Karoline Leavitt Thinks We’re All Idiots
Bulwark Takes
The Bulwark
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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JVL and Andrew Egger take on a surreal White House briefing where everything is supposedly “going great”—even as TSA chaos, rising gas prices, and a widening Iran conflict tell a very different story. Plus: how JD Vance is getting boxed into a political no-win situation.
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| 0:30.1 | Hello, everyone. This is JVL here with my bulwark colleague, Andrew Eger, author of the Morning |
| 0:35.8 | Shots newsletter, and Caroline Levitt went before the press |
| 0:39.2 | today and spoke to the media and good news. Andrew, everything is great. Everything is fantastic. |
| 0:46.8 | The world is amazing. The war is so explosions. Explosions! War! |
| 0:56.0 | There is one problem. |
| 1:02.3 | One problem only, Andrew, and that is the TSA lines that people are being forced to endure in this country by the Democrat Party. |
| 1:05.5 | We're going to unpack all of Carolyn Leavitt's kind of insane press conference. |
| 1:11.8 | But I want to start with one thing that I, as she said it in Slack, I sort of type to you |
| 1:17.4 | at all caps, Andrew. |
| 1:18.5 | She said, the cruelty is the point, which is, I think, a phrase made famous by Adam Sewer |
| 1:26.5 | from the Atlantic talking about the Trump administration |
| 1:30.2 | and the things that the Trump administration has done, for instance, feeding USAID into the woodchipper, |
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