# Karoline Leavitt (and her successors) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [May 9, 2025, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/karoline-leavitt-and-her-successors/1018138 "2025-05-09T06:40:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2025, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/karoline-leavitt-and-her-successors/1018138/41 "2025-05-10T15:38:54Z")
I think intellect is less of a requirement now than it used to be. Previously it would be necessary to keep all he lies consistent or risk having the contradictory statements pointed out exposing the lie. These days the country can be divided into those who already know every thing she says is a lie, and those who will believe everything she says even if it contradicts what was said 10 seconds ago. ---
**Author:** ![Kropotkin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kropotkin/32/18045_2.png) [@Kropotkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kropotkin)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2025, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/karoline-leavitt-and-her-successors/1018138/42 "2025-05-10T22:29:01Z")
Agreed. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2025, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/karoline-leavitt-and-her-successors/1018138/43 "2025-05-11T03:25:22Z")
> [@kambuckta](#): > > Seriously Dope, there are times when words are just words, and not meant to imply anything more than what appears on the screen. > > And I stand by my use of strumpet, and I shall wait patiently for some actual responses to my OP. Pfffft. I took it in the spirit with which it was meant. Especially funny in my head, where I hear it in your Aussie accent. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2025, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/karoline-leavitt-and-her-successors/1018138/44 "2025-05-11T07:05:01Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](#): > > > [@kambuckta](#): > > > > Seriously Dope, there are times when words are just words, and not meant to imply anything more than what appears on the screen. > > > > And I stand by my use of strumpet, and I shall wait patiently for some actual responses to my OP. > > …Especially funny in my head, where I hear it in your Aussie accent. Funnily enough, I don’t have a fair-dinkum Strine Aussie accent. More often than not I’m mistaken for a Brit, even here. I blame my grandmother who insisted on British English being spoken in the home. Along with table-manners, and fucking spelling. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2025, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/karoline-leavitt-and-her-successors/1018138/45 "2025-05-11T07:12:01Z")
> [@kambuckta](#): > > I blame my grandmother who insisted on British English being spoken in the home. Along with table-manners, and fucking spelling. And your sense of humour ⬅ (note the correct spelling) is kinda British, too, in the Monty-Python-esque sense. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2025, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/karoline-leavitt-and-her-successors/1018138/46 "2025-05-11T17:00:52Z")
“President Trump promised to wreck the economy, and make the US detested around the world beginning on day one. Promises made, promises kept!” ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2025, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/karoline-leavitt-and-her-successors/1018138/47 "2025-08-29T21:05:26Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](#): > > Pfffft. I took it in the spirit with which it was meant. Especially funny in my head, where I hear it in your Aussie accent. I agree, 100%. :Phuuullllease… She’s clearly a young white woman that Donnie hired. So she has some qualifications. We know what kind of people work for him. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2026, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/karoline-leavitt-and-her-successors/1018138/48 "2026-01-27T06:34:58Z")
We haven’t discussed Karolyin" L. lately. I have Fox “news” on at the moment, checking out their spin on today’s developments. She was singing the praises of fathead Tom Homan, and reminded us that he was once awarded a medal by Barack _Hussein_ Obama. I’m not sure why, but that ignorant phrase coming out of her slapable puss really set me off. She’s always been insufferable, but she’s really gone full Stepford. ---
**Author:** ![Disinfectus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/disinfectus/32/11085_2.png) [@Disinfectus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Disinfectus)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2026, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/karoline-leavitt-and-her-successors/1018138/49 "2026-01-27T10:21:51Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](#): > > and reminded us that he was once awarded a medal by Barack _Hussein_ Obama. Yeah, that pissed me off as well. It’s just straight up trolling and totally unprofessional. I think she is the worst to ever hold that position by a mile. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2026, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/karoline-leavitt-and-her-successors/1018138/50 "2026-01-27T10:29:46Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](#): > > She was singing the praises of fathead Tom Homan, and reminded us that he was once awarded a medal by Barack _Hussein_ Obama. I’m not sure why, but that ignorant phrase coming out of her slapable puss really set me off. She’s always been insufferable, but she’s really gone full Stepford. Leavitt is a full-fledged member of the cult, and as such, much too immersed in it to realize how much she’s revealing the irrationality of the cultism. She and others like her are probably responsible for various official statements out of the White House that sound like the pompous rantings of a toddler full of himself and denigrating everyone he disagrees with. As for Tom Homan, despite his last name, I’m not sure he’s