The Trump administration is keeping up the pressure on the Mexican government after assisting in the operation that killed a major drug cartel kingpin over the weekend.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Tuesday that the Trump administration is &#8220;pushing&#8221; Mexico to take stronger action to curb the flow of illicit drugs into the United States.
&#8220;We are coordinating and cooperating and pushing the Mexican government to do more to end the scourge of deadly drugs coming through our United States Southern border, which of course is now secure thanks to President Trump as well,&#8221; Leavitt said during a Fox News appearance.
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Leavitt said the Sunday strike that took out longtime Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) leader Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes during an operation in the southwestern town of Tapalpa, Jalisco, &#8220;would not have happened without the leadership of President Trump.&#8221;
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&#8220;He has made it a day one priority to target and go after these vicious drug cartels that have shipped deadly poison to our country for far too long,&#8221; Leavitt said, citing President Donald Trump&#8217;s decision to designate some of Mexico&#8217;s most notorious cartels as terrorist organizations and the administration&#8217;s dozens of military strikes on drug boats in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific.
Following Sunday&#8217;s operation, cartel members set buses and cars ablaze and erected roadblocks in some of the most popular vacation spots frequented by American tourists.
The State Department <a href="https://x.com/TravelGov/status/2025636042007605353" target="_blank" rel="noopener">urged</a> American citizens to “shelter in place” if they are in the Mexican state of Jalisco — including Puerto Vallarta, Chapala, and Guadalajara — as well as in Tamaulipas, which borders Texas, parts of Michoacán, Guerrero, and Nuevo León.
American and Canadian airlines quickly canceled flights out of Puerto Vallarta and Guadalajara, leaving tourists stranded.
American tourist Jim Beck, who said he has been going to Puerto Vallarta “for almost twenty years,” <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@cnn/video/7609924460602313997?q=puerto%20vallarta&amp;t=1771858884471" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> CNN that it’s the first time he’s been “actually terrified” while visiting the area.
“We saw people running down the streets, running from the flames and stuff and the fire. And we ran back to the hotel and then that’s when they got the shelter in order place and we’ve been here all day,” Beck said.
“It’s been pretty scary … all the locals being locked up and hidden with us too, there’s a few homeless people that were brought into this hotel … so that they had some place to go too. It’s been quite surreal knowing this warm, wonderful place that we come to visit a couple times a year is in lockdown and just terrifying for all the people,” he said.
Leavitt said the Trump administration is &#8220;unaware of any reports of any Americans being hurt, kidnapped, or killed,&#8221; adding, &#8220;The Mexican drug cartels know not to lay a finger on a single American or they will pay severe consequences under this president.&#8221;
The State Department has also set up &#8220;24/7 phone lines&#8221; to help Americans who are stranded in Mexico, Leavitt said.

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A CBS News reporter set off a heated exchange during a Wednesday briefing when he challenged White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt to prove President Donald Trump&#8217;s claims that he has been falsely called &#8220;racist.&#8221;
CBS Senior White House Correspondent Ed O’Keefe referenced the late Reverend Jesse Jackson — whose passing was announced on Tuesday — and said, “Yesterday in his statement about Jesse Jackson the President said ‘Despite the fact that I am falsely and consistently called a racist by the scoundrels and lunatics on the radical left, democrats all, it was always my pleasure to help Jesse along the way’ where or when does the President believe he’s been falsely called racist?”
Leavitt did not attempt to conceal her shock: “You’re kidding right?&#8221;
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Seriously dude? Lefty reporter gets laughed at after he asks if Karoline Leavitt has any examples of the media calling President Trump racist.
Leavitt: &#8220;You&#8217;re kidding, right?&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/2unmwVXQVY">pic.twitter.com/2unmwVXQVY</a>
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&#8220;You’re kidding right? I will pull you a plethora of examples,&#8221; the press secretary promised. &#8220;I will get my team in that room to start going through the internet of radical Democrats throughout the years, Ed, who have accused this President falsely of being a racist. And I’m sure there’s many people in this room and on network television across the country who have accused him of the same. In fact, I know that because I’ve seen it with my own eyes.”
Leavitt went on to say that the President has been looking forward to having an event later that same afternoon to celebrate Black History Month as well as to “advancing opportunity and prosperity for all Americans,” such as the Trump Accounts, “which all Americans can access, regardless of race.”
Fifteen minutes later, the White House Rapid Response X account <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47">pulled</a> a video of Don Lemon anchoring a CNN broadcast. He opened his monologue with, “This is CNN Tonight. I’m Don Lemon. The President of the United States is racist. A lot of us already knew that.”
The White House has continued to update the platform with additional examples.

