All posts tagged "Karoline Leavitt"

President Donald Trump's freshly fired press secretary isn't letting a public dressing-down from her old boss shake her devotion to him.

Katie Zacharia remains "ruthlessly loyal" to the president even after he told a rally crowd she "freaked out" on the job, the Daily Mail reported Saturday. Zacharia signaled her agreement on X, sharing the Mail's story with a one-word endorsement. "Facts," she wrote.

Trump revisited her brief tenure at a Florida rally Friday, calling her a "poor young woman" and a "perfect, beautiful woman" who panicked when reporters started yelling at her in the briefing room....

A Hollywood publication delivered a scathing verdict on late-night host Bill Maher's latest sit-down with a former Trump White House insider.

Variety's chief correspondent Marlow Stern tore into the HBO host's "Real Time" interview with Karoline Leavitt, Trump's former White House press secretary, accusing Maher of delivering a "litany of compliments" about the president while barely challenging his guest.

Stern didn't treat the booking as a one-off. He framed it as the latest sign of Maher's warming relationship with Trumpworld, pointing to the comedian's recent four-hour dinner at the White House alongside Kid Rock and Stephen A. Smith. Trump later suggested to reporters that Maher's on-air criticism is mostly for show....

Former White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt described President Donald Trump telling British Prime Minister Keir Starmer over a private lunch that his policies were "extremely stupid." One pro-Trump TV host says she should have kept that to herself.

Leavitt told the story on "Hang Out with Sean Hannity." Hannity had asked how "brutally honest" Trump is with world leaders.

"With Starmer, I remember we sat down for lunch," Leavitt said. She said she couldn't remember whether it was Windsor Castle or "the place where Keir Starmer lives," and noted that the trip was "a year ago today," because the memory had come up on her phone....

The race to replace Karoline Leavitt has morphed into a knife fight, with Trump-world sources trashing the contenders and a one-time frontrunner sunk by his own words, the Daily Mail reported Friday.

CNN commentator Scott Jennings had the job if he wanted it, sources told the outlet, after dining with chief of staff Susie Wiles. But White House staff surfaced what he wrote on the day of the Capitol riot in 2021, when Jennings said Trump had caused the insurrection with lies about the election being rigged. Disgraced former Rep. Matt Gaetz amplified it, posting that Jennings for press secretary was a bad idea.

And Trump insiders noticed....

A White House staffer who has been with President Donald Trump since the first administration left his job, adding to a growing exodus.

CBS News White House reporter Jennifer Jacobs posted on X on Tuesday that White House deputy assistant to the president and press adviser Pat Adams departed on Monday.

Politico described Adams as the "former right hand" for Karoline Leavitt, who left her job as White House press secretary last month....

Veteran Democratic political strategist Julie Roginsky tore into ABC's "The View" and its decision to invite former White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.

In a Saturday Substack article, Roginsky discussed how "The View" announced that Karoline Leavitt had been invited to join the show as a guest for its new season this fall. Most of Roginsky's ire was directed at the show's network, ABC, which also runs "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" and is owned by Disney.

"Has ABC completely lost its mind?" Roginsky wrote. "This booking is a disgrace and ABC should cancel it before it beclowns itself any further."...