President Donald Trump’s 27-year-old White House press secretary is losing support within the Republican’s MAGA movement — and, according to a top political analyst, it is all because she insulted her own generation.
“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,” Karoline Leavitt told Fox News host Jesse Watters last week. A columnist for MS NOW offered a sharp observation as to why this is happening.
“Poll after poll has shown that President Donald Trump’s support among young people has plummeted since he retook office, with his economic policies being a major reason,” wrote MS NOW political analyst Ja’han Jones on Monday. “And Trump hasn’t helped his likability by describing the affordability crisis as a ‘hoax’ and downplaying the need to lower housing costs.”
Jones added that “as a 27-year-old member of the most corrupt and shamelessly self-enriching administration in modern U.S. history — and someone who has used her taxpayer-funded job to spread lies and launch childish insults on its behalf — Leavitt is arguably the epitome of entitlement.” Despite her own privileged background, Jones described Leavitt as trying “to cast that aspersion on other young people,” even noting that she described the supposed trend on “laziness and the liberal indoctrination” and suggested that Generation Z-ers be sent to Cuba or Iran.
The MS NOW pundit quoted tweets in which MAGA influencers denounced Leavitt.
“I assumed the quotes circulating were made up because no one is this evil but apparently they’re real,” wrote The Blaze columnist Auron MacIntyre. “She should be fired immediately, this is disgusting.”
Similarly, Mark Mitchell of Rasmussen Reports posted that “if it isn’t careful, the GOP will be the effigy of Boomers that the youth choose to burn.”
Although Leavitt attributed the criticism of her remarks to “bad faith actors,” Jones observed that “the post did little to quiet her critics. And if the personal jabs from MAGA influencers citing Leavitt’s marriage to a wealthy real estate investor three decades her senior are any sign, she and the administration have a lot of work to do to improve their image in the eyes of young people — in the Republican Party and beyond.”
Leavitt has a long history of controversies related to her wealth and being seemingly out of touch. Earlier this month, it came out that she still owes $300,000 to campaign creditors from her 2022 run for Congress in New Hampshire. Three months earlier, when trying to defend Trump’s economic policies, Leavitt incorrectly claimed that Trump was “bringing down prices at the pump. Look at how gas prices decreased over the past year since this president was in office.” Speaking to this journalist for Salon in 2024, shortly after the second assassination attempt against Trump, Leavitt complained that people who compared Trump to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler were “disgusting,” saying that “it’s been less [than] 72 hours since the second assassination attempt on President Trump’s life and the media is already back to comparing President Trump to Hitler. It’s disgusting. This is why Americans have zero trust in the liberal mainstream media.”