Oh, what a difference a change of administration makes. Until a few weeks ago, we had to listen to three years of this from the White House press room:
That’s President Biden’s press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre. You’d be hard pressed to find a presidential spokeswoman who answered fewer direct questions, or who threw more tantrums or scolded more reporters when she didn’t like being questioned on a sensitive topic.
And what was a sensitive topic? Anything connected to reality. Jean-Pierre would get exasperated and snippy at any reporter who asked about Biden’s obvious senility, or about the legality of his attempts to make American taxpayers pay off the student loan debts of individual students. Or about anything.
Like the rest of the pathological narcissists in the Democrat party, Jean-Pierre thought very highly of herself. She made sure to point out that she was “making history” by being the first black lesbian to hold her job when she was new at it. Then, on her way out, she waxed self-lovingly about how she contemplates the many little girls “looking at me,” and how she hopes she’s “an inspiration” to them.
The page has turned. President Donald Trump’s press secretary Karoline Leavitt is just 27 years old, but she has a direct and commanding no-nonsense communication style that would leave seasoned public speakers envious.
Here she is explaining-telling, not asking-that the administration is putting tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China, for their part in the fentanyl epidemic that “has killed tens of millions of Americans.”
Want more? Leavitt’s got you covered. In the same press briefing, she told the plain truth about the probable origins of Covid-19. But more importantly, she pointed out that Trump and Republicans were smeared as “conspiracy theorists” when they talked about the lab-leak hypothesis that even the CIA is now saying is likely where the disease came from.
Then, Leavitt heats it up with an unequivocal declaration that no one can expect to get a job in government anymore by trading on their skin color, sexuality, or any other “protected” characteristic. Competence, she said, will be the deciding factor in hiring decisions:
And for dessert, just watch her demolish a reporter trying to impugn Trump’s character by kibbitzing about the fact that he sometimes uses profanity:
