The One Thing Karoline Leavitt Does That Her Haters Can't Stand

Karoline Leavitt has been a polarizing figure since she joined the White House in 2025 as Donald Trump's press secretary. She's drawn criticism for everything from her frumpy outfits to her shady side, but there's one thing in particular that really gets her haters riled up. On May 19, 2025, she took to the podium to brief the press on Trump's new tariff policy and the One, Big, Beautiful Act. Viewers of the live broadcast couldn't help but notice how she wouldn't stop fussing with her hair during the briefing. "Can someone tell us why she is playing with her hair?" one critic asked on X, formerly Twitter. Another tried to read into her body language. "I wonder if there's a correlation between her lies and when she plays with her hair," a second user posited.

Leavitt: First of all, the CEO of Walmart made the comments on the tariffs on an earnings call where CEOs are legally obligated to give the most dire warnings and forecasts to their stakeholders pic.twitter.com/gFfPTXZl3c

— Acyn (@Acyn) May 19, 2025

Leavitt was taking a question from CBS News White House correspondent Weijia Jiang when she started fidgeting with her hair. She began by brushing her locks to the side, pulling a section over her right shoulder, tucking it behind her ear, and repeating the gesture on the other side. MeidasTouch's Acyn posted a clip of her hair fussing to X, where it soon gained traction. "When she keeps playing with her hair, that means she's lying," one user suggested. Others found the constant hair pushing and pulling distracting. "Starting a GoFundMe to get this chick some hair scrunchies," a second user quipped, while another added, "Someone needs to get this woman a barrette. Her constant pushing-hair-back moves are so annoying."

Whether she was flustered or simply trying to fix her hair for the cameras, Karoline Leavitt's haters wasted no time mocking the press secretary for caring too much about her appearance. On X, one particularly scathing post read, "Leavitt fixes her hair while the female reporter is asking [a] question shows me she's very self-conscious about her looks, as well as the low confidence she has with herself. Maybe that's why she has a boomer as a hubby." For context, Leavitt is married to real estate developer Nicholas Riccio, with whom she shares a shocking 32-year age gap. Another joked she may be suffering from trichotillomania, a mental health condition otherwise known as hair-pulling disorder. "Poor girl. She's not well."

The incident harkens back to her March 2025 Fox News appearance, when not even Leavitt's fresh tan could distract from her bedhead. The White House press member sat down for the interview to discuss Donald Trump's presidential third-term ambitions, but viewers were probably more distracted by her tousled hair and orange tan. She wore a green blouse that only seemed to emphasize her much darker skin tone. Meanwhile, her hair was uneven, with one side puffed out while the other side fell flat. Given that this was not an isolated incident, perhaps it's time for Leavitt to consider hiring a new glam squad.