dailycaller.com White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Friday accused left-leaning media outlets of fixating on a deleted social media post while ignoring what she described as major economic developments under President Donald Trump.
After a backlash, Trump deleted a late-Thursday social media video that depicted former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama as apes. The White House said around noon Friday that the post had been removed. Leavitt addressed the video on “The Ingraham Angle” and said a staffer shared the post, which included a caricature of former Vice President Kamala Harris as a turtle. The president ordered it removed out of respect for lawmakers after speaking with them.
“It was a meme that was posted by a staffer on the president’s Truth Social account. It was from a Lion King video depicting, as you pointed out, different Democrats as different animals,” Leavitt told host Laura Ingraham. “I think Kamala Harris was depicted as a turtle in this video meme. The president did take it down. He spoke with lawmakers today out of respect for them, including Senator Tim Scott.”
Leavitt said the focus on the video distracted from developments that affected all Americans.
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