{"id":7141,"date":"2026-09-14T19:56:30","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T19:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/realstoryus.com\/?p=7141"},"modified":"2026-09-14T19:56:36","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T19:56:36","slug":"donald-trump-gushes-about-press-secretary-karoline-leavitts-lips-again-as-he-vows-to-never-replace-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/realstoryus.com\/?p=7141","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump Gushes About Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt&#8217;s Lips Again as He Vows to &#8216;Never&#8217; Replace Her"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump praised his 28-year-old press secretary&#8217;s physical appearance while speaking to reporters on Air Force One<\/p>\n<div class=\"loc article-content\">\n<figure id=\"figure-article_1-0\" class=\"comp figure-article mntl-universal-primary-image right-rail__offset text-utility-100 figure-landscape primary-image\">\n<div class=\"primary-image__media\">\n<div class=\"img-placeholder\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"primary-image__image mntl-primary-image--blurry loaded\" src=\"https:\/\/people.com\/thmb\/EzZwN-3WE-0yN3BiyyVh5Oy8QXw=\/1500x0\/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():focal(818x272:820x274):format(webp)\/Donald-Trump-Karoline-Leavitt-2-101425-387e076ad09c4c69a0e403efa440620c.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, 750px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/people.com\/thmb\/LtPZg2bwth29EQYpgT9l61qdHQc=\/750x0\/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():focal(818x272:820x274):format(webp)\/Donald-Trump-Karoline-Leavitt-2-101425-387e076ad09c4c69a0e403efa440620c.jpg 750w\" alt=\" U.S. President Donald Trump, joined by White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, speaks to the media as he departs the White House on July 15, 2025 in Washington, DC. \" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption id=\"primary-image__figcap_1-0\" class=\"comp primary-image__figcap mntl-figure-caption figure-article-caption\">\n<div class=\"xdj266r x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Karoline Leavitt is out, and the &#8220;bittersweet&#8221; farewell she posted to X can&#8217;t launder what her tenure actually was: the most systematic assault on the free press any modern podium has delivered.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Look at the record she&#8217;s fleeing.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">She barred the Associated Press from the briefing room because it wouldn&#8217;t rename the Gulf of Mexico to flatter Trump.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">She warned reporters from day one that &#8220;lies&#8221; would be &#8220;held accountable,&#8221; turning a public briefing into a loyalty test.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">She handed the coveted first question to the &#8220;new media chair,&#8221; stacking her front row with right-wing influencers instead of journalists who&#8217;d press her.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">And when the questions actually landed, she disappeared. She shattered records for the longest stretches without a briefing, 41 days, then 42, then 94. She stonewalled nine straight Epstein questions in one July session. She called a reporter&#8217;s question &#8220;stupid&#8221; and got the economics wrong anyway.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">She branded the Epstein files a &#8220;classic Washington hoax,&#8221; smiling as she said it. She published a statement calling documents &#8220;FAKE NEWS,&#8221; then raged at a reporter for quoting her own words back a day later.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">But Leavitt was never the whole disease. She was the friendly face on it.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Under this administration the US fell to 57th in the world for press freedom, then to an all-time low. Reporters were arrested covering protests. Outlets got hit with billion-dollar lawsuits. The AP was banished for a word.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">That is what a free press dying looks like, and it doesn&#8217;t happen without someone at the podium smiling through it.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">So goodbye, Karoline. Your family gets you back. The country gets a briefing room you spent two years hollowing out.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">And brace yourself folks, because whoever they wheel out to replace her will have watched exactly how she did it, and learned that cruelty to the press gets you promoted, not fired.