White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has sparked a fierce reaction after calling Gen Z lazy and suggesting they should be sent to Cuba or Iran, despite being a member of the generation herself.
Karoline Leavitt, 28, made the comments during an appearance on Fox News with Jesse Watters just days after returning from maternity leave following the birth of her second child.
Host Watters opened the segment by suggesting that young people complaining about the cost of living had never had real jobs. Leavitt was happy to agree.
“This generation, my generation, Gen Z and those younger than me, have been raised with just silver spoons in their mouths,” she said.
“Just getting everything handed to them, that’s not the values this country was built on.”
She attributed what she called a lack of work ethic to laziness and liberal indoctrination, before delivering her most pointed line of the interview.
“Send them to Cuba. Send them to Iran. They’ll want to come back real quick,” she said.
Comment met with instant backlash
The comments drew immediate pushback online, with many pointing out the irony of a 27-year-old, who is herself part of Gen Z, lecturing her own generation about having things handed to them.
Others noted that Leavitt has spent most of her adult life working in politics and media rather than what Watters described as a “real job.”
“Does she work for Kentucky Fried Chicken on the side?” someone commented.
“Karoline, is your spoon a tablespoon or a ladle?” one commenter asked, with another chiming in: “it is a shovel!”
The interview came the same week Leavitt found herself at the center of another story after posting photos from the inaugural flight of Trump’s new Air Force One.
Eagle-eyed social media users spotted a bookshelf on the jet in which every book appeared to have the word “Library” printed on the spine with no title, author or publisher visible.
One user on X wrote: “Of course a plane full of people who have never read a book has a bookshelf of fake books with titles like ‘Library.'”
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