Overview
- The White House press secretary published a screenshot showing she replied "Your mom did" when HuffPost’s S.V. Dáte asked who suggested Budapest for the planned Trump–Putin talks.
- Leavitt labeled Dáte “a far left hack” and told him to stop sending “disingenuous, biased, and bullsh*t questions,” asserting he pushes Democratic talking points.
- Dáte publicly responded by again requesting a substantive answer about the meeting location.
- Another White House spokesman, Steven Cheung, used a similar "your mom" joke in exchanges with reporters, reflecting the administration’s combative tone toward the press.
- Reporting indicates the meeting is expected to take place in Budapest with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán as host, a choice seen as sensitive because Russia signed the Budapest Memorandum there.