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CNN&#8217;s Kaitlan Collins may often find herself at odds with President Donald Trump, but during a recent interview, she conceded that it was White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt who stepped in to defend her rights as a journalist.
Collins explained the situation to &#8220;Absolutely Not&#8221; podcast host Heather McMahan, which unfolded when Collins traveled with the president to Saudi Arabia. She explained that the Saudi Royal Guard attempted to bar her from attending an event with Trump, and Leavitt lobbied for her to be allowed in the room.
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“The Saudi Royal Guard freaked out because I dared to ask a question … and said, you can&#8217;t come into the next event … Karoline, to her credit said, no Kaitlan&#8217;s coming in with the rest of the U.S.… <a href="https://t.co/uhB9al4GVX">pic.twitter.com/uhB9al4GVX</a>
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&#8220;When we were in Saudi Arabia, we were on a foreign trip with the president, and [Trump] came in with all the other leaders, including the Saudi Crown Prince,&#8221; Collins said, setting the scene for McMahan. &#8220;They famously do not like the media there, to put it lightly.&#8221;
&#8220;[I] shouted a question to President Trump, who had seen me when the U.S. press came in,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;He didn&#8217;t answer, which is, I mean, that&#8217;s how it works: you shout questions, they either answer or they don&#8217;t, it&#8217;s their prerogative. And then the world leaders left the room.&#8221;
That, Collins said, was when things started to get sticky for her. The Saudi Royal Guard, unaccustomed to reporters being allowed to shout questions at their leaders, attempted to bar her from entering the room ahead of the next event.
&#8220;The Saudi Royal Guard kind of freaked out because I dared to ask a question, and they&#8217;re not used to that there because they don&#8217;t have a free press,&#8221; she explained. &#8220;And so they came up, and they said, &#8216;Okay, well, you can&#8217;t come into the next event,&#8217; which was like two minutes later.&#8221;
Collins said she attempted to explain &#8220;that&#8217;s not how this works,&#8221; but gained little ground with the Royal Guard.
&#8220;I could see them whispering and pointing about me,&#8221; she added. &#8220;Some of the younger White House press weren&#8217;t really sure what to do, and they went to Karoline. And, to her credit, she said, &#8216;No, Kaitlan&#8217;s coming in with the rest of the U.S. press&#8217; &#8230; which I do think is important, in that moment.&#8221;
Collins noted that similar incidents had happened on foreign trips before, such as when President Trump visited the DMZ and met with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un.

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Trump Foe Kaitlan Collins Recalls Time Karoline Leavitt Defended Her From Saudis

Regular CNN Trump Foil Admits Karoline Leavitt Defended Her Rights As Journalist

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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Thursday highlighted new crime statistics showing a historic drop in violent crime nationwide, arguing the data vindicates President Donald Trump’s law-and-order agenda just one year into his return to office.
Citing figures compiled by the Council on Criminal Justice, Leavitt said the national murder rate fell in 2025 to its lowest level since 1900, a decline she credited to expanded federal law enforcement activity, border security, and the administration’s focus on removing violent criminal illegal aliens from American communities.
“This dramatic decline is what happens when a president secures the border, fully mobilizes federal law enforcement to arrest violent criminals, and aggressively deports the worst of the worst illegal aliens from our country,” Leavitt said during Thursday’s press briefing. “The numbers don’t lie.”
Leavitt pointed to a sharp increase in federal arrests under the Trump administration, saying the FBI doubled its violent crime arrests in 2025 compared to the previous year. She said more than 67,000 arrests have been made since Trump’s inauguration, which the administration says represents a 197% increase over the same time period under the Biden administration.
According to Leavitt, the FBI has also significantly expanded its operations against organized crime, disrupting 1,800 gangs and criminal enterprises nationwide, a 210% increase from the year prior. “The FBI has arrested 1,700 child predators and more than 300 human traffickers across the country,” Leavitt said. “Since President Trump took office, six of the FBI’s Top 10 Most Wanted Fugitives have been captured right here in our nation’s capital.”
Leavitt further highlighted crime reductions in Washington, D.C., following Trump’s decision last summer to nationalize the city’s police force and deploy hundreds of federal agents and National Guard troops to the district. While the move drew fierce criticism from Democrats and civil liberties groups at the time, the administration now says the results speak for themselves.
“As of last week, D.C. homicides were down 62%,” Leavitt said. She added that motor vehicle theft had dropped by 53% and that 2025 recorded the fewest violent gun crimes of any year in available data for the nation’s capital. More than 2,000 arrests have been made since the federal takeover, Leavitt said, noting that National Guard members remain deployed in the city as part of the administration’s continued crime suppression efforts.
The Trump administration has pursued similar enforcement strategies in other major cities, including Memphis, Tennessee, where federal agents and National Guard troops were deployed with the support of state and local officials.
Leavitt said nearly 5,600 arrests have been made in Memphis since the deployment began. “As of last week, aggravated assaults are down 53%, sexual assaults are down 53%, and robberies are down 70%,” she said.
Leavitt framed the administration’s broader crime strategy as inseparable from its immigration enforcement priorities, emphasizing the removal of criminal illegal aliens as a central pillar of public safety policy. The administration has repeatedly described its enforcement focus as targeting “the worst of the worst” offenders, deploying federal resources to cities where local leadership has struggled to contain violent crime.
While Democrats have accused Trump of overreach and politicizing federal law enforcement, the White House has leaned heavily into the crime statistics as evidence that its approach is working, particularly in cities long governed by left-wing leadership. Leavitt said the administration intends to continue expanding federal law enforcement operations in high-crime areas. 
“This is what tough, unapologetic law enforcement looks like,” she said. “And it’s saving lives.”
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Leavitt Highlights Historic Crime Decline As Murder Rate Hits Lowest Level Since 1900

