White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Thursday that her predecessor, Karine Jean-Pierre, struggled in the role because she did not have an open relationship with former President Joe Biden.

Leavitt spoke in an interview with Turning Point USA CEO Erika Kirk, saying President Donald Trump’s “authentic” approach removes the need for political spin.

“I saw my predecessor in this role have a bit of a hard time,” Leavitt said, referring to Jean-Pierre. “I think it’s because she wasn’t able to communicate with her boss in a very open and transparent way.”

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In contrast, Leavitt described Trump as “honest” and open about his views with staff and the public.

“He just lays it on the table. There’s no guessing, there’s no questioning, there’s no spin, it’s just, it is what it is with him,” Leavitt said.

Jean-Pierre served as press secretary for nearly three years under Biden. She was frequently criticized by Republican lawmakers for relying heavily on notes and struggling to discuss the president’s positions beyond prepared remarks.

She also frequently defended Biden’s mental acuity from the podium, although later reports would suggest that even the president’s allies had reservations about his ability to do the job.

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Leavitt said Trump’s openness about his views makes her job easier. However, he has also faced criticism for his unfiltered social media posts.

“We never know what you’re [going to] get when you walk into the White House these days. Every day is an adventure,” Leavitt said.

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Since leaving the White House, Jean-Pierre has registered as an Independent and written about that decision in her new memoir. In a podcast interview promoting her book, she defended Biden’s communication style.

“The president spoke to the American people a couple times a week. He traveled and did domestic travel and talked directly to the American people,”Jean-Pierre said on “The Bulwark” podcast last October.

“We are talking about a time politically that is incredibly partisan. It is hard to break through any messaging, and it was an incumbency as well,” she added.

Jean-Pierre has also pushed back on claims about Biden’s age, telling “CBS Mornings” she saw someone who was “always engaged. I saw someone who understood policy, pushed us on the policy, and also understood history.”

Fox News Digital reached out to Jean-Pierre for comment.

A great-grandmother, age 95, is still breaking swimming world records — and the pictures alone demonstrate her remarkably fit physique and health routine. 

Jane Asher recently achieved five age group world records, adding to her already 100-strong collection.

The swimming legend from Merton Park, South London, also has a British Empire Medal for her dedication to the sport. She’s in the International Swimming Hall of Fame as well, as news agency SWNS reported.

Looking back on her long career, which includes 26 gold medals, Asher said she credits her love of the water for her good health and long-lasting happiness.

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“It does keep you healthy,” she said. “I have taught people who just had surgery — and their doctors were amazed by how much they improved because of the swimming.”

Asher said she wants to “show people what a lot of fun you can have if you like competing and how good you feel when you work hard at something.”

She acknowledged that “quite a lot” of young people nowadays “have put on weight. Swimming doesn’t help you to lose weight, but it finds the muscles. … It opened a whole new world for me. It made me happy and healthy.”

Born in Zambia, in southern Africa, Asher spent most of her childhood in Johannesburg, she said, where her English mother taught her to swim. Her interest in swimming only grew at boarding school, where she was allowed to use the pool on her own in the mornings, mostly doing the backstroke.

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Today, Asher is a grandmother of 11 and a great-grandmother of six — and wherever she’s lived throughout her life, she’s always joined local swim teams, per the SWNS report.

Once she even joined a rowing club just to be in the water.

Asher married a vet named Robbie — and when he had an accident at work, she decided to get a job teaching swimming at the local school to help pay the family bills.

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She said her mother “was taught to swim in the sea in Cornwall and was addicted to water. We spent all of our free time just jumping in and out of the water. I took to it quite quickly.”

In Asher’s very first swim race, “a girl said that I kicked like hell. It was because my mother was watching. Now every time I have a backstroke race, I think, ‘Mom is up there watching.’”

After transitioning to teaching adults how to swim, Asher started entering swimming competitions when she was 50 years old. She broke 100 records by age 80.

