Karoline Leavitt has spent a lot of her time on the White Home lectern berating journalists for his or her questions—now one member of the media is hitting again.
On Wednesday’s episode of Countdown with Keith Olbermann, the previous MSNBC host excoriated Leavitt for her often incorrect pronunciations of names and phrases.
Olbermann referred to as Leavitt “belligerent, condescending, and aggressively silly.”
“Her chief achievement is she doesn’t really communicate English,” he stated. “She referred to as Hitler Hilter. She has repeatedly mispronounced Trump’s title.”
Leavitt at a White Home press briefing on August 12. Her typically combative interactions with reporters have received her no favors with the media. / MANDEL NGAN / Mandel Ngan/AFP through Getty Photographs
“Final week she insisted Trump, or as she typically calls him, Chump, deserves the Noble Peace Prize.”
The podcast host went on to play a compilation of Leavitt’s verbal flubs, which he known as “the Corridor of Fame of Karoline Leavitt.”
“Leavitt clearly stopped studying across the sixth or seventh grade as a result of she grew to become satisfied that at that time she knew every little thing,” the pundit stated.
Earlier this week, Leavitt mispronounced “pundit” as “pundint” whereas she attacked TV journalists for not giving the president sufficient credit score for his bilateral negotiations with Vladimir Putin.
In Might, throughout an interview on Hannity, Leavitt additionally had bother with the phrase “apprenticeships,” telling the Fox host that the US wants extra “apprentinships.”
Exterior of the best way she speaks, Olbermann additionally critiqued Leavitt for the content material of her interactions with the media.
“As I’ve identified a number of occasions, there’s the phrase ‘lie’ in each her first and final names,” Olbermann stated.
He additionally needled her for her tendency to bristle at pointed questions. The White Home has sought to restrict the affect of legacy media organizations just like the Related Press and CNN by giving area to right-wing retailers similar to Actual America’s Voice and The Day by day Caller.
“Second, there’s the truth that in a room stuffed with softball questions from right-wing vegetation, just like the Pizzagate man who was there the opposite day, she was actually a softball participant who obtained a scholarship to play softball at an obscure faculty.”
Leavitt has given more room within the White Home briefing room to right-wing journalists like Actual America’s Voice reporter Brian Glenn. Glenn gained notoriety for asking Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky if he owned a go well with earlier this yr. / Andrew Harnik / Getty Photographs
Leavitt, who at 27 is the youngest particular person to function press secretary, performed softball at Saint Anselm Faculty in New Hampshire.
She joined the primary Trump White Home in 2019, proper out of school, and ascended to the function of assistant press secretary by June 2020.
Within the interim interval between Trump’s administrations, she ran for Congress in New Hampshire in 2022. She didn’t win, however she accrued $300,000 in unpaid marketing campaign money owed, which she solely disclosed to the Federal Elections Fee in January of this yr.
President Donald Trump has expressed his admiration for Leavitt, saying that she has “lips that transfer like a machine gun” and that she is a “famous person.”
Olbermann would beg to vary.
The White Home didn’t reply to a right away request for remark.