Karoline Leavitt, the former Trump White House Deputy Press Secretary, didn’t mince words during a fiery segment on Jesse Watters Primetime—tearing into former Biden press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre’s recent media blitz and her attempt to rewrite history in a new memoir.
Jean-Pierre, now busy promoting her book on liberal talk shows, recently branded Leavitt “deplorable” for criticizing the modern Democratic Party. But if she thought that jab would go unanswered, she clearly underestimated her successor.
“With all due respect to my predecessor, she is one of the main culprits of the greatest cover-up and scandals in American history,” Leavitt shot back, calling out Jean-Pierre’s role in shielding Biden’s deteriorating mental fitness from the public. “She took the podium every day and lied to the press about the incompetence of her boss. And on this book tour, she continues to lie.”
Jean-Pierre claims in her memoir that she “saw no such decline” in President Biden’s cognitive health, despite being part of his “inner circle” and seeing him daily. Leavitt wasn’t buying it.
“She continues to gaslight the American people,” Leavitt argued, adding that the press and the public were “gaslit” throughout Biden’s presidency into believing he was “mentally stable and up for the job.” Behind closed doors, concerns about Biden’s fitness were rampant—something even Democratic insiders and media figures have begun to admit, albeit belatedly.
Leavitt’s defense of her current boss, President Trump, couldn’t have been clearer: “I’m very proud to work for the greatest president in history. I know Karine unfortunately worked for the most incompetent president in history,” she said bluntly. “So I guess she has a reason to be bitter. But being bitter will not sell your books.”
Jean-Pierre’s media tour has focused less on substance and more on lobbing attacks—particularly over Leavitt’s takedown of leftist priorities. On The View, Jean-Pierre clutched her pearls over Leavitt’s recent remark that the Democrat Party’s core constituency consists of “Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals.”
KJP gets a dressing down from Trump spox. “Being bitter will not sell you books!” pic.twitter.com/4EZcjKDf4y
— thedailybs w/ Snerdley (@thedailybs_Bo) October 22, 2025
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Calling the statement “deplorable”—a not-so-subtle callback to Hillary Clinton’s infamous 2016 gaffe—Jean-Pierre insisted, “They don’t seem to understand, this is the Trump White House, that they don’t work for just one man. They work for the American people.”
That sanctimonious comment didn’t age well, considering Jean-Pierre spent her tenure dodging basic questions, repeating canned talking points, and treating journalists more like adversaries than the American people’s proxies.
Jean-Pierre even found time to gripe about a text exchange Leavitt had with a HuffPost reporter. Instead of replying to a request for comment, Leavitt cheekily responded with a “your mom” joke—something Jean-Pierre huffed was beneath the dignity of the office.
“The White House press secretary is not about doing online trolling,” she scolded. “It is an honor and a privilege to have that job and to speak on behalf of the most powerful person in the world.”
Maybe so—but dignity starts with honesty, and Leavitt’s central point still stands: Karine Jean-Pierre was the face of a failing administration, tasked with spinning Biden’s cognitive decline into political gold. Now, she’s trying to cash in on it in hardcover.
KJP gets a dressing down from Trump spox. “Being bitter will not sell you books!” pic.twitter.com/4EZcjKDf4y
— thedailybs w/ Snerdley (@thedailybs_Bo) October 22, 2025