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div id=\"article-content_1-0\" class=\"comp article-content mntl-block\">\n<div id=\"mntl-sc-page_1-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-page mntl-block structured-content\" data-sc-sticky-offset=\"90\" data-sc-ad-label-height=\"24\" data-sc-ad-track-spacing=\"100\" data-sc-min-track-height=\"250\" data-sc-max-track-height=\"600\" data-sc-breakpoint=\"50em\" data-sc-load-immediate=\"4\" data-sc-content-positions=\"[1, 1250, 1550, 1950, 2350, 2750, 3150, 3550, 3950]\" data-bind-scroll-on-start=\"true\">\n<div id=\"mntl-sc-block_1-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block people-sc-block-callout mntl-sc-block-universal-callout theme-needtoknow\" data-tracking-id=\"mntl-sc-block-callout\" data-tracking-container=\"true\">\n<h3 class=\"mntl-sc-block-universal-callout__heading\">NEED TO KNOW<\/h3>\n<div class=\"mntl-sc-block-universal-callout__body\">\n<ul>\n<li>President Donald Trump praised Karoline Leavitt&#8217;s appearance again while addressing reporters on Air Force One<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;That face&#8230; and those lips, they move like a machine gun,&#8221; Trump said during the Oct. 13 flight<\/li>\n<li>Leavitt, 28, is the youngest-ever White House press secretary, who began working for the president straight out of college during his first term<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_2-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"><a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\">Donald Trump<\/a> took a moment to call attention to <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/karoline-leavitt-11712092\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"2\">Karoline Leavitt<\/a>&#8216;s appearance while praising her tenure as the White House press secretary.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_4-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">While departing Israel on Air Force One on Oct. 13, the president <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fy41_0ESH_g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"externalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\">took questions<\/a> from pool reporters on the presidential plane, while Leavitt was standing nearby.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_6-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">Trump, 79, was answering a question about his international diplomacy when he abruptly pivoted to talk about his 28-year-old press secretary.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_8-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">&#8220;How&#8217;s Karoline doing? Is she doing good?&#8221; Trump asked reporters of her job performance. &#8220;Should Karoline be replaced?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_10-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">When the group expressed support for her, Trump assured that replacing her would &#8220;never happen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_12-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">As a reporter started to ask another question, Trump continued of Leavitt: &#8220;That face&#8230; and those lips, they move like a machine gun.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"mntl-sc-block_14-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block people-sc-block-image mntl-sc-block-image mntl-sc-block-image--no-theme no-theme figure-landscape figure-high-res\">\n<div class=\"figure-media\">\n<div class=\"img-placeholder\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"mntl-sc-block-image_1-0\" class=\"mntl-image mntl-image universal-image__image lazyloadwait lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/people.com\/thmb\/8pYXUjQJoK2BHA0PhYl_-Az6hto=\/4000x0\/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():focal(834x464:836x466):format(webp)\/Donald-Trump-Karoline-Leavitt-4-101425-63df677e197b4185886945beab667668.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, 4000px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/people.com\/thmb\/8pYXUjQJoK2BHA0PhYl_-Az6hto=\/4000x0\/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():focal(834x464:836x466):format(webp)\/Donald-Trump-Karoline-Leavitt-4-101425-63df677e197b4185886945beab667668.jpg 4000w\" alt=\"US President Donald Trump, next to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, speaks to reporters while in flight on Air Force One en route Joint Base Andrews, on January 27, 2025.\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" data-src=\"https:\/\/people.com\/thmb\/8pYXUjQJoK2BHA0PhYl_-Az6hto=\/4000x0\/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():focal(834x464:836x466):format(webp)\/Donald-Trump-Karoline-Leavitt-4-101425-63df677e197b4185886945beab667668.