The White House teleprompter operator, who earned over $100,000 betting on Donald Trump’s speeches, has been fired from the administration. This was stated by spokesperson Karoline Leavitti in a press briefing.
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Gabriel Perez, technical assistant to the president who has managed Trump’s teleprompter since 2016, earned tens of thousands of dollars betting on the State of the Union speech last February and on more than a dozen other speeches by the tycoon through the betting platform Kalshi.
According to ABC, it was the platform itself that reported the suspicious activity to its regulatory authority, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. “The White House adopts strict ethical guidelines that we expect to be followed by all staff and officials,” Leavitt emphasized.
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Among the speeches of Trump used by Perez over three months were the prime-time December speech, the one given in January 2026 at the World Economic Forum in Davos (Switzerland), and the March speech during a Medal of Honor ceremony.
In a comment to CNBC, Robert DeNault, head of compliance at Kalshi, explained that “our surveillance team promptly reported and sent these trades to the [Commodity Futures Trading Commission]. We have assisted regulators on this matter and provided the evidence we collected, as we do with any report.”
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