From Yahoo!News:
""Your Mom Did": Karoline Leavitt Had An Incredibly Sophomoric Response To A Very Simple Question About Trump
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After President Donald Trump touted yet another meeting with his benefactor/murderous dictator Vladimir Putin
Thursday, this time in Budapest, HuffPost contacted his top
spokespeople at the White House with an obvious question: Why Budapest?
After all, the
Hungarian capital was the site of the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, in which
Ukraine gave up the thousands of nuclear weapons it had inherited upon
the breakup of the Soviet Union in return for assurances that Russia [and the USA and UK - M. M.] would respect Ukraine’s territorial integrity.
Putin broke that
promise with his 2014 invasion and annexation of Crimea, with his
decade-long military offensive in the Donbas region, and then with his
all-out invasion in 2022. He continues killing Ukrainian civilians in
their homes to this day with regular drone and missile attacks.
Given all that, HuffPost asked the White House: Who picked Budapest?
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt responded minutes later with: “Your mom did.”
White House Communications Director Steven Cheung after a minute added the far more succinct: “Your mom.”
After HuffPost asked Leavitt if she thought her response was funny, she replied:
“It’s funny to me
that you actually consider yourself a journal [sic]. You are a far left
hack who nobody takes seriously, including your colleagues in the media,
they just don’t tell you that to your face. Stop texting me your
disingenuous, biased, and bullshit questions.”
HuffPost is
devastated, and is fearful of asking any more questions, let alone
escalating with “I’m rubber, you’re glue,” or some such.
This article originally appeared on HuffPost."
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On the same topic, from a report in the Daily Beast / Yahoo!News:
"White House Fires Off Childish Insults Over Trump’s Putin Summit
Tom Sanders
When asked whether the
president is aware of the significance of Budapest in terms of
Russia-Ukraine relations, CNAS transatlantic security analyst Jim
Townsend told the HuffPost, “I’m sure Trump doesn’t know and doesn’t
care.
“Trump likes Orban and probably thinks he’s doing him a solid,” he added. “Also, Putin is an Orban friend. Most of the world would not consider Budapest neutral ground for such a meeting, but I guess Trump and Putin do.”
Orban, a rightwing autocrat, has borrowed heavily from both Trump and Putin’s playbooks to dismantle much of Hungary’s democracy. Since the start of the war, Orban has used his position to delay military aid to Ukraine and act as a prominent pro-Russian voice in European politics..."
The meeting was ultimately called off.
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