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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt did not hold back on celebrities who publicly disparage ICE agents enforcing immigration law, noting how they are often the worst sorts of hypocrites.
“It&#8217;s very ironic and, frankly, sad to see celebrities who live in gated communities with private security, with millions of dollars to spend protecting themselves, trying to just demonize law enforcement public servants who work for the U.S. government to enforce our nation&#8217;s laws,” she said on Tuesday.
“You didn&#8217;t hear this same type of uproar from celebrities in Hollywood when the previous administration allowed an invasion of our nation&#8217;s borders, and allowed innocent women and girls like Jocelyn Nungaray and Laken Riley to be killed, raped, and murdered at the hands of people who should&#8217;ve never been in our country in the first place,&#8221; Leavitt added. 
She said law enforcement is just “trying to do their jobs” and noted how celebrities were silent when these innocent people were murdered. “I think that speaks to the unfortunate irony,” Leavitt added.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/PressSec?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PressSec</a>: &#8220;It&#8217;s very ironic and, frankly, sad to see celebrities who live in gated communities with private security, with millions of dollars to spend protecting themselves, trying to just demonize law enforcement public servants who work for the U.S. government to enforce our… <a href="https://t.co/PZqnA6nS9V">pic.twitter.com/PZqnA6nS9V</a>
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Her comments come days after celebrities were out in force at the Grammys wearing ICE OUT and BE GOOD pins to protest ICE operations. Several attendees also commented on the situation from the stage and the red carpet.
Justin Bieber and his wife, Hailey Bieber, sported the buttons, as did Billie Eilish, Kehlani, Samara Joy, Joni Mitchell, and Jack Antonoff.
Puerto Rican artist Bad Bunny, who will be performing at this year&#8217;s Super Bowl halftime show, devoted his Grammy acceptance speech to protesting ICE enforcing immigration laws.  
“Before I say thanks to God, I’m going to say: ICE out,” the singer, whose legal name is Benito Ocasio, said from the stage during the awards ceremony Sunday night. The crowd of celebrities responded with thunderous applause. “We are not savage. We are not animals. We are not aliens. We are humans, and we are American,” he added.
It wasn’t just the Grammys, either. At Sundance Film Festival last month, “Don’t Worry Darling” actress Olivia Wilde suggested that ICE is a criminal organization.
“We can’t go another day accepting this as our new norm. It’s outrageous. People are being murdered, and I don’t want to normalize seeing that violence—on the internet or on film. It’s hideous. If we can do anything to support the movement to cast ICE out and delegitimize this criminal organization, then that’s what we should be doing,” she <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/celebrity/articles/olivia-wilde-natalie-portman-criticize-161351146.html?guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZGFpbHl3aXJlLmNvbS9uZXdzL3RoZS1sZWZ0cy1wZXJmb3JtYXRpdmUtb3V0cmFnZQ&amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAHb4SQlShleWpLv5AcMo-Gkg7Mu8np1GqfAMtJFlRfllLvNjab03YdfxW7974iy_CXfIVg9doush6JZxFZucTeiasW1edUnlP6Uo1KLLxINyvHY2F4AFfXW69nHiYrwYBwJNaKZ0cEEW-DMvuyFVEGFTtPLXmdw13dxLFA3R52vk&amp;guccounter=2">said</a> at the time.
“Game of Thrones” actor Peter Dinklage <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/game-of-thrones-actor-recites-cringeworthy-poem-dedicated-to-anti-ice-activist-renee-good?author=Amanda+Harding&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=%E2%80%98Game+of+Thrones%E2%80%99+Actor+Recites+Cringeworthy+Poem+Dedicated+To+Anti-ICE+Activist+Renee+Good">recited</a> an extremely cringeworthy poem dedicated to Renee Good, the anti-ICE activist killed by an ICE agent during an altercation in Minneapolis. Singer Bruce Springsteen released a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bruce-springsteen-releases-cringe-protest-song-about-minneapolis?author=Amanda+Harding&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Bruce+Springsteen+Releases+Cringe+Protest+Song+About+Minneapolis">protest song</a> last month, which included the lyric, “ICE out of Minneapolis.”

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White House Press Secretary Blasts Anti-ICE Celebs: 'Very Ironic'

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Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo has revoked the license of a nurse who wished childbirth injuries on White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.
State Attorney General James Uthmeier (R-FL) announced the move to strip Lexie Lawler of her Florida state nursing license in a post on X on Wednesday, praising Ladapo for taking such a &#8220;decisive action&#8221; and ensuring that those who wish harm on others — particularly those who work in fields like health care — face consequences for doing so.
&#8220;Effective today, Lexie Lawler is no longer allowed to practice nursing in Florida. Making statements that wish pain and suffering on anyone, when those statements are directly related to one&#8217;s practice, is an ethical red line we should not cross,&#8221; Uthmeier <a href="https://x.com/AGJamesUthmeier/status/2016551568779202738">posted</a>.
After learning one day earlier that Lawler had been fired for her statements directed at Leavitt, Uthmeier had <a href="https://x.com/AGJamesUthmeier/status/2016244226757972192">argued</a> that simply the loss of her job was not adequate: &#8220;Being fired isn’t good enough. Any healthcare worker who fails to uphold his or her obligation to provide adequate, safe healthcare should not be licensed in Florida. No excuses!&#8221;
Uthmeier issued a similar statement to Fox News Digital, saying, &#8220;Women shouldn’t have to worry about a politically driven nurse who wishes them pain and suffering being in the delivery room during childbirth. It’s evil. The Florida Board of Nursing must take action to keep this person away from patients permanently.&#8221;
Lawler&#8217;s original TikTok video went viral — with a little help from Libs of TikTok — prompting backlash as she expressed her sincere wish for Leavitt to suffer permanent damage from a difficult delivery.
&#8220;As a labor and delivery nurse, it gives me great joy to wish Karoline Leavitt a fourth degree tear,&#8221; she said, adding, &#8220;I hope you f*cking rip from bow to stern and never sh*t normally again, you c*nt.&#8221;
A fourth-degree tear is the most severe type of obstetric tear and includes lacerations that extend through the perineal muscles into the rectal lining. Such tears require surgery to repair and six to eight weeks of recovery time — and only 60% to 80% of women will fully recover with no further complications.
A short time after the video went viral, Baptist Health confirmed that Lawler had been let go from her job, releasing the following statement to Boca Raton <a href="https://cbs12.com/news/local/boca-raton-nurse-fired-after-graphic-tiktok-targeting-pregnant-white-house-official-karoline-leavitt-white-house-press-secretary-karoline-leavitt-baptist-health-boca-raton-regional-hospital-january-23-2026">CBS affiliate</a> 12 News: &#8220;The comments made in a social media video by a nurse at one of our facilities do not reflect our values or the standards we expect of health care professionals. Following a prompt review, the individual is no longer employed by our health system.&#8221;

