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Karoline Leavitt Is Already Causing Headaches For Trump We Wonder

Bonisiwe Shabane
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karoline leavitt is already causing headaches for trump we wonder

President Donald Trump hasn't had the best luck retaining White House press secretaries. In his first term, the Republican went through four different people in the role, and his second administration introduced another new face to fill it. Less than 10 days into his presidency, however, it seems the current press secretary may have already put herself on the hot seat in the wake of a major misstep. On January 29, 2025, President Trump's press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, possibly threw the administration under the bus regarding its intention to halt federal funding. Though they reversed course and took back the order, a post Leavitt shared on X, formerly Twitter, conveyed the administration still intended to proceed with it. "This is NOT a rescission of the federal funding freeze," Leavitt wrote on X.

"It is simply a rescission of the OMB memo." The post raised red flags for United States District Judge John McConnell, who believed Leavitt's post was incriminating proof Trump was trying to pull a... He promptly threatened to issue a restraining order to prevent Trump from going forward with such action. President Donald Trump's press secretary Karoline Leavitt has already had several controversial moments to her name that could jeopardize her position if they persist. In her 20s alone, she raised eyebrows for her severe campaign debt that led to major money problems and the time she was notoriously booted off CNN during a June 2024 interview for belittling... And, on January 28, 2025, she seemingly lost favor with some observers after asserting taxpayer money had been used to fund the shipment of intimate goods to Gaza during a press briefing. Though President Trump repeated these claims a day later, Leavitt's reliability was brought into question, given their outlandish nature.

"It took Trump White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt just one press conference to utterly destroy her credibility for the remainder of her tenure with the blatant falsehood about $50 million in aid going... Knowing she's the youngest to ever hold her post at 27 years old, Leavitt's missteps thus far could simply be youthful hiccups from an official eager to make a name for herself in the... However, knowing Trump's track record with his press secretaries, those wrinkles may need to be ironed out sooner rather than later if she wishes to hold onto her position. Some social media users, however, are already predicting her downfall. "Karoline Leavitt quits by April or February or is fired," another user wrote. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt is facing heat for a new claim about President Donald Trump that critics found pretty easy to disprove.

“President Trump is the most transparent and accessible President in American history!” she wrote on X as Trump called reporters into the Oval Office on Monday, where he signed executive orders targeting flag burning... Trump was “accessible” in that he spoke at length and made some wild and bizarre claims and misspeaks. Related: JD Vance’s Old Epstein Tweets Are Coming Back To Haunt Him In A Big Way But critics had a harder time with the word “transparent” to describe Trump. Karoline Leavitt thinks Democrats are just jealous that Donald Trump is building a swanky $250 million ballroom at the White House. The White House press secretary says that’s the only way to explain the “fake outrage” after part of the White House’s iconic East Wing was demolished to make way for the 90,000-square-foot structure.

The Trump administration has received widespread backlash for starting work on the event space that will eventually dwarf the White House itself. “It’s not his house. It’s your house. And he’s destroying it,” former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton posted on X. But Trump officials have attempted to convince the public that it’s what presidents, administrations, and White House staff have longed for, for 150 years. “Are the Democrats jealous that Trump is building this big beautiful ballroom?” Fox News host Jesse Watters asked Leavitt on Tuesday.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt speaks with reporters at the White House, Thursday, Oct. 2, in Washington. Evan Vucci/AP hide caption With the federal government in the third day of a shutdown, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt says the Trump administration has no choice but to look at where it can make cuts to... Most of the federal government shut down Wednesday after the Senate failed to pass a short-term spending agreement. While Republicans control the Senate, they do need some Democratic support to get the 60 votes needed to approve the funding.

But Democratic leadership wants any agreement to include an extension of Affordable Care Act subsidies that millions rely on and to undo cuts made to health spending by President Trump's signature One Big Beautiful... Republicans say they want to negotiate the subsidies after reaching an agreement to fund the government. The White House has proposed layoffs to the federal workforce in response to a prolonged shutdown, which has drawn a lawsuit from various unions representing federal workers. Typically in a temporary funding lapse like this, a broad swath of workers is furloughed, but not permanently fired. In an interview with Morning Edition, Leavitt said President Trump is meeting with the Office of Management and Budget to look at "where can we cut back to save money in a responsible way... White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt tried Monday to blame Democrats for President Donald Trump’s unprecedented decision to fire federal workers during the government shutdown.

During a press briefing, Leavitt was asked about Trump’s Sunday comments blaming Democrats for the sweeping layoffs he’s threatened as a result of the government shutdown. “The president said yesterday that Democrats will be to blame if federal workers lose their jobs. Historically, though, in past shutdowns workers have been furloughed, but they have not been laid off en masse,” said CNN’s Kaitlan Collins. “So, wouldn’t that be the president’s call to lay people off?” “As I’ve said repeatedly, Kaitlan, this conversation about layoffs would not be happening right now if the Democrats did not vote to shut the government down,” Leavitt said. But no one is forcing Trump to lay off workers: he’s using them as leverage to bring the Democrats to kneel.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has already shown there’s just about nothing she won’t say in service of her boss. Everybody understands spin, but her latest pronouncement made social media take note of what appears to be Leavitt’s total lack of self-awareness. Addressing the fatal shooting of two Israeli Embassy workers Wednesday in Washington, D.C., Leavitt proclaimed, “hatred has no place in the United States of America under President Donald Trump.” Apparently, she doesn’t follow the president on Truth Social, where, just this week, he’s hated on entertainers Bruce Springsteen, Oprah Winfrey, Beyonce and Bono. Leavitt: Hatred has no place in the United States of America under President Donald Trump pic.twitter.com/NURTgNV2wc As one X follower replied to Leavitt, “Are MAGA and Trump aware of that?”

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