Donald Trump joked about needing to grab Karoline Leavitt to avoid falling over on a turbulent Air Force One flight on Sunday. The commander-in-chief, 79, took questions from reporters but had to briefly pause the gaggle as he struggled to stand on his return from Mar-a-Lago to Washington DC . The president then turned to his loyal press secretary Leavitt and blurted out that he needed to stop himself from falling down.
She looked around the flight cabin for something to prop the boss up. ‘I’m looking for something to grab here. Because it’s going to get rough. I think you did this to me, you put me in a position where there’s absolutely nothing to grab,’ Trump said, blaming reporters. ‘So I’m looking for something to grab. And it’s not going to be Karoline!’
Leavitt appeared to briefly pull back from Trump but smiled as she moved his hand toward a nearby curtain. The White House press pool ignored Trump’s odd comment, and instead continued quizzing the President about foreign policy matters. Trump has previously made other ‘dad jokes’ about Leavitt, including when he praised her last August for having ‘lips that move like a machine gun.’
Trump Praises Leavitt, Who Recently Announced Her Pregnancy
The President said, ‘She’s become a star. It’s that face. It’s that brain. It’s those lips, the way they move. They move like she’s a machine gun … She’s a star and she’s great.’ Leavitt, 28, recently announced she and her 60-year-old husband, Nicholas Riccio, are expecting their second child. The MAGA superstar has been one of Trump’s longest reigning press secretaries routinely earning the praise of her boss.
Trump Suggests Leavitt Will Stay for Rest of Second Term
Other Trump press secretaries, including Sean Spicer, have hard short-lived careers at the White House with their press briefings often marked by chaos. Leavitt, on other hand, appears to be going nowhere. In October, Trump implied that Leavitt would be staying in the White House for the full remainder of his second term. ‘How’s Karoline doing? Is she doing good?’ Trump asked reporters. ‘Should Karoline be replaced?’ Trump quickly replied, ‘It’ll never happen.’