Media Briefing Held By White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt

Florida Nurse Loses License After Wishing Harm On Karoline Leavitt During Childbirth

Florida Surgeon General Revokes License Of Nurse Who Wished Childbirth Injuries On Karoline Leavitt

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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Monday torched elected Democrats in Minnesota for stoking unrest that has contributed to the shooting deaths of two Americans by federal immigration authorities.
Leavitt <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/2015856478154850595">blamed</a> Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey for “spreading lies about federal law enforcement officers who are risking their lives daily to remove the worst criminal illegal aliens from our streets: murderers, rapists, pedophiles, human traffickers, and gang members.”
Walz and Frey have been outspoken critics of federal immigration operations in the Twin Cities area. Frey has <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/wave-car-attacks-ice-agents-follows-incendiary-rhetoric-from-target-city-leaders">accused</a> ICE of “terrorizing our communities,” while Walz has repeatedly compared federal immigration enforcement to Nazis. On Sunday, Walz compared the state of illegal aliens in Minnesota to that of Anne Frank, a Jewish girl who hid from the Nazi regime in an attic for over two years before dying in a concentration camp during the Holocaust.
“Such dangerous rhetoric, as I pointed out, is exactly what has brought us to this position today, where you have elected Democrat officials across the country who are encouraging left-wing agitators and crazy people to go out and unlawfully obstruct lawful immigration enforcement,” <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/2015857172874236233">said</a> Leavitt.
“This rhetoric against ICE, comparing them to Nazi Gestapo, Donald Trump&#8217;s police force, is despicable, it is shameful, and it is precisely what has led to the escalation of tensions in Minneapolis and in other places across the country,” she added.
Tensions in Minneapolis have exploded following two immigration enforcement-involved shootings. A Customs and Border Protection agent over the weekend shot and killed Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse at a VA hospital, who was allegedly interfering with immigration operations in the city. Pretti’s death came just weeks after Renee Good was shot and killed in her vehicle after appearing to drive in the direction of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Minneapolis.
President Donald Trump and Walz took a step toward ratcheting down tensions on Monday. The president and the governor spoke over the phone and had “a very good call,” Trump posted on Truth Social. Walz’s office released a statement that described the call as “productive.”
“[W]e, actually, seemed to be on a similar wavelength,” Trump said.
Leavitt said during the press conference that Trump would agree to pull Customs and Border Patrol out of Minnesota if local law enforcement in the state would work with ICE agents to arrest dangerous illegal aliens.

Leavitt Rips Democrats For Inciting ‘Left-Wing Agitators And Crazy People’ Against Feds

Leavitt Rips Democrats For Siccing ‘Left-Wing Agitators And Crazy People’ Against Feds

