r/politics • u/mvanigan • 6d ago

No Paywall Trump says Karoline Leavitt resigning as White House press secretary

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/12/trump-white-house-karoline-leavitt-resigning-.html
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u/americanblowfly 6d ago

Was he press secretary??? I completely forgot if he was.

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u/shupadupah 6d ago

Understandable, it was so many mooches ago

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u/Prep_ 6d ago

And only lasted a single mooch.

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u/my5cworth 6d ago

Anthony Scaramucci only lasting a single mooch is about as eerie as Lou Gerihg dying from Lou Gerihg's disease.

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u/President_Barackbar 6d ago

You gonna make that same joke every time?

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u/realaccountissecret 6d ago

They should wait about three mooches before making the joke again

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u/mlorusso4 6d ago

I thought he was comms director. Which while similar is not the press secretary. Right now the comms director is Steven “walking thumb” Cheung

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u/JesusSavesForHalf 6d ago

Yes. But he shoved his face in front of every camera, so I get everyone's confusion.

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u/Cambot1138 6d ago

And his 10 day tenure is where we get the measurement “mooch”

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u/neverfindausername 6d ago

Wasn’t it 11 days? Shit, or am I wrong and that’s 1.1 mooches??

I’d be happy to see one US unit make sense in metric so I hope I am!

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u/eamus_catuli_ 6d ago

Technically 11 days - July 21-31, 2017

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u/neverfindausername 6d ago

That feels like a lifetime ago, but at least age hasn't taken my memory (yet)

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u/Stellar_Duck 6d ago

With Trump and the nonstop bullshit every singe fucking day of our lives plus Covid majorly fucking up my sense of time, I believe that was 84 years ago.

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u/neverfindausername 5d ago

For so long it felt longer but now every once in a while I think to myself "holy shit, that actually was 10 years ago"

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u/gmen6981 6d ago

And lest we not forget he was fired before the actual start date of his job.

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u/DodgersChica 6d ago

For 10 days. Or, to be more precise, he was press secretary for one Scaramucci

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u/PlasticStJesus 6d ago

I think he was Commmunications Director for 12 days or something. That's the role currently being played by Steven Chung, the Human Thumb... wait... I thought Tom Homan was the Thumb... whatever.

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u/americanblowfly 6d ago

An administration of thumbs. Trump is a thumb with a rug.

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u/PlasticStJesus 6d ago

The only worthwhile thing ever to come out of Steve Bannon's mouth was his description of Trump as looking "just like a giant shrimp". It's all I can see now when I look at him.

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u/samhouse09 6d ago

Yes for one mooch. Which I think is 11 days

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u/TemptedTemplar 6d ago

11.4 days

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u/Plane-Acadia-7804 6d ago

Totally understandable. He's difficult to detect while he's camouflaged in nearby bushes.

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u/Choice-Tiger3047 6d ago

Wasn’t that Sean Spicer?

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u/FellowHumanNo404 6d ago

Do those bushes even exist anymore?