White House speaker Karoline Leavitt has been described as going "full cult" by a political commentator for scrambling to defend Susie Wiles' bombshell interview.
Greg Sargent of The New Republic suggested Leavitt was in full damage control mode when speaking to the press about Wiles' Vanity Fair feature. The interview had Wiles, Donald Trump's Chief of Staff, call JD Vance a conspiracy theorist and Elon Musk a ketamine user among other comments on administration figures.
Sargent believes the "full cult" mode from Leavitt is a sign Trump is "in a fury" inside the White House. Leavitt would call Trump the "greatest president in our nation's history" in a statement to the press.
She said, "I would just echo my boss, Susie Wiles, who is the best chief of staff in our nation’s history, working for the greatest president in our nation’s history. And that this was unfortunately another attempt at fake news by a reporter who was acting disingenuously and really did take the chief’s words out of context."
"But I think most importantly, the bias of omission was ever present throughout this story. The reporter omitted all of the positive things that Susie and our team said about the president in the inner workings of the White House. And as Susie said today, it’s deeply unfortunate that happened, but it won’t distract us from making America great again."
He said, "First, note how she went full cult: 'Susie Wiles is the greatest chief of staff ever. Trump is the greatest president in U.S. history.'
"Have you noticed that whenever the news gets really bad, Leavitt and other propagandists always go out of their way to go full North Korea with Trump? And we know why, right? Because he is in a fury inside the White House."
"Never mind what he said to the New York Post or whatever. He’s raging at them for letting this happen. He’s throwing things against the wall. And the only way they think they might be able to soothe him is to call him the greatest president in U.S. history on Fox, right?"
Sargeant's guest, Asawin Suebsaeng, said Trump's Washington D.C. was more like Pyongyang in North Korea than anywhere else with the Republican Party fawning over the president.
Suebsaeng said, "Whatever these things happen, there is … and look, it can sometimes feel like it’s getting old that we constantly reference Pyongyang. But given how garrulously cultish the entirety of the Republican Party elite is right now, and how they treat the so-called God Emperor Donald Trump, it is really hard to get around the idea that when you visit official Washington nowadays, you are not in Donald Trump’s Pyongyang."