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The negative portrayal of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents by Democrats is leading to violence in the streets, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt warned on Thursday after The Daily Wire’s Mary Margaret Olohan asked her about rising unrest.
Leavitt showed a picture of a CNN chyron that read: “Protests Erupt After Federal Agent Shoots Man In Minneapolis.”
“That’s not the story,” Leavitt said.
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🚨<a href="https://twitter.com/PressSec?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PressSec</a> goes OFF on the MSM and Democrats for demonizing ICE agents:
&#8220;I would encourage everyone in this room, and I would encourage Gov. Walz and other Democrats who are demeaning law enforcement to sit down and have a cup of coffee with an ICE agent&#8230;
The Democrat party… <a href="https://t.co/AB7SIjKgdB">pic.twitter.com/AB7SIjKgdB</a>
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To learn the real story, Leavitt urged Americans to turn to the Department of Homeland Security’s statement.
“This ICE agent was executing a targeted operation against a Venezuelan illegal alien who was unlawfully present in this country,” Leavitt said. “When this ICE agent tried to detain the individual, three more of his comrades came rushing out of the house and started ambushing and attacking the ICE agent. They used a shovel or a broom to smash his face in, and so yes, that agent had to use self-defense and take up his weapon to protect his own life.”
The press secretary reiterated that ICE agents and law enforcement are enforcing the country’s immigration laws while “elected officials are encouraging violence” against “our brave men and women in law enforcement.”
“Democratic governors and mayors” were not the only targets of Leavitt; the press secretary had a fiery exchange with a reporter who brought up Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s comment that ICE agents “are doing everything correctly.”
The reporter asked Leavitt, given that Renee Good was shot in the head, how ICE agents could be doing “everything correctly.” Leavitt first responded with a question, asking the reporter: “Why was Renee Good unfortunately and tragically killed?” The reporter answered, “Because an ICE agent acted recklessly and killed her unjustifiably?”
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&#8220;You&#8217;re a left-wing hack. You&#8217;re not a reporter. You&#8217;re posing in this room as a journalist&#8230; You and the people in the media who have such biases but fake like you&#8217;re a journalist — you shouldn&#8217;t even be sitting in that seat.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/ebZzHj7hPs">pic.twitter.com/ebZzHj7hPs</a>
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Leavitt responded, “Oh, okay, so you’re a biased reporter with a left-wing opinion. … Do you have the numbers of how many American citizens were killed at the hands of illegal aliens who ICE is trying to remove from this country? I bet you don’t. Shame on you and the people of the media who have a crooked and biased view.”
She then encouraged Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and other Democrats “who are demeaning law enforcement to sit down and have a cup of coffee with an ICE agent or a border patrol agent.”
“These are great, patriotic men and women who have families who put on the uniform every day and are following our nation’s immigration laws at the direction of their bosses, and again at the direction of the law. They are simply trying to enforce the law and the Democrat Party has demeaned these individuals; they have even referred to them as Nazis and as the Gestapo.”
Leavitt said it is that very rhetoric that is “absolutely leading to the violence we are seeing in the streets.”

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt Holds News Briefing

‘Shame On You’: White House Fed Up With Disrespect Toward Law Enforcement

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WASHINGTON—The ICE agent who fatally shot Renee Good after she blocked federal officers with her car and then drove toward him with her vehicle has the staunch backing of the White House, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed Monday.
Leavitt reiterated President Donald Trump&#8217;s position on the incident as she spoke to reporters outside the White House on a frigid Monday afternoon, tearing into protestors for opposing the ICE operations in Minneapolis — operations intended to make their community safer.
&#8220;All weekend long, you had agitators and violent American citizens out in the streets of Minneapolis &#8216;protesting,'&#8221; Leavitt said. &#8220;Protesting what, exactly? Apparently, they are protesting the removal of heinous murderers and rapists and criminals.&#8221;
The White House press secretary praised the ICE agents who continue doing their work despite the backlash from left-wing protestors. She specifically emphasized that the Trump administration has the back of the ICE agent who shot 37-year-old Good, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/renee-good-was-trained-ice-watch-warrior-locals-say">described by her neighbors</a> as a &#8220;warrior&#8221; member of an &#8220;ICE watch&#8221; group.
&#8220;ICE is doing an incredibly important job that&#8217;s not just important to our homeland security, but our national security,&#8221; Leavitt said. &#8220;This administration will continue to stand wholeheartedly by the brave men and women of ICE, including that officer in Minneapolis who was absolutely justified in using self-defense against a lunatic who is part of a group, an organized group, to interject and to impede on law enforcement operations.&#8221;
<div id="attachment_1026719" style="width: 874px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/white-house-stands-by-embattled-ice-agent-slams-renee-good-as-lunatic/karoline-leavitt-speaks-to-press-on-white-house-grounds" rel="attachment wp-att-1026719"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1026719" class="wp-image-1026719 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/01/GettyImages-2255943496-864x576.jpg" alt="" width="864" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/01/GettyImages-2255943496-864x576.jpg 864w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/01/GettyImages-2255943496-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/01/GettyImages-2255943496-768x512.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/01/GettyImages-2255943496.jpg 1024w" sizes=" (max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px" /></a>WASHINGTON, DC &#8211; JANUARY 12: U.S. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt speaks to reporters outside of the West Wing of the White House on January 12, 2026, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)</div>
She added, &#8220;It&#8217;s disgusting what we have seen from the Left, and I think that it just shows you where the modern-day Democrat Party stands today in protecting illegal alien pedophiles and rapists and murderers over law-abiding American citizens and our brave men and women who serve in law enforcement.&#8221;
The ICE agent who is currently under heavy scrutiny <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-ice-agent-who-shot-minneapolis-woman-handled-previous-ramming-by-an-illegal-immigrant-pedophile?author=Jennie+Taer&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=4&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=How+ICE+Agent+Who+Shot+Minneapolis+Woman+Handled+Previous+Ramming+By+An+Illegal+Immigrant+Pedophile">was previously dragged</a> over 100 yards down the street as he chased an illegal immigrant who was convicted of “repeatedly sexually abusing his 16-year-old stepdaughter,” the Daily Wire&#8217;s Jennie Taer previously reported. The officer repeatedly tried to de-escalate the situation and gave the suspect the opportunity to comply, court documents show.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/renee-good-was-trained-ice-watch-warrior-locals-say">According to the Department of Homeland Security</a>, there has been a 1,300% increase in assaults on ICE agents, a 3,200% surge in vehicle attacks on ICE agents, and an 8,000% increase in death threats against ICE agents. DHS blames this rise in violence against ICE agents on the “malicious rhetoric of sanctuary politicians.&#8221;
Democrats across the board argue that the ICE agent killed Good without justification. Top voices like Zohran Mamdani outright <a href="https://x.com/NYCMayor/status/2009015792382390463?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2009015792382390463%7Ctwgr%5E4ad0e24c419019b7491c35bf03cd21064f06fc72%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Fhow-ice-agent-who-shot-minneapolis-woman-handled-previous-ramming-by-an-illegal-immigrant-pedophile">accused</a> the ICE agent of murdering Good, former presidential candidate Kamala Harris said the &#8220;Trump administration&#8217;s explanation of this shooting is pure gaslighting,&#8221; and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey has <a href="https://x.com/MayorFrey/status/2009010043778437322?s=20">repeatedly characterized</a> ICE and their activities as dangerous to the public, telling ICE to &#8220;get the f*ck out of Minneapolis.&#8221;
Meanwhile, President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance were quick to back the agent, citing videos of the incident showing that he shot Good after she drove her car into him.
&#8220;I have just viewed the clip of the event which took place in Minneapolis, Minnesota,&#8221; the president said in a post on Wednesday. &#8220;It is a horrible thing to watch. The woman screaming was, obviously, a professional agitator, and the woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer, who seems to have shot her in self defense.&#8221;
Trump said at the time that &#8220;the reason these incidents are happening is because the Radical Left is threatening, assaulting, and targeting our Law Enforcement Officers and ICE Agents on a daily basis.&#8221;
&#8220;They are just trying to do the job of MAKING AMERICA SAFE,&#8221; he argued. &#8220;We need to stand by and protect our Law Enforcement Officers from this Radical Left Movement of Violence and Hate!&#8221;
As for Vance, the vice president took the podium at the White House press briefing on Thursday and aggressively defended the administration&#8217;s immigration enforcement, backing the ICE agent and calling on reporters to pray for the man facing so much backlash, arguing that the agent “wishes he was not put in the position where he had to fire a gun to defend his own life.”
&#8220;The way that the media, by and large, has reported this story has been an absolute disgrace,&#8221; he told the White House press, &#8220;and it puts our law enforcement officers at risk every single day.&#8221;

