Karoline Leavitt tries to quell fury after calling young people lazy
She attributed this to “laziness and the liberal indoctrination,” while endorsing Watters’ proposal to make young people who “misbehave” join the Army.
“Or send them to Cuba, send them to Iran!” she said with glee.
Had the backlash to these comments been confined to liberals, Leavitt likely would have taken things in stride. But even conservatives were alarmed at how cruel and out of touch she sounded.
On Sunday, she posted on X that “bad faith actors” were taking her comments out of context, while doubling down on her contention that laziness is a scourge plaguing young people.
But the post did little to quiet her critics. And if the personal jabs from MAGA influencers citing Leavitt’s marriage to a wealthy real estate investor three decades her senior are any sign, she and the administration have a lot of work to do to improve their image in the eyes of young people — in the Republican Party and beyond.
