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The 27-Year-Old Press Secretary Who ‘Speaks Trump Fluently’
WSJ via MSN ^ | Feb 15, 2025 | Joshua Chaffin, Meridith McGraw

Posted on 02/16/2025 5:09:04 AM PST by where's_the_Outrage?

It takes loyalty to rise in Donald Trump’s world. And on Saturday, July 13, Karoline Leavitt demonstrated it in uncommon fashion.

As she tells it, Trump’s then-campaign spokeswoman had only just carried her 3-day-old baby boy home from the hospital when she switched on the television to watch her boss’s campaign rally in Butler, Pa.

It turned out to be the fateful event at which a would-be assassin’s bullet clipped Trump’s ear. Almost immediately, according to Leavitt, she and her husband decided: She would scrap a planned maternity leave and go back to work, which she did four days later.

“The President literally put his life on the line to win this election,” she would later explain to the Conservateur, a conservative women’s blog. “The least I could do is get back to work quickly.”

That gesture of devotion is one reason—but hardly the only—that explains why Trump has made Leavitt, 27, the youngest White House press secretary in history.

Her first two weeks behind the lectern have showcased both her precocious skills and a tendency to amplify her boss’s exaggerations. Trump is said to adore Leavitt, proclaiming a “star is born” at a recent White House event. But there is no guarantee it will last with a president who cycled through four press secretaries in his first administration.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: joshuachaffin; karolineleavitt; leavitt; meridithmcgraw; pressscretary; sameoldgaslight; thesameoldgaslight; trump
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Lots of digs from the WSJ: "Leavitt stood in the briefing room and confidently repeated Musk’s falsehood that the U.S. Agency for International Development had spent $50 million to supply condoms to Gazans. "

“If you were to grade her on the conventional wisdom of the job she gets an F. If you would grade her on the current criteria, pleasing Donald Trump, she gets an A plus,”

"For now, Trump has a spokeswoman who appears to have been designed in a laboratory to provoke maximum distress among a certain breed of progressive."

1 posted on 02/16/2025 5:09:04 AM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
She's awesome! She gives it right back in a respectable manner. Even calling out their narratives!

Yes, I hope she survives. If anyone deserves to stay, it is Karoline.

2 posted on 02/16/2025 5:13:33 AM PST by CptnObvious
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

I don’t know what the big deal is. The last two Democrat Press Secretaries spoke their boss’s “ language fluently too.

They lied frequently, tirelessly, and uniformly, even if they weren’t convincing.

All Trump’s Press Secretary needs to do to is tell the truth. It is an easy job!


3 posted on 02/16/2025 5:14:10 AM PST by rlmorel ("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

The Wall Street Journal has gone off the deep end with Trump
Derangement syndrome


4 posted on 02/16/2025 5:15:40 AM PST by WashingtonSource
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

So, at least she’s not a Haitian Lesbian refugee.


5 posted on 02/16/2025 5:15:49 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (The trouble with illegal aliens is that their own crappy countries don't even want them there.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

She’s hot.


6 posted on 02/16/2025 5:18:12 AM PST by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Did they wrote a similar story about sideshow Jean?


7 posted on 02/16/2025 5:19:19 AM PST by Ge0ffrey
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
‘Speaks Trump Fluently’

The linguistic origins of "Trump" would be a fascinating study. A mutually intelligible dialect is spoken by WWII submariners and their derivative cold war fast attack chief petty officer and the warrior class among the submarine officer class. It comes from a spirit of personal competence developed over years of practice and confidence in slaying enemies foreign and domestic, which includes anyone in the Naval Support bureaucracy getting in the way of the mission they are on at the time- the nature of which they [the bureaucrats] are not cleared to know. Sometimes they wouldn't understand it and sometimes they wouldn't approve of it, but the mission was always somehow, arguably, for the greater good. The Blues Brothers, "We're on a mission from God" is another splinter dialect.

Being able to speak Trump involves a certain personal competency, loyalty to a cause, and lots of practice training how to get on with what's important while kicking idiots to the curb. Being able to do so is one of those nature / nurture sort of questions. Is it genetic or is it environmental. I believe it is a genetic trait that is triggered into expression when you have to act in a cause that comes about because morons effed everything up.

8 posted on 02/16/2025 5:21:07 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: rlmorel

“The last two Democrat Press Secretaries spoke their boss’s “ language fluently too.”
Problem with them was that both were liars, one being really good at it - to include a loathsome smirk, and the other barely passing the ‘sentient being’ test.


9 posted on 02/16/2025 5:24:16 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: Libloather

Sure is


10 posted on 02/16/2025 5:26:43 AM PST by daku
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To: Da Coyote

Absolutely.


11 posted on 02/16/2025 5:26:46 AM PST by rlmorel ("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

When she read off her list of things USAID had funded and said, I don’t want my tax dollars paying for this crap, she won me over. She’s fearless.


12 posted on 02/16/2025 5:26:57 AM PST by Lizavetta
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Karoline Leavitt is what feminism was supposed to be about, an accomplished professional who could have a career and a family. But the feminist movement has turned into a bunch of nagging harpies that only care about killing babies and power.


13 posted on 02/16/2025 5:29:16 AM PST by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Brains, beauty, and character.

American woman.


14 posted on 02/16/2025 5:30:46 AM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Racist!


15 posted on 02/16/2025 5:32:06 AM PST by OKSooner (Communists gonna communist.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

first we had the arrogant clown and them we had the racist DEI black lesbian refugee. What a breathe of fresh air!


16 posted on 02/16/2025 5:32:16 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: ronnie raygun

I was impressed the first time she took the podium. That is one smart young lady. Solid American too. Not somebody here speaking Marxist and scrounging off the U.S. taxpayers.


17 posted on 02/16/2025 5:38:29 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (The trouble with illegal aliens is that their own crappy countries don't even want them there.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

WSJ = pure liberal globalist garbage. If you have a subscription, cancel it yesterday.


18 posted on 02/16/2025 5:41:02 AM PST by Eccl 10:2 (Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding")
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To: WashingtonSource

I thought it was just me.

that the WSJ seems more anti-Trump than even his first term.


19 posted on 02/16/2025 5:48:04 AM PST by Phoenix8
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To: FlingWingFlyer

“I was impressed the first time she took the podium. That is one smart young lady.”
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Before she took Trump’s podium, she was a frequent guest on The Howie Carr Show. (1620 AM-RADIO, BOSTON)

Her New Hampshire smarts showed through: I was EXTREMELY impressed. Weeks later, her genius mindset joined Trump—without question.


20 posted on 02/16/2025 5:48:53 AM PST by Does so ("The guilty flee when no man pursueth"....🇺🇦...Dem☭¢rat... ∅ ™ ¿ ¡ ☞≣ ½¼)
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