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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced that she is expecting a baby girl in May, calling the news “the greatest Christmas gift we could ever ask for.”
“My husband and I are thrilled to grow our family and can’t wait to watch our son become a big brother. My heart is overflowing with gratitude to God for the blessing of motherhood, which I truly believe is the closest thing to heaven on earth.”
Leavitt thanked both the president and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles for creating a pro-family work environment. “I am also extremely grateful to President Trump and our Chief of Staff Susie Wiles for their support, and for fostering a pro-family environment in the White House.”
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Leavitt has previously praised the White House&#8217;s &#8220;family-friendly environment&#8221; during an interview with The Daily Wire, saying it&#8217;s &#8220;a testament to the president and the chief of staff as well.&#8221;
Other working mothers have also commented on the Trump administration&#8217;s support.
“They are so incredibly understanding about mothers’ schedules, making it home on time for family time,” Joanna Wischer, deputy director of the Made in America office in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and mother to a one-year-old, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/on-being-a-mom-at-the-white-house">told</a> The Daily Wire. “The culture of the Trump administration is to make it so that we get as much done as possible in a reasonable timeframe and then be able to balance life with being able to see our kids, spend time with the family.”
Leavitt has also stressed that her family support system helps her while she serves as a mother and press secretary.
“I’m very blessed with a great support system,” Leavitt told The Daily Wire. “A wonderful husband who is an amazing father to our son, great parents who come to D.C. often to help when we need it. And my faith really keeps me grounded in giving me the strength to do both jobs, very important jobs, at the same time.”
A senior White House official <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/karoline-leavitt-expecting-baby-girl-may-2026-says-motherhood-closest-thing-heaven-earth">reported</a> that Leavitt will continue to serve as President Trump’s press secretary — a role she previously served on the campaign trail while pregnant with her firstborn.
Four days after delivering her son, Leavitt was back to doing media hits. The press secretary <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/on-being-a-mom-at-the-white-house">told</a> The Daily Wire that her original plan when her son was born was to take some time off, as Wiles advised. However, witnessing the shocking assassination attempt on President Trump while holding her newborn son, Leavitt told her husband that it was time to go &#8220;back to work.&#8221;
“I felt compelled to be present in this historic moment. The president literally put his life on the line to win this election. The least I could do is get back to work quickly,” Leavitt stated.
Many conservative influencers have rushed to congratulate Leavitt. &#8220;Going to tell my kids you are Super Woman. Congratulations!&#8221; said Savannah Antao.
Popular X account MAGA Voice <a href="https://x.com/MAGAVoice/status/2004634523355807908">stated</a>, &#8220;Breaking Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt just announced she is Pregnant. Congratulations. MAGA is growing.&#8221;
Leavitt is the first pregnant White House press secretary in U.S. history.

