President Donald Trump raised eyebrows Friday when he praised White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt not just for her work—but for her looks.
“She’s become a star. It’s that face. It’s that brain. It’s those lips, the way they move. They move like she’s a machine gun,” Trump said during an interview on Newsmax. “Is she in the room?” he asked. When told she was, he added, “She’s a star and she’s great. She’s a great person, actually. But she’s– I don’t think anybody has ever had a better press secretary than Karoline. She’s been amazing.”
Leavitt, 27, is the youngest press secretary to serve in the White House. She’s known for aggressively defending Trump and echoing his claims.
Trump’s comments came during a sit-down with host Rob Finnerty after a rocky economic day: a weak July jobs report sent the stock market tumbling, and job numbers from May and June were quietly revised downward. Trump responded by firing the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
But the headlines quickly shifted to his odd, personal remarks about Leavitt.
Earlier that same day, Leavitt took the podium at the White House and delivered an exaggerated defense of Trump’s foreign policy.
“This means President Trump has brokered, on average, about one peace deal or ceasefire per month during his six months in office,” she claimed. “It’s well past time that President Trump was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.”
Trump’s “machine gun” comment is now drawing scrutiny—not for policy, but for how a president talks about the women who work for him.
Watch the clip below:
Trump on Karoline Leavitt: She's become a star. It's that face. It's that brain. It's those lips. The way they move. pic.twitter.com/w1IpjKKcD7
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