White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt slammed media outlets and Democrats on Wednesday, accusing them of trying to turn Trump administration officials against each other through mischaracterizations and false information.
During a Thursday press conference, a reporter asked Leavitt if tech titan Elon Musk, who is heading up the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) audits of the federal bureaucracy, has the “power of the presidency.”
Leavitt called the question “utterly ridiculous.”
“Elon Musk is serving at the pleasure of the president, just like everybody else on this team. He takes directives directly from the President of the United States, and I think some of the comments that you referred to are nothing more than a failed attempt from the media and from Democrats to try to sow division in this White House,” Leavitt said.
“We saw them do it in the first…
