US EditionWhite House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt shares texts with reporter after viral ‘your mom did’ exchange
- On 10/21/2025, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt went viral after HuffPost revealed her Monday text reply `Your mom did` to HuffPost correspondent S.V. D�te's question.
- The exchange began when a reporter questioned the president's choice of meeting site with Vladimir Putin, referencing HuffPost's S.V. D�te asking whether the president recognizes Budapest's 1994 security pledge to Ukraine and why Ukraine might object to that site.
- In a public thread on X, HuffPost's S.V. D�te responded with a lengthy thread defending his work and alleging `Trump is not 'conservative' or 'liberal' or any of that. He is a conman and, now, a criminal`,
- White House Communications Director Steven Cheung echoed Leavitt by answering with "Your mom," and Pentagon spokespeople defended Pete Hegseth with crude replies while users on X criticized Leavitt as juvenile.
- Critics warn that the exchange of personal attacks risks normalizing ad hominem tactics, noting Karoline Leavitt called S.V. D�te a 'far left hack' and not a journalist interested in facts.
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Karoline Leavitt Dragged For Laughably Juvenile Text Reply To Journalist's Question
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was criticized after she shared a text exchange she'd had with Huffington Post reporter S.V. Dáte in which she gave a laughably juvenile response to his question about who chose Budapest for President Donald Trump's now-canceled meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.Trump announced last week that he and Putin planned to meet in Budapest within two weeks to discuss the war in Ukraine. A prepara…
How does a Trump spokesman react to a critical question of journalists? With an insult that says a lot about conversational culture.
A simple text message from the journalist S.V. Dáte about a possible Trump-Putine meeting in Budapest triggered a sharp altercation with the White House spokesman, Karoline Leavitt. ...
A "Huffington Post" journalist asks Karoline Leavitt who has chosen Budapest as the venue for the Trump-Putin meeting. The answer to the "left-hand writer" follows promptly.
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