Karoline Leavitt’s Zoomer-Bashing Is Bad for America

The American Conservative ^ | July 12th, 2026 | Scott Greer

[River Hawk]

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt isn’t thrilled with her generation. In a recent interview with Fox News’ Jesse Watters, she agreed that her fellow Zoomers are lazy and entitled. “This generation, my generation, I hate to say it, Gen Z and those younger than me have been raised with just silver spoons in their mouths,” she told the Fox News host. She added that they’ve been given everything and are completely ungrateful for those privileges. She even thinks some of them need to be sent to Cuba or Iran to straighten up.

The comments didn’t land well on social media. But Leavitt wasn’t bothered by the outrage. She doubled down in a lengthy X post. “I was asked by Jesse Watters why so many young people are buying the false promise of ‘free stuff’ being sold by communist politicians,” she wrote. “My answer: a combination of laziness, yes, and the liberal indoctrination that has been taking place in our education system for far too long.”

It’s a strange message for the administration to blast out when President Donald Trump is underwater with young voters. Generational conflict is stupid. We shouldn’t hate our parents and grandparents. At the same time, our parents and grandparents shouldn’t hate the future of our country. While both sides of the generational war are making waves in politics, animosity toward the young is a more powerful force. Property tax bans, which would defund services such as schools meant for the next generation, are pushed by older Americans—not the young. There is zero effort to reform the entitlements enjoyed by Boomers.

If Republicans want a chance to win over the young, they’ll have to stop with Zoomer-bashing aimed for the old.

Young people aren’t the enemy.

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TOPICS: Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: age; concerntroll; concerntrolling; electorate; gop; growathickerskin; karolineleavitt; snowflakes

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[doorgunner69]

“The comments didn’t land well on social media.”

Well, that is where Gen-Z goes for their information after all.

[Organic Panic]

Gen Z.

They have been brainwashed to hate the country and themselves by their teachers and media. They have watched millions upon millions of foreigners take jobs housing and other resources that are meant to go to Americans. Political leaders grovel to America hating Islamists and illegal aliens. Public schools are garbage. Colleges are little more than indoctrination camps.

They got gypped by the commie boomers who took over education media and pop culture

[ArcadeQuarters]

Regardless of how true this is, don’t dismiss a whole generation. Thats how boomer politicians lost gen X. Guide and encourage gen z conservatives. They exist just as gen x conservatives exist.

[sten]

She’s not wrong.

i would compare my background (early genX) to any genZ today and they’d choke.

100+ hr weeks? they’d riot if it went over 45.

physically tough? hardly.

these would be the soft times shaping the current generation.

there was wisdom in how the Spartans raised their boys.

[rarestia]

Gen Z conservatives aren’t the ones who took offense to Leavitt’s comments. They’re nodding in agreement. I know several Gen Z and Gen Alpha conservatives, and they are going to be some of the staunchest Christian Americans we’ve seen come up in a long time.