President Donald Trump’s former Homeland Security chief of staff, Miles Taylor, is mocking the Republican’s current press secretary for a gaffe that arguably symbolizes the administration’s larger seeming ineptitude.
Reflecting on how Karoline Leavitt said that what Trump reveals tonight "will shock you if you have an honest eye listening to the president,” Miles Taylor quipped that “yes, and if your ears watch closely, you'll be doubly stunned.”
This is not Leavitt’s first faux pas. Earlier this month, while speaking with Fox News journalist Jesse Watters, the 27-year-old — who achieved her wealth by marrying a New Hampshire real estate developer who is 32 years older than her — expressed scorn for members of Generation Z that she claimed have turned to left-wing politics because they are supposedly entitled.
“My generation — I hate to say it, Gen Z and those younger than me —have been raised with just silver spoons in their mouths, just getting everything handed to them,” Leavitt told Watters. She described Generation Z as being fueled by “laziness and the liberal indoctrination” and suggested that they be sent to fight Trump’s war against Iran and threatened war against Cuba.
Similarly, Leavitt was heavily criticized last year for justifying the administration’s revisions of jobs data so as to imply that the American economy was performing better than was actually the case.
“The jobs data has had...
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