Some compared the White House press secretary to North Korean state media.
Critics are urging White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt to brush up on history after she went a little too far with her over-the-top praise of President Donald Trump’s bombing campaign in Iran.
“No other president in history could have ever dreamed of such a success,” she said of the operation during a Fox News interview.
Her critics on social media noted that U.S. presidents have seen success in the Civil War, World War I and World War II, to name a few.
Trump has claimed that Iran’s nuclear capabilities were “completely and totally obliterated” in the weekend attack carried out by U.S. B-2 bombers. However, a U.S. intelligence assessment leaked to several media outlets reportedly takes a more measured tone, saying the attack may have only set Iran’s nuclear program back by as little as a few months.
Trump on Wednesday called the media outlets that reported the story “scum.”
Leavitt took a similar approach, calling the media “fake news” and accusing the press of “trying to demean and undermine the president.”
Leavitt blamed “hostile actors within the intelligence community” for leaking “bits and pieces” of a report to “push a fake news narrative” to make Trump look bad.
“President Trump completely and totally obliterated the capability of Iran to produce a nuclear weapon, and the world is safer today because of his historic efforts,” she insisted.
But it’s her claim that “no other president in history could have ever dreamed of such a success” that got her critics fired up. Some offered reminders of just what that history has included, while others compared Leavitt to North Korea’s state-run media.
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