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Top Trump officials are rallying behind chief of staff Susie Wiles after it was reported that Wiles made unflattering comments about the Trump team in a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/susie-wiles-slams-vanity-fair-over-disingenuously-framed-hit-piece?author=Mary+Margaret+Olohan&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Susie+Wiles+Unloads+On+Trump+Team%2C+White+House+On+Defense%3F">forthcoming Vanity Fair profile</a>.
Attorney General Pam Bondi, Vice President JD Vance, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, Donald Trump Jr., Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, and FBI Director Kash Patel are just some of the heavy hitters sticking up for Wiles.
Bondi, whom Wiles allegedly criticized over her handling of the Epstein files, said on Tuesday that Wiles fights for the Trump agenda every day &#8220;with grace, loyalty, and historic effectiveness.&#8221; The AG also suggested the coming profile was a failed &#8220;attempt to divide this administration.&#8221;
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My dear friend <a href="https://twitter.com/SusieWiles?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SusieWiles</a> fights every day to advance President Trump’s agenda – and she does so with grace, loyalty, and historic effectiveness.
Any attempt to divide this administration will fail.
Any attempt to undermine and downplay President Trump’s monumental…
— Attorney General Pamela Bondi (@AGPamBondi) <a href="https://twitter.com/AGPamBondi/status/2000991371952357796?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 16, 2025</a></blockquote>
VP Vance joked about Wiles allegedly calling him a &#8220;conspiracy theorist&#8221; in the profile, while also heaping praise on Wiles for being authentic and the &#8220;best&#8221; chief of staff for President Donald Trump.
&#8220;Sometimes I am a conspiracy theorist, but I only believe in the conspiracy theories that are true,&#8221; Vance addressed the alleged comments. &#8220;And, by the way, Susie and I have joked about that in private and in public. For example, I believed in the crazy conspiracy theory back in 2020 that it was stupid to mask three-year-olds at the height of the COVID pandemic. I believed in this crazy conspiracy theory that the media and the government were covering up the fact that Joe Biden was clearly unable to do the job. And I believed in the conspiracy theory that Joe Biden was trying to throw his political opponents in jail rather than win an argument against his political opponents.&#8221;
&#8220;So, at least on some of these conspiracy theories, it turns out that a conspiracy theory is just something that was true six months before the media admitted it,&#8221; Vance joked. &#8220;And that&#8217;s my understanding.&#8221;
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Vance then praised Wiles as &#8220;the same exact person&#8221; when she&#8217;s in front of President Trump as she is when he&#8217;s not around, which the VP said is very unlike most people in politics.
&#8220;I have never seen her be disloyal to the president of the United States, and that makes her the best White House chief of staff that I think the president could have asked for,&#8221; he said.
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JUST IN: JD Vance fires back at reporter who asked him about Susie Wiles&#8217; alleged comment that he is a conspiracy theorist, starts listing off every conspiracy theory he believes in.
&#8220;I only believe in the conspiracy theories that are true.&#8221;
&#8220;I believed in the crazy conspiracy… <a href="https://t.co/NOhD9SJgg9">pic.twitter.com/NOhD9SJgg9</a>
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) <a href="https://twitter.com/CollinRugg/status/2000981034389979313?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 16, 2025</a></blockquote>
Vance also said the Trump team should give fewer interviews to the mainstream media, suggesting the MSM is not trustworthy.
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Vance&#8217;s parting comment on the VF article:
&#8220;If any of us have learned a lesson from that Vanity Fair article, I hope that the lesson is we should be giving fewer interviews to mainstream media outlets.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/kSDrHW0cU3">https://t.co/kSDrHW0cU3</a>
— Alayna Treene (@alaynatreene) <a href="https://twitter.com/alaynatreene/status/2000977900435132499?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 16, 2025</a></blockquote>
Secretary Leavitt, early Tuesday morning, posted on X, &#8220;Chief of Staff Susie Wiles has helped President Trump achieve the most successful first 11 months in office of any President in American history. President Trump has no greater or more loyal advisor than Susie. The entire Administration is grateful for her steady leadership and united fully behind her.&#8221;
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Chief of Staff Susie Wiles has helped President Trump achieve the most successful first 11 months in office of any President in American history.
President Trump has no greater or more loyal advisor than Susie.
The entire Administration is grateful for her steady leadership and… <a href="https://t.co/Y3NEXI6a1E">https://t.co/Y3NEXI6a1E</a>
— Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) <a href="https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/2000944086904160480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 16, 2025</a></blockquote>
&#8220;Susie Wiles is by far the most effective and trustworthy Chief of Staff that my father has ever had,&#8221; Don Jr. said. &#8220;I very rarely speak out about my father&#8217;s staffers, but there is no one on Earth more equipped to serve my father as Chief of Staff than Susie.&#8221;
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Susie Wiles is by far the most effective and trustworthy Chief of Staff that my father has ever had.
When Susie took over my father&#8217;s political operation after J6, people forget how many &#8220;Republicans&#8221; were treating him like a pariah.
Countless operatives, consultants and… <a href="https://t.co/hCGRZT3qJe">https://t.co/hCGRZT3qJe</a>
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) <a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/2000968315880038713?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 16, 2025</a></blockquote>
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth blasted the media for the profile. &#8220;This is what the Left does: trash &amp; smear our best &amp; most effective people. They do it to President Trump daily — and now to Chief Susie Wiles,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;Susie is the most TRUSTED, most PROFESSIONAL &amp; most EFFECTIVE Chief of Staff of my lifetime. Absolutely nobody better!&#8221;
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This is what the Left does: trash &amp; smear our best &amp; most effective people.
They do it to President Trump daily — and now to Chief Susie Wiles.
Susie is the most TRUSTED, most PROFESSIONAL &amp; most EFFECTIVE Chief of Staff of my lifetime. Absolutely nobody better! <a href="https://t.co/2w34GZJFuS">https://t.co/2w34GZJFuS</a>
— Pete Hegseth (@PeteHegseth) <a href="https://twitter.com/PeteHegseth/status/2000985697226777027?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 16, 2025</a></blockquote>
&#8220;Fake news comes after you when you’re effective… and there’s nobody in [Donald Trump]’s team more effective than [Susie Wiles],&#8221; FBI Director Kash Patel posted online.
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Fake news comes after you when you’re effective… and there’s nobody in <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a>’s team more effective than <a href="https://twitter.com/SusieWiles?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SusieWiles</a>
— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) <a href="https://twitter.com/FBIDirectorKash/status/2000961090612813971?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 16, 2025</a></blockquote>
President Trump, too, told the New York Post on Tuesday that he was not offended by Wiles&#8217; remarks.
“No, she meant that I’m — you see, I don’t drink alcohol,&#8221; he explained. &#8220;So everybody knows that — but I’ve often said that if I did, I’d have a very good chance of being an alcoholic. I have said that many times about myself, I do. It’s a very possessive personality.&#8221;
“I’ve said that many times about myself,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;I’m fortunate I’m not a drinker. If I did, I could very well, because I’ve said that — what’s the word? Not possessive — possessive and addictive type personality. Oh, I’ve said it many times, many times before.”
Wiles said on Tuesday that the coming profile &#8220;is a disingenuously framed hit piece on me and the finest President, White House staff, and Cabinet in history,&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/susie-wiles-slams-vanity-fair-over-disingenuously-framed-hit-piece?author=Mary+Margaret+Olohan&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Susie+Wiles+Unloads+On+Trump+Team%2C+White+House+On+Defense%3F">The Daily Wire</a> reported.
&#8220;Significant context was disregarded and much of what I, and others, said about the team and the president was left out of the story,&#8221; she continued.
“I assume, after reading it, that this was done to paint an overwhelmingly chaotic and negative narrative about the president and our team,” Wiles added. “The truth is the Trump White House has already accomplished more in eleven months than any other president has accomplished in eight years and that is due to the unmatched leadership and vision of President Trump, for whom I have been honored to work for the better part of a decade. None of this will stop our relentless pursuit of Making America Great Again!”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/susie-wiles-slams-vanity-fair-over-disingenuously-framed-hit-piece?author=Mary+Margaret+Olohan&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Susie+Wiles+Unloads+On+Trump+Team%2C+White+House+On+Defense%3F">Susie Wiles Unloads On Trump Team, White House On Defense?</a>

