The White House is stacked with some of the dumbest people on the planet. But at least sometimes we can get a chuckle out of it.
President Donald Trump’s top spokesperson, the 28-year-old Karoline Leavitt, was asked by reporters Thursday about changes to government policies on vaccines, which will make it harder for Americans to get vaccinated against covid-19. And she delivered a pretty funny malapropism, replacing the correct word with a similar-sounding word.
“What I will tell you is that the FDA recently revoked the emergency youth authorizations for three covid vaccinations while simultaneously green-lighting four new COVID-19 vaccines with 2025 and 2026 formulas,” Leavitt said in a hilarious flub.
It appears Leavitt was trying to talk about the emergency use authorization of the covid-19 vaccines. And just in case you thought it was a one-time flub, she said it again.
“The reason for the revocation of that emergency youth authorization is because obviously the covid pandemic and the public health emergency is over,” Leavitt said.
The White House Press Secretary went on to supposedly “correct the record” about “misinformation” regarding the new vaccine policies coming out of Robert F. Kennedy’s Department of Health and Human Services. The Health Secretary is a longtime anti-vaccine advocate who is currently trying to destroy America’s public health infrastructure with absolute bullshit.
“But just to correct the record, because there’s been a lot of misinformation on this, the FDA’s decision does not affect the availability of COVID vaccines for Americans who want them,” Leavitt said. “We believe in individual choice. That’s a promise both the president and the secretary have made, and it’s a promise they have now delivered on.”
Trump fired the director of the CDC, Susan Monarez, on Wednesday, and at least four senior officials at the public health agency resigned. By all appearances, Monarez couldn’t abide the Trump regime’s anti-vaccine policies, which are making it harder for people to get vaccinated. The new changes announced Wednesday mean that only people who are 65+ or have an underlying condition that makes them vulnerable to severe disease from covid are eligible. What that means in practice remains to be seen.
But Leavitt didn’t acknowledge the new roadblocks to vaccination and instead spouted her bullshit about how anyone can get the shot if they want it. And while the topic is dead-serious, it’s good to laugh at how idiotic these people are sometimes.
Leavitt has a habit of saying the wrong word, like that time she called the Indo-Pacific the “Indo-specific,” delivering it with the unearned confidence of the dumbest person you’ve ever met.
Everybody misspeaks on occasion, but Leavitt does it so frequently that the White House press corps seems to just take it in stride. It’s a wonder that they don’t just break out in laughter whenever she takes the podium to deliver her latest tirade about Trump being God’s greatest gift to mankind.
Remember when she delivered that tangent in April and proclaimed the employment rate was at an all-time low?
She meant the unemployment rate, of course. Unless she was just giving us a preview of what’s to come. Given the way Trump is acting, we can’t be sure of anything anymore.