'Trump lost his temper': Karoline Leavitt ripped by Fox News host over Zelensky clash

White House Press Secretary Karoline faced backlash from Fox News host Howard Kurtz after she defended President Donald Trump's recent ambush of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House.

During his Sunday morning Media Buzz program, the Fox News host described Zelensky as "irritating" but added: "It also seemed like President Trump lost his temper."

"I would disagree with that," Leavitt replied. "I think what happened in the Oval Office, I was there, was unfortunately President Zelensky came in with a mindset not wanting to negotiate peace."

"President Zelensky was also antagonistic, and frankly, he was rude," she continued. "He picked a fight with the Vice President of the United States. He repeatedly interrupted President Trump, and so what President Trump did was stood strong for America, defended his Vice President, but most importantly, defended the American people who, after three years of funding this brutal war, are sick and tired of footing the bill."

"It was clear President Zelensky wasn't in the mindset to negotiate that just yet."

Kurz pushed back: "President kicked him out without the expected agreement about rare minerals, and President Zelensky kept saying he needed security agreements, security because Vladimir Putin had a long history of breaking agreements, so wasn't that a reasonable point for him to make?"

"Well, that's not what this meeting was about, and President Zelensky was told that ahead of time," Leavitt said despite also claiming the Ukrainian president was not ready to negotiate. "This meeting was about signing an economic partnership between the United States of America and Ukraine."

"His country's at war!" Kurtz exclaimed.

"Well, our teams are engaged in active negotiations, and nobody wants to end that war more than President Trump," Leavitt asserted.

"Yeah, I would just say a ceasefire might leave all the Russian land gains intact," Kurtz observed. "I've never seen anything like it, would have happened behind closed doors. So why hold the meeting in front of the cameras?"

"Because President Trump is the most transparent president in history, and as he said, it was great for the cameras to be in there," Leavitt insisted.

Comment by Inspectorgadget4250 at 02/03/2025 at 21:47 UTC*

35 upvotes, 2 direct replies

Transparency my ass. He's a demented power monger who thinks he's still playing a game on TV...except the outcome of this 'game' is true reality for the entire United States

Comment by 66pig at 02/03/2025 at 21:53 UTC

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President zelensky meets king charles not wearing a suit and no one gives a fuck

Comment by anOvenofWitches at 02/03/2025 at 22:05 UTC

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She’s gross. 27 years old and married to a 60 year old. Gross all around. Yes I’m judging

Comment by DesignerAd9 at 02/03/2025 at 21:33 UTC

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Leavitt's kinda like the female Stephen Miller. Talk so fast no one can get a word it. Due to how Zelensky was treated by what's his face, Norway will no longer allow US Navy ships to refuel in their country.

Comment by alaninnz at 02/03/2025 at 22:02 UTC

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It's amazing how she adamantly defends her boss when the world is watching and sees the whole incident.

Like the classified documents he had in his bathroom, WE ALL SAW IT.

Don't believe your lying eyes 👀

Comment by coreychch at 02/03/2025 at 22:03 UTC

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Kurz pushed back: “President kicked him out without the expected agreement about rare minerals, and President Zelensky kept saying he needed security agreements, security because Vladimir Putin had a long history of breaking agreements, so wasn’t that a reasonable point for him to make?”

“Well, that’s not what this meeting was about, and President Zelensky was told that ahead of time,” Leavitt said despite also claiming the Ukrainian president was not ready to negotiate.

Not what this meeting was about? So just sign on the dotted line, huh? And trust old Putin’s going to keep his word? Yeah right …

Comment by Journeys_End71 at 02/03/2025 at 22:05 UTC

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Good thing we refuse to elect women as Presidents because they have trouble controlling their emotions. 🙄

Comment by Dozerdog43 at 02/03/2025 at 21:31 UTC

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He will invade Mexico now in the name of curtailing drugs to make him look like “Good guy strong man”

Comment by SeriousAllegations at 02/03/2025 at 21:13 UTC

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More delusion

Comment by Ok-Tumbleweed960 at 02/03/2025 at 22:10 UTC

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She dumb

Comment by Full_Boysenberry_198 at 02/03/2025 at 22:17 UTC

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One of the more qualified hires of Trump in that she has a lot of practice putting lipstick on a pig.

Comment by Own-Opinion-2494 at 02/03/2025 at 22:33 UTC

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That “Russian Journalist” getting so close to them scared them. Putin was showing th how close he could get without anybody doing g anything g about it.

Comment by Txsaintfan at 03/03/2025 at 01:54 UTC

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The only reason this “negotiation” was covered by the press was so Trump could show he’s the man. The tough guy. In charge.

Assholes. He and that wormy Vance.

Total fucking embarrassment!

Comment by Peanutblitz at 03/03/2025 at 01:58 UTC

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I mean, “Ripped” is a pretty gross mischaracterization. He lightly barely suggested Trump was out of line and didn’t challenge Frau Leavitt’s ridiculous justifications at all.

Comment by iamsooldithurts at 02/03/2025 at 22:28 UTC

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What the hell? Where is the article does it describe her getting ripped? Sounds more like a script to help bring around conservatives who might be on the fence, give them arguments and rationalizations for why Trump is the hero here. Jebus, everyone is falling for it.

Comment by ThatGuy_S at 03/03/2025 at 00:31 UTC

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Spin spin lie. We have all seen the actual video.

Comment by DaveP0953 at 02/03/2025 at 22:53 UTC

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What complete and utter nonsense. I almost wishSaree Sandirtdaders was back. 🤦‍♂️

Comment by Suspicious_Bend9419 at 02/03/2025 at 23:13 UTC

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Think it’s strange that Russian news was there also but our own ap is not allowed

Comment by MeMilo1209 at 02/03/2025 at 23:31 UTC

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She's a valueless clown.

Comment by Appropriate_Cause173 at 03/03/2025 at 00:34 UTC

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It was a band of thugs squeezing the new kid at the playground for his lunch money. The kid walked away!