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D. Spaulding

(517 posts)
Fri Oct 17, 2025, 12:06 AM Oct 2025

Are they serious? Is this really an answer given by the press secretary of a U.S. president?!

When is America going to wake up? No one else infuriated at this? Concerned? Are we all asleep or hypnotized by our phones? Our country must be a freaking laughingstock.

White House officials issued a childish retort on Thursday to a reporter's question about the location of the next summit between the American and Russian presidents.

HuffPost reporter S.V. Date, the outlet's senior White House correspondent, asked aides why President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are planning to meet in Budapest, Hungary, for their next summit. Trump announced the summit on Thursday, telling reporters in the Oval Office that Hungarian President and Putin ally Viktor Orban is going to "host" the meeting.

Dale asked who chose the venue for the meeting. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt replied, "Your mom did." White House Communications Director Steven Cheung added, "Your mom."



https://www.rawstory.com/white-house-2674207229/
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Are they serious? Is this really an answer given by the press secretary of a U.S. president?! (Original Post) D. Spaulding Oct 2025 OP
Children are in charge of the country... wcmagumba Oct 2025 #1
Learn from pentagon reporters. usonian Oct 2025 #2
They make Beavies and Butthead sound mature. Dave Bowman Oct 2025 #3
seriously......this is like a Borowowitz or Onion report Shellback Squid Oct 2025 #4
They have run out of quips that make them sound like adults, so they're Baitball Blogger Oct 2025 #5
Childish is the word IbogaProject Oct 2025 #6
What is going on angrychair Oct 2025 #7

wcmagumba

(6,633 posts)
1. Children are in charge of the country...
Fri Oct 17, 2025, 12:11 AM
Oct 2025

I am rubber you are glue, or maybe just nah nah nah nah boo boo...
It is just embarrassing...

usonian

(26,591 posts)
2. Learn from pentagon reporters.
Fri Oct 17, 2025, 12:20 AM
Oct 2025

JUST IGNORE THE CLOWNS.

To me, that is the best way to deal with their shitshow.

Besides mockery.

🐸 Send in the frogs. 🐸

Baitball Blogger

(52,719 posts)
5. They have run out of quips that make them sound like adults, so they're
Fri Oct 17, 2025, 12:54 AM
Oct 2025

resorting to the ones that expose them as children.

angrychair

(12,501 posts)
7. What is going on
Fri Oct 17, 2025, 01:54 AM
Oct 2025

This is incredibly disconcerting. This should worry us more than I think it is right now. They didn't give a shit anymore. There has to be a reason.

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