The internet erupted Tuesday after White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt snapped at CBS correspondent Nancy Cordes and insisted President Donald Trump wasn't "making anything up" when it came to the ongoing war with Iran.
Cordes had asked Leavitt to clarify Trump's decision to launch military strikes with Israel on Iran.
"There are no U.S. leaders or Israeli leaders who are making those same claims. So is he making this up to justify his decision to go to war?" Cordes said.
Leavitt wasn't happy with the reporter's question.
"The president is not making anything up," Leavitt fired back. "Iran wanted to attack the U.S., and the president was not going to allow that to happen, and everyone in this room should be grateful for it."
Social media users responded to Leavitt's claims.
"Leavitt keeps lying, and the media keeps letting her," technologist and geographer Linda Stevens wrote on X.
"There was no threat. It was all in Trump delusional mind," nurse Ellen Hanley wrote on X.
"That’s all the president does is make crap up," retired educator Ben Adler wrote on X.
"Imagine if Jen Psaki had said nonsense like this on behalf of Biden or Robert Gibbs had said this on behalf of Obama? Insane the kinda crap they get away with saying to the media. He had a 'feeling' about launching an unprovoked and illegal war of aggression," Mehdi Hasan, editor-in-chief and CEO of Zeteo, wrote on X.
"Trump is bombing Iran based on his feelings," PatriotTakes, an X account that self-describes as dedicated to researching and exposing right-wing extremism and other threats to democracy, wrote on the platform.
"HAHAHAHAHA Every time he speaks he lies!!" Vince Wilson, liberal political commentator, wrote on X.
Leavitt: "The president is not making anything up, Nancy" pic.twitter.com/9mXQmQ2l2u
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