Just weeks after the White House — and the president himself — blamed a staffer for a blatantly racist post that appeared on his Truth Social account, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt assured reporters that anything on Trump’s social media site is “straight from the horse’s mouth.”
Leavitt made the startling admission during a press briefing on Wednesday in response to a question about a message Trump had posted moments earlier on the social media site where he criticized plans for a U.K. land deal. The president’s afternoon missive was the latest in a series of abrupt and largely inexplicable reversals regarding the British government’s decision to cede control of the Chagos Islands and came just weeks after Trump had walked back previous criticism of the deal by describing the agreement as “the best” the Labour leader could strike.