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/people.com\/thmb\/8pYXUjQJoK2BHA0PhYl_-Az6hto=\/4000x0\/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():focal(834x464:836x466):format(webp)\/Donald-Trump-Karoline-Leavitt-4-101425-63df677e197b4185886945beab667668.jpg 4000w\" data-sizes=\"4000px\" data-expand=\"300\" data-click-tracked=\"true\" data-img-lightbox-variant=\"\" data-tracking-container=\"true\" data-img-lightbox=\"true\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption id=\"mntl-figure-caption_1-0\" class=\"comp mntl-figure-caption text-utility-100 figure-article-caption\"><span class=\"figure-article-caption-text\">Donald Trump and Karoline Leavitt aboard Air Force One on Jan. 27, 2025.<\/span>MANDEL NGAN\/AFP via Getty<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_17-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">The president made similar comments about Leavitt \u2014 the youngest White House press secretary in history \u2014 during an August interview with Newsmax. When host Rob Finnerty asked Trump&#8217;s opinion of Leavitt, Trump gave her overwhelming praise,\u00a0regarding both her work and her physical appearance.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_19-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">&#8220;She&#8217;s become a star. It&#8217;s that face, it&#8217;s that brain, it&#8217;s those lips \u2014\u00a0the way they move, they move like she&#8217;s a machine gun,&#8221; Trump said, smiling. He then turned to address someone off camera, and asked, &#8220;Is she in the room?&#8221; She was, Finnerty confirmed.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_21-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">&#8220;She&#8217;s a star, and she&#8217;s great. I don&#8217;t think anybody has ever had a better press secretary than Karoline. She&#8217;s been amazing,&#8221; Trump added.<\/p>\n<div id=\"mntl-sc-block_23-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block people-sc-block-spotlight--mid-circ mntl-sc-block-spotlight--mid-circ mntl-block\">\n<h2 id=\"midcirc__heading_1-0\" class=\"comp midcirc__heading mntl-text-block\">Related Stories<\/h2>\n<div id=\"midcirc__card-list_1-0\" class=\"comp midcirc__card-list mntl-block\">\n<div id=\"midcirc-card__title_1-0\" class=\"comp midcirc-card__title mntl-text-block\">White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, 27, Addresses Her &#8216;Atypical&#8217; 32-Year Age Gap with Husband<\/div>\n<div id=\"midcirc-card__image-wrapper_1-0\" class=\"comp midcirc-card__image-wrapper mntl-block\">\n<div class=\"midcirc-card__image mntl-image card__media universal-image__container\">\n<div class=\"img-placeholder\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"universal-image__image lazyloadwait lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/people.com\/thmb\/-_9bjN_VKZoWTfDGM-aSi8T1ZSk=\/300x200\/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():format(webp)\/karoline-leavitt-Nicholas-Riccio-031725-6ebb2b090ab341d8a77933d2c82bb707.jpg\" alt=\"White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt and Nicholas Riccio\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" data-src=\"https:\/\/people.com\/thmb\/-_9bjN_VKZoWTfDGM-aSi8T1ZSk=\/300x200\/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():format(webp)\/karoline-leavitt-Nicholas-Riccio-031725-6ebb2b090ab341d8a77933d2c82bb707.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"midcirc-card__title_2-0\" class=\"comp midcirc-card__title mntl-text-block\">Trump Repeatedly Calls Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni &#8216;Beautiful&#8217;<\/div>\n<div id=\"midcirc-card__image-wrapper_2-0\" class=\"comp midcirc-card__image-wrapper mntl-block\">\n<div class=\"midcirc-card__image mntl-image card__media universal-image__container\">\n<div class=\"img-placeholder\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"universal-image__image lazyloadwait lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/people.com\/thmb\/eT9bwyQrKIdkwcUc7QyMd_6tA40=\/300x200\/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():format(webp)\/georgia-meloni-donald-trump-1-101425-19c6e80bd64f49eb806a1d2b5d78a35f.jpg\" alt=\"U.S. President Donald Trump (R) greets Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni during a summit of European and Middle Eastern leaders on October 13, 2025 in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. \" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" data-src=\"https:\/\/people.com\/thmb\/eT9bwyQrKIdkwcUc7QyMd_6tA40=\/300x200\/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():format(webp)\/georgia-meloni-donald-trump-1-101425-19c6e80bd64f49eb806a1d2b5d78a35f.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_25-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">Leavitt worked as Trump&#8217;s national press secretary during his 2024 presidential campaign, earning her the coveted White House press secretary gig in January.