Karoline Leavitt's 'Gross' Holiday Cooking Has Everyone Roasting Her Much Older Husband

Karoline Leavitt's age gap with her husband became a focal point after she uploaded an unappetizing Thanksgiving meal to social media. TikTok user @campcallout posted a video eviscerating the White House press secretary's bland-looking feast. 

The clip showed a snap of Leavitt's turkey, which was placed in the oven without a hint of spices or seasoning. There was also a pic of the finished product, as the turkey was mangled and shredded and looked ludicrously dry. Leavitt's choices of sides were also examined, as she had a bowl of green beans and carrots that looked boiled without any butter or flavoring added. The mashed potatoes served up appeared to be chunky, not creamy, and only contained a fleck or two of pepper. Perhaps the biggest eyesore for Leavitt's holiday feast was the macaroni that seemed devoid of cheese and looked to just be cooked macaroni noodles by themselves.

The TikTok examining Leavitt's holiday dish disaster was reposted to X, formerly Twitter, where people roasted the press secretary. A common theme in the replies was that Leavitt was forced to serve a tasteless dinner because of her much older husband, Nicholas Riccio, who is 32 years her senior. "Her husband is old. This looks like food they serve on a cardiac restricted diet at the hospital," one member of the Twitterati joked. "Her husband is 90 years old and can't handle salt and spice," a person replied. "It's ok for her husband. All of his food gets puréed anyway," another snidely added. Leading up to that Thanksgiving meal, Leavitt's husband had skipped the turkey pardon following comments about their age gap.

Just before the holiday, Karoline Leavitt made a rare public statement addressing the age difference with Nicholas Riccio. Sitting down with Miranda Devine for the episode of the "Pod Force One" podcast on November 19, Leavitt was asked how her parents reacted to meeting her much-older partner, who was closer to their age. "It's definitely a challenging conversation to have at first," Donald Trump's press secretary admitted. "But then of course once they got to know him ... Now we're all friends," she told Devine about her parents' relationship with her husband. She also mentioned that her husband was an "introvert," which makes sense why he would eschew the spotlight next to his much younger wife.

Earlier that month, people called out the age gap with her husband after Leavitt photoshopped a pic in a misguided attempt to conceal his years. On November 2, she posted an Instagram carousel recapping October. The first slide of the post was a snap of Leavitt and Riccio, as she held their toddler, who was dressed up as a pumpkin for Halloween. Riccio was not very festive, as he simply wore a suit for the occasion. Instagram users noticed that Leavitt tried to shave some years off of her husband's face by photoshopping the image, which only made them bash the couple harder in the comment section. "Face tuning your senior citizen husband is wild lol," one wrote. "The wrinkles removed on his forehead has me GAGGED," another added. "That's her husband ? lol I thought it was grandpa," an incredulous user replied.