Karoline Leavitt is not here to play games, and she made that crystal clear during Wednesday’s White House briefing when she flat-out shut down CNN’s Kaitlan Collins like a schoolteacher cutting off a noisy student mid-rant. The viral moment had conservatives cheering and the liberal press seething — which is usually a good sign that something right happened.
The scene unfolded as Collins, still clinging to The Atlantic’s now-laughable “war plans on Signal” story, tried to squeeze a follow-up out of Leavitt. Clearly annoyed by being asked the same question three times — because apparently, repetition counts as journalism these days — Leavitt cut her off cold: “I’m not taking your follow-up.”
Karoline Leavitt refused a good follow up question from Kaitlan Collins.
Leavitt is as rude as her boss and it’s also crystal clear she knows she is full of shit.
— CALL TO ACTIVISM (@CalltoActivism) March 26, 2025
Savage. Clean. Necessary.
Now, let’s back up and talk about this so-called scandal. Over the weekend, Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief and full-time Trump-hater, claimed he was accidentally added to a Signal group chat with Trump officials like J.D. Vance, Mike Waltz, and Pete Hegseth. According to Goldberg, this chat was basically a digital war room, complete with “classified war plans” related to Houthi targets in Yemen.
Naturally, the media went bananas.
But like every overhyped anti-Trump hit piece before it — from “Russia collusion” to “inject bleach” — this one fell apart fast. The full Signal thread was released, and guess what? No classified intel. No sources or methods. No operational secrets. Just chatter about what everyone in D.C. already knew: strikes were imminent, and foreign allies had been informed.
Leavitt torched the narrative, calling Goldberg’s reporting “sensationalist spin.” And surprise, surprise — The Atlantic quietly edited its original headline from “Here Are the War Plans…” to a watered-down version: “Here Are the Attack Plans…” Big difference, huh?
President Trump dismissed the whole thing as typical Goldberg garbage, praising his team and brushing it off as a “glitch.” Defense Secretary Hegseth said it plainly: “No classified material was shared.” Period. End of story. Not that the media will stop running with it — because fake outrage is their favorite exercise.
Steven Cheung, Trump’s comms director, nailed it: “From the ‘Russia, Russia, Russia’ hoax to the fake documents case… anti-Trump forces have tried to weaponize innocuous actions and turn them into faux outrage.”
Even Senator Tom Cotton got in on the truth-telling, pointing out that Biden’s own administration has previously endorsed Signal as a secure, compliant platform. But now, because Trump people used it? Suddenly it’s a national security crisis?
Give me a break.
Leavitt’s moment wasn’t just viral — it was the sound of the GOP finally putting the regime media in its place. About time.
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