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_27-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">Leavitt first entered Trump&#8217;s political sphere straight out of college, during his previous administration, when she was hired at the White House Office of Presidential Correspondence in 2019. After rising to become associate director of the office, she pivoted to the White House communications team to work as an assistant press secretary.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_29-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">When Trump&#8217;s first term ended in 2021, Leavitt was hired as New York Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/politics\/who-is-elise-stefanik-liz-cheney-replacement\/\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\">Elise Stefanik<\/a>&#8216;s communications director. She soon <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/karoline-leavitt-congressional-campaign-still-in-debt-after-spending-illegal-donations-11782766\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"2\">mounted a congressional run in New Hampshire<\/a>, unsuccessfully challenging Democratic Rep. Chris Pappas in 2022.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"mntl-sc-block_31-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block people-sc-block-image mntl-sc-block-image mntl-sc-block-image--no-theme no-theme figure-landscape figure-high-res\">\n<div class=\"figure-media\">\n<div class=\"img-placeholder\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"mntl-sc-block-image_2-0\" class=\"mntl-image mntl-image universal-image__image lazyloadwait lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/people.com\/thmb\/d6ClBXX6N3lYFHNXBSgS0Nawreo=\/4000x0\/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():focal(834x272:836x274):format(webp)\/Donald-Trump-Karoline-Leavitt-3-101425-36d0c6964fdc492eae9151e7d4a923c9.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, 4000px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/people.com\/thmb\/d6ClBXX6N3lYFHNXBSgS0Nawreo=\/4000x0\/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():focal(834x272:836x274):format(webp)\/Donald-Trump-Karoline-Leavitt-3-101425-36d0c6964fdc492eae9151e7d4a923c9.jpg 4000w\" alt=\"White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt (2nd-L) speaks after being asked to join U.S. President Donald Trump during a news conference in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House August 11, 2025 in Washington, DC.\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" data-src=\"https:\/\/people.com\/thmb\/d6ClBXX6N3lYFHNXBSgS0Nawreo=\/4000x0\/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():focal(834x272:836x274):format(webp)\/Donald-Trump-Karoline-Leavitt-3-101425-36d0c6964fdc492eae9151e7d4a923c9.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/people.com\/thmb\/d6ClBXX6N3lYFHNXBSgS0Nawreo=\/4000x0\/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():focal(834x272:836x274):format(webp)\/Donald-Trump-Karoline-Leavitt-3-101425-36d0c6964fdc492eae9151e7d4a923c9.jpg 4000w\" data-sizes=\"4000px\" data-expand=\"300\" data-click-tracked=\"true\" data-img-lightbox-variant=\"\" data-tracking-container=\"true\" data-img-lightbox=\"true\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption id=\"mntl-figure-caption_2-0\" class=\"comp mntl-figure-caption text-utility-100 figure-article-caption\"><span class=\"figure-article-caption-text\">Press secretary Karoline Leavitt stands in the White House Briefing Room on Aug. 11, 2025.<\/span>Andrew Harnik\/Getty<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_32-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">Trump&#8217;s most recent comments about Leavitt&#8217;s appearance came on the same day he repeatedly called Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni &#8220;beautiful&#8221; while giving an address at the Gaza summit on Oct. 13.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_34-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">&#8220;Where is she &#8230; there she is,&#8221; Trump said when he located Meloni, who was standing behind him on sta<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump praised his 28-year-old press secretary&#8217;s physical appearance while speaking to reporters on Air Force One Karoline Leavitt is out, and the &#8220;bittersweet&#8221; farewell she posted to X can&#8217;t launder &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebrity","category-new"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/realstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/realstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/realstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7141"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/realstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7148,"href":"https:\/\/realstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7141\/revisions\/7148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/realstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}