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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt answered questions on affordability and inflation during a sometimes contentious press briefing on Thursday.
“Every economic metric does in fact show that the economy is getting better and brighter than where it was under the previous administration,” Leavitt noted at the top of the briefing prior to taking questions.
Eric Bolling of Real America’s Voice kicked off the questioning, pointing to declining energy prices.
“Energy prices have been coming down aggressively since Trump’s second term with $55 per barrel and gas prices under $3 for the first time in the past five years,” Bolling began. “Some people in this room want to call this an affordability crisis right now, seeming to want to forget four years prior when we hit 9% inflation. That’s an affordability crisis, but we weren’t calling it that back then. How will President Trump ensure that the legacy media does not flip the script?”
Leavitt responded, calling the media’s coverage of affordability under the Trump administration “a point of frustration” for both herself and the president.
“It’s a great question, Eric,” she said. “It is part of the reason I kicked off this briefing today, setting the record straight with facts about the economic mess that the president inherited from his predecessor Joe Biden.”
Leavitt called affordability a top priority for President Trump, offering several figures to demonstrate her point.
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“Inflation has slowed to an average 2.5% pace; real wages are increasing roughly $1,200 for the average worker; gas prices are down in almost every single state across the country, in 22 states, it&#8217;s below $2.75; the tax cuts will go into effect next year; the best is yet to come, and the president is digging the country out of the economic hole that the previous administration put us in.”
A separate and somewhat heated exchange came during questioning from CNN’s Kaitlin Collins, who asked, “If the economy is as strong as the president has said it is, then why is he telling parents two to three weeks before Christmas that they should only buy two or three dolls for their children?”
Leavitt responded, noting the president’s intention to bring manufacturing back to the United States: “Maybe you’ll pay a dollar or two more, but you will get better quality and you’ll be supporting your fellow Americans by buying American.”
Collins followed up by challenging Leavitt on inflation — but the press secretary pushed back sharply.
“There’s a lot more scrutiny on this issue from this press corps,” responded Leavitt. “My predecessor stood up at this podium and she said inflation doesn’t exist. She said the border was secure, and people like you just took her at her word. Those were two utter lies. Everything I’m telling you is the truth backed by my real, factual data, and you just don’t want to report on it because you want to push untrue narratives about the president.”
Leavitt said she wishes “more people would remind the American public of how we got here and why.”
“It does not mean the president is discarding the American people’s feelings. The president gets it better than anyone, which is why his entire administration has been focused on the economy and energy prices since day one.”
She went on to describe Democrats as “the greatest con artists in history” who are “trying to claim ownership of an issue that they created.”
Reporters also asked three separate questions about the selection of the next Federal Reserve Chair. Leavitt did not reveal when the announcement would be made, but reiterated that President Trump has long called for rate cuts.
“I think the president has been quite clear about what he believes the Fed should be doing, which is lowering interest rates,” said Leavitt. She added that the president was pleased with the quarter point cut this week, but thinks “more should be done.”

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