Overview

• During a late-night gaggle on Air Force One after the Egypt summit, President Trump asked reporters about Karoline Leavitt’s performance before saying, “That face … those lips — they move like a machine gun.”
• The comment reprised language he used in an August Newsmax interview in which he hailed Leavitt and described her lips as moving “like she’s a machine gun.”
• Leavitt, 28 and widely identified as the youngest White House press secretary, was present and posted about the gaggle as reporters including Dasha Burns and Katie Pavlich joined the exchange.
• Video of the moment circulated widely, with many users and outlets labeling the remark inappropriate, while conservative media defended it as a compliment.
• Coverage situated the incident within Trump’s history of remarks about women’s appearances, noting his recent description of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni as “beautiful,” and there was no indication of any internal White House action in response.