The legendary swimmer broke her first European record at a 800m race in Crystal Palace — after a wedding where she’d had a few drinks.

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To this day, she competes in several different races, but said her favorite swim race is the individual medley, which involves backstroke, breaststroke, front crawl and butterfly.

Said Asher, “When my husband died, I started filling the time, but it was hard because there is this big hole in your life. But swimming has given me such good friends, and they give back to me. All of my kids are very sporty, and I am very proud of them, and I didn’t realize that they are proud of me.”

She noted, “Without friends, life doesn’t happen. There is always somebody pushing you on. I think that is what keeps me going — [knowing that] somebody [is] waiting for me.”

In terms of her health and wellness advice for the younger generation, Asher said she’d tell folks to keep active and swim wherever they can in order to be healthy.

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“It is a really good non-contact sport,” she said. “You can’t hurt yourself. Running hurts your knees and your hips, and even tennis causes shoulder problems. … I had a good kick with very strong legs.”

She also pointed out, “It is good to have something to think about. It is a bit like meditation. That is the secret, of course. You must not stiffen up, because then you go down like a stone.”

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Asher said she has no plans to slow down.

She’s currently working toward her next competition and another potential world record in Budapest, noted the SWNS report.

Savannah Guthrie will return to “Today” on Monday after a two-month absence since her mother, Nancy, went missing on Feb. 1. 

While Nancy Guthrie has not been found, her daughter will attempt to return to work after an unprecedented ordeal that put the “Today” anchor at the center of a national news story. 

Last week, Guthrie explained why she wanted to return to NBC’s flagship morning show during an interview with colleague Hoda Kotb.

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“It’s hard to imagine doing it because it’s such a place of joy and lightness, I can’t come back and try to be something that I’m not. But I can’t not come back, because it’s my family. I think it’s part of my purpose right now. I want to smile, and when I do, it will be real. And my joy will be my protest. My joy will be my answer, and being there is joyful, and when it’s not, I’ll say so,” Guthrie said.

“I consider this my family, and when times are hard you want to be with your family,” she continued. “And so I don’t know if I can do it. I don’t know if I’ll belong anymore, but I would like to try. I would like to try.”

Guthrie said she will not “be the same,” but suggested “maybe it’s like that old poem: ‘More beautiful in the broken places.’”

Guthrie’s return is expected to draw a larger-than-usual audience, but it’s unclear how “Today” producers will navigate her comeback. She has gone from someone tasked with presenting the news to being at the center of a tragic national story within a matter of months. 

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“NBC is counting on Savannah Guthrie to deliver an overwhelming response from viewers. But it will also have to proceed carefully. After all, the return will be overwhelming for her, too,” Variety’s Brian Steinberg wrote. 

“Today” is a cash cow for NBC, racking up hundreds of millions in advertising revenue last year, and Guthrie has starred on the show as a lead anchor for nearly 14 years. Her tenure has been steady even during major bumps for the top network morning show, including the scandalous exit of Matt Lauer in 2017 and the disastrous ouster of Ann Curry in 2012.

Nancy Guthrie is believed to have been taken from her home against her will. Her son-in-law dropped her off at home around 10 p.m. the night before she went missing from the same home the “Today” co-anchor grew up in. In the early morning hours, a masked man was seen on her doorstep and appeared to be armed with a handgun.

At around 2:30 a.m., her pacemaker made its last sync with her Apple devices, indicating a potential timeframe for when she was taken out of the home. Her watch and iPhone were recovered inside. 

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A series of unverified ransom notes were sent to media outlets, including TMZ and a local Tucson station, leading many to believe the disappearance is somehow financially motivated. No suspects have been publicly identified. 

Investigators and the family have repeatedly appealed to the public for help. There is a combined reward of more than $1.2 million in connection with the case — a million of it from the Guthrie family for their mother’s recovery. The family has asked anyone with information to call 1-800-CALL-FBI.

Fox News Digital’s Michael Ruiz and Adam Sabes contributed to this report.