{"id":2354821,"date":"2026-04-01T23:48:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T23:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2354821"},"modified":"2026-04-01T23:48:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T23:48:17","slug":"donald-trump-asks-karoline-leavitt-if-bad-press-is-her-fault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/donald-trump-asks-karoline-leavitt-if-bad-press-is-her-fault\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump Asks Karoline Leavitt If Bad Press Is Her Fault"},"content":{"rendered":"

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President Donald Trump<\/strong><\/a> took a dig at White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt<\/strong> while discussing the backlash he has received.<\/p>\n

\u201cI got 93 percent bad publicity, some people say 97, but between 93 and 97,\u201d Trump, 79, said in the Oval Office<\/a> while signing legislation on Tuesday, March 31. \u201cA person that gets 97 percent of bad \u2026 maybe Karoline\u2019s doing a poor job, I don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump, who did not give a source to those figures, looked over at Leavitt, 28, who was standing with members of the press.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re doing a terrible job,\u201d he quipped before jokingly asking, \u201cShall we keep her? I think we\u2019ll keep her.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n Related: <\/span>WH Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt’s Family Guide: Age-Gap Romance, More<\/span><\/a>
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\n\t\t\tWhite House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt is building her family while growing her political career. On December 26, 2025, Leavitt announced she and her husband Nicholas Riccio, who is 32 years her senior, are expecting their second baby together. The pair are also mom and dad to Nicholas Robert \u201cNiko\u201d Riccio. \u201cThe greatest Christmas gift [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

This isn\u2019t the first time Trump has joked about keeping Leavitt on his staff. Last year, Trump asked reporters to evaluate Leavitt.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow\u2019s Karoline doing? Is she doing good?\u201d Trump said in October 2025. \u201cShould Karoline be replaced?\u201d<\/p>\n

Several members of the press vouched for Leavitt, and Trump assured her that would \u201cnever happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat face \u2026 and those lips, they move like a machine gun,\u201d he joked.<\/p>\n

Leavitt started working for Trump as his national press secretary during his 2024 presidential campaign. After he won the election against Kamala Harris, Leavitt joined Trump when he took office for his second presidential term in January 2025. She made history as the youngest person to hold the position as White House press secretary.<\/p>\n

While Trump has joked about firing Leavitt before, he has mostly spoken highly of her and the work she has done on his team.<\/p>\n

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