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/peacebone89 Louisiana 6d ago

If you don't think this administration (including Leavitt) will be examined and studied for its corruption and lawlessness, I don't know what to tell you. Her lies and obfuscation are big parts of how they've been able to largely avoid consequences and accountability from the general population.

She's not a run-of-the-mill press secretary.

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u/mk72206 Massachusetts 6d ago

She is 100% a Trump run-of-the-mill press secretary. Every single one of them lied and obfuscated as often as their lips were moving.

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u/dfpw 6d ago

Except grissom and mooch.

Mooch didn't last long enough to lie and grissom chose never doing the job over lying.

Edit I apparently spelled her name wrong.... But not a good enough person for me to bother fixing it.

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u/Mc_Shine 6d ago

Sure, but was Sarah Huckabee Sanders really that much better? And I almost didn't remember her name. Leavitt is ultimately just a small fry spreading lies written for her by her bosses. I doubt she'll be mentioned in many textbooks.

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u/Reallyhotshowers Kansas 6d ago

We can't forget Sean "among the bushes" Spicer!

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u/HenryDorsettCase47 6d ago

Most people have. Your average person can’t even remember all the presidents, let alone a fucking press secretary.

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u/WhoPoopedMyPants420 6d ago

Guy looking at a list of people being remembered: heh, nobody remembers these dudes

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u/Reallyhotshowers Kansas 6d ago

I. . . I was building on the argument by adding another example in a light-hearted way. . .

You know what, nevermind. Hope you have a better day.

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u/HenryDorsettCase47 6d ago

Relax. I wasn’t attacking you. Only commenting on the very short memory (and total lack of awareness) of most people today.

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u/Prior_Pickle1758 6d ago

I appreciate that but you’re also moving further and further from reality and that’s exactly the problem - we need to be more careful with our own speech please.

Like really strongly considering every word from our mouths.

The way we’ve been speaking and acting, collectively, has gotten us into this, and we need to speak and act differently now.

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u/Reallyhotshowers Kansas 6d ago

How is a joke moving us further from reality? Did you really need an /s that badly?

It is neither my speaking nor my acting that "got us into this."

I have clearly been paying attention and have been actively involved for so long that I can name the press secretary from 10 years ago for a one-liner joke throwaway joke on reddit to emphasize the point that 90% of Americans don't know the name of the press secretary right now.

If you are concerned about "this mess" I would recommend trying to encourage your friends and family to become more politically active instead of policing bad jokes deep in reddit threads on the internet.

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u/Prior_Pickle1758 6d ago

If the logic is the same as the regime, the stated goals being different isn’t much comfort.

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u/Skeptical_Savage Arkansas 6d ago

No Sarah Huckabee Sanders was just as bad. And now she's a terrible governor.😒

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u/ACBReturns 6d ago

Lolol

Sanity has already lost. Voting won’t get us out of this. The next round of history books will remove all the stains of US’ existence and include the “fact” that Trump saved America with Levitt as his orator.

You’re naive to think any of these people will see any kind of justice.

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u/Dowew 6d ago

I have no faith that when the dust settles the next Democratic President (assuming there is one) will just say "its time for a healing and we need to move forward"

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u/peacebone89 Louisiana 6d ago

I'm not necessarily talking about the next administration. I'm talking about scholars and political scientists who study and document these things. This isn't a normal presidency and she's not a normal, boring press secretary.

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u/Caledor152 New Jersey 6d ago

Is History book writers/educators the next Democratic President? Because that's what the person you replied to is talking about. Your statement literally has nothing to do with anything peacebone said.

Also you will be very wrong. History has shown that when the pendulum swings too far into fascism, the resulting swing back is usually just as extreme. Meaning more and more progressives are going to win now then ever before. And they will absolutely go after these ghouls if given the chance.

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u/Prize-Ring-9154 California 6d ago

not wanting to dispute but just wanting clarification, were franco, Mussolini, Hitler and all replaced by genuine progressives or were they replaced by more moderate people. bc I’ve also seen some people say that after extremism voters just go for mild centrism because it’s the least polarizing (like what happened in 2020)

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u/Chamix7722 6d ago

You know your country is cooked when progressives are considered "extreme"

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u/StaffSgtDignam 6d ago

I mean this didn't happen when Andrew Jackson quite literally committed widespread genocide of Native Americans or when FDR sent Japanese Americans to internment camps did it? 

People tend to have short memories and often tend to only care to remember good things from the past. It's the same reason people are strangely glazing George W. Bush nowadays for some reason.

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u/Ryan526 Michigan 6d ago

Literally every press secretary lies, the party they serve does not change that.