Karoline Leavitt has been a polarizing determine since she joined the White Home in 2025 as Donald Trump’s press secretary. She’s drawn criticism for all the things from her frumpy outfits to her shady facet, however there’s one factor particularly that basically will get her haters riled up. On Could 19, 2025, she took to the rostrum to temporary the press on Trump’s new tariff coverage and the One, Large, Lovely Act. Viewers of the reside broadcast could not assist however discover how she would not cease fussing together with her hair throughout the briefing. “Can somebody inform us why she is taking part in together with her hair?” one critic requested on X, previously Twitter. One other tried to learn into her physique language. “I ponder if there is a correlation between her lies and when she performs together with her hair,” a second person posited.

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Leavitt was taking a query from CBS Information White Home correspondent Weijia Jiang when she began fidgeting together with her hair. She started by brushing her locks to the facet, pulling a piece over her proper shoulder, tucking it behind her ear, and repeating the gesture on the opposite facet. MeidasTouch’s Acyn posted a clip of her hair fussing to X, the place it quickly gained traction. “When she retains taking part in together with her hair, meaning she’s mendacity,” one person advised. Others discovered the fixed hair pushing and pulling distracting. “Beginning a GoFundMe to get this chick some hair scrunchies,” a second person quipped, whereas one other added, “Somebody must get this girl a barrette. Her fixed pushing-hair-back strikes are so annoying.”

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Whether or not she was flustered or just attempting to repair her hair for the cameras, Karoline Leavitt’s haters wasted no time mocking the press secretary for caring an excessive amount of about her look. On X, one significantly scathing publish learn, “Leavitt fixes her hair whereas the feminine reporter is asking [a] query exhibits me she’s very self-conscious about her appears to be like, in addition to the low confidence she has with herself. Possibly that is why she has a boomer as a hubby.” For context, Leavitt is married to actual property developer Nicholas Riccio, with whom she shares a stunning 32-year age hole. One other joked she could also be affected by trichotillomania, a psychological well being situation in any other case often known as hair-pulling dysfunction. “Poor lady. She’s not effectively.”

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The incident harkens again to her March 2025 Fox Information look, when not even Leavitt’s recent tan may distract from her bedhead. The White Home press member sat down for the interview to debate Donald Trump’s presidential third-term ambitions, however viewers had been in all probability extra distracted by her tousled hair and orange tan. She wore a inexperienced shirt that solely appeared to emphasise her a lot darker pores and skin tone. In the meantime, her hair was uneven, with one facet puffed out whereas the opposite facet fell flat. Provided that this was not an remoted incident, maybe it is time for Leavitt to contemplate hiring a brand new glam squad.