White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt is being ridiculed over a flub in her Wednesday question time.
When asked when Americans can expect grocery prices to come back down, Leavitt struggled to answer. Instead, she referred to the "grocery pump," an apparent mix of "gas pump" and "grocery store."
Within just 15 minutes of her flub, someone had created an account on Blue Sky for the "Grocery Pump." According to its biography, it's concerned eggs are reaching $500 a gallon.
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"But 'on day one...'!! Trump told us 'I won on groceries. Very simple word, groceries...We're going to bring those prices way down.' I want my prices at the 'grocery pump' to go down NOW! I can't afford the eggs I need to put into my tank,'" cracked former Republican Party chair Michael Steele on X.
"We are still being given that Trump has 'concepts of a plan' while he is IN office! There is no plan. He will continue to blame Biden on inflation for the next 4 years," wrote Chamber of Progress director of economic analysis Tahra Jiraiya.
"White House Barbie will have a complete meltdown one day, mark my word. The constant lying and avoiding direct answers cannot hold up under scrutiny. She is in over her head," said Tom Haudricourt, a former reporter for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
"The grocery pump? Okay that’s a new one. Tell me you’ve never been inside a grocery store without telling me," quipped a junior project manager at NBC News.
The last time Leavitt spoke on the issue, she blamed the mass killing of chickens by Joe Biden's administration for high egg prices.
Leavitt was also accused of misleading the press when she implied that Elon Musk's coders aren't writing government code.
Fox correspondent Peter Doocy asked whether the Musk team has "read-only access" to the government systems. Leavitt said "yes."
Doocy then asked, "So they are not allowed to write new code?"
Leavitt answered, "no."
It prompted questions from those online who doubted what she said. One called it a "hard-boiled lie."
Former Buzzfeed tech reporter Max Wolf said, "I suspect 'not allowed to write new code' is leaving relevant wiggle room."
