 15, 2020 release. In the wake of this development, McEnany falsely asserted, "The president never downplayed the virus." In fact, Trump repeatedly and publicly downplayed the risk of the virus and the severity of the pandemic, and in a recorded March 19, 2020 interview with Woodward said, "I wanted to always play it down. I still like playing it down, because I don't want to create a panic." In response to McEnany's comment, Washington Post media critic Erik Wemple wrote that she had sacrificed her credibility; while Joe Lockhart, who served as White House Press Secretary during the Clinton administration, wrote her answers confirmed her as a "state propagandist".
Education
- Harvard Law School: She graduated from Harvard Law School with a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree.
- Georgetown University: She also attended Georgetown University for her Bachelor's degree in International Politics.
Kayleigh McEnany's career and financial success are marked by her influential roles in both politics and media, contributing to her status as a prominent conservative commentator in the United States.
McEnany attended the University of Miami School of Law for her first (1L) year before transferring to Harvard Law School. At the Miami School of Law, McEnany received the Bruce J. Winick Award for Excellence, a scholarship awarded to students in the top 1% of their class. She graduated from Harvard in 2016.
As a college student, McEnany interned for several politicians, including Tom Gallagher, Adam Putnam and George W. Bush, and later worked in the White House Office of Communications, where she wrote media briefings.
McEnany has been closely associated with the Republican Party since she was in college. She was critical of the Obama presidency, and in 2012 posted several tweets questioning Barack Obama's birthplace, echoing the "birther" conspiracy theorist movement. In 2012, McEnany tweeted about Obama's half-brother Malik Obama, who lives in Kenya: "How I Met Your Brother – Never mind, forgot he's still in that hut in Kenya".