entirely human. Seems to me, in appearance and mannerisms, more like an orangutan. ---
**Author:** ![Jihi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jihi/32/17768_2.png) [@Jihi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jihi)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2026, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/karoline-leavitt-and-her-successors/1018138/51 "2026-01-27T10:56:28Z")
Let’s not forget that Tom Homan is also disgustingly corrupt and an unrepentant thief as well. Which makes him not at all any different than anyone else in the regime. > **[Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents....](https://www.ms.now/news/tom-homan-cash-contracts-trump-doj-investigation-rcna232568?embedded=app&platform=android&appVersion=13.2.0)** > > The FBI and Justice officials closed the investigation, which a Justice Department appointee had called a “deep state” probe in early 2025. TLDR; Homan accepted $50,000 from undercover FBI agents in a bribery sting. He of course denies it but there’s video and audio recordings of the meeting. Trump’s DOJ buried the investigation of course and it seems to have been quietly swept under the rug at this point. The money has never been recovered and no one seems to know what happened to it. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2026, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/karoline-leavitt-and-her-successors/1018138/52 "2026-01-27T11:11:05Z")
For this group of criminals $50,000 seems quaint. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2026, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/karoline-leavitt-and-her-successors/1018138/53 "2026-01-27T14:57:28Z")
I know, I won’t even get out of bed for less than $100K. You can’t even buy a new car with $50K. It’s pocket money. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2026, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/karoline-leavitt-and-her-successors/1018138/54 "2026-01-27T15:20:48Z")
There’s a long tradition of White House press secretaries making excuses for and covering up Presidents’ missteps and transgressions. Leavitt, however, has taken lying to such a level that would make even Ron Ziegler\* blush. Such a repellent stooge has never had the job before. \*known as Ron Zig-liar to some reporters, he became notorious for dismissing a set of lies coming from the Nixon White House by saying those statements were now “inoperative”. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2026, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/karoline-leavitt-and-her-successors/1018138/55 "2026-01-27T15:33:49Z")
I’d like to suggest that, going forward, we refer to Ms. Leavitt as either [**Leni**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leni_Riefenstahl) or [**Eva**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_Braun). It would be my surmise that history will view these as fairly apt characterizations. Incidentally, I asked ChatGPT how it is that Eva’s cross doesn’t burst into flames. > **The response** > > 😂 Short answer: **because it’s metaphorical, not pyrotechnic.** > > Longer, tongue-in-cheek answer: crosses don’t burst into flames from hypocrisy, political spin, or irony—if they did, half of cable news would need a fire marshal on standby. 🔥✝ > > If you want to be extra nerdy about it: symbols don’t react to behavior; _people_ react to contradictions. The “flames” are rhetorical, not chemical. > > If you were going for a sharper punchline or a meme-ready version, I can help you workshop it 😏 ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2026, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/karoline-leavitt-and-her-successors/1018138/56 "2026-01-29T15:12:44Z")
You don’t get her job in this administration by being thoughtful and respectful, you have to demonstrate the ability to be both mind-numbingly ignorant and condescending to those that have forgotten more than you will ever know. Her appearances have nothing to do with informing the public and everything to do with toeing the Reich’s line and praising the Dear Leader and making any who dare suggest that he is not right about everything to be scum who should be executed. I’m sure that she got the job because Donnie finds her physically attractive. I can’t think of any woman in the administration that this would not apply to. ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2026, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/karoline-leavitt-and-her-successors/1018138/57 "2026-01-29T15:36:42Z")
She used to be known in the Harry Potter universe as Rita Skeeter. Then she threw morals and decency overboard and came into the real world of MAGA were she fit like a glove. TIL a new word: strumpet. Apart from its meaning as per dictionary it is full of possibilities, somehow funny. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2026, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/karoline-leavitt-and-her-successors/1018138/58 "2026-01-29T15:41:31Z")
It’s worth noting that Leavitt is such a cultist that she cut short her maternity leave after Trump was shot. But she also announced in December that [she’s pregnant](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/white-house-press-secretary-karoline-leavitt-announces-pregnancy-rcna251051). ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2026, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/karoline-leavitt-and-her-successors/1018138/59 "2026-01-29T15:58:26Z")
Poor thing! That will be an unhappy baby. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2026, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/karoline-leavitt-and-her-successors/1018138/60 "2026-01-29T17:30:21Z")
He’ll probably look snazzy in his hugo boss onesie, with his cute little peaked cap. He’ll be making one armed salutes before he can walk. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/karoline-leavitt-and-her-successors/1018138.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/karoline-leavitt-and-her-successors/1018138.md?page=4)