Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg’s longtime spokesperson who didn’t shy away from butting heads with reporters is leaving Metro Hall.

Kevin Trager, the son of a prominent local banker and a former reporter himself, is now the campaign manager for Greenberg’s 2026 reelection bid, according to Matt Mudd, Greenberg’s new spokesperson.

Mudd said Trager “was given a new role.”

Trager worked on Greenberg’s winning campaign for mayor in the 2022 election cycle and assumed the role as press secretary shortly after. He was quick to call up a reporter and push back against coverage he didn’t see as fair and he was known to lambast local journalists if he didn’t like their tactics.

Last month, he shouted at an LPM intern on the phone after the intern approached Greenberg at a public event to ask

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