Karoline Leavitts’ briefing outfit looks eerily familiar, critics scoff
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt has often been accused by critics of conducting North Korea-style propaganda on behalf of her boss, President Donald Trump.
On Wednesday, some suggested she had taken the comparison a step further by dressing the part as well.
Social media users joked that Leavitt’s outfit for a White House news conference resembled (at least in color) the signature look of North Korean state television host Ri Chun-hee, whose bombastic broadcasts defending the so-called Hermit Kingdom’s dictator, Kim Jong Un, have gone viral online for years.
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“Leavitt was wearing Ri Chun-hee’s suit today,” joked journalist Aaron Rupar on X, the platform owned by Elon Musk formerly known as Twitter, in a post that racked up more than 300,000 views.
Writer Hemant Mehta echoed the sentiment, noting, “It probably doesn’t help that she’s wearing North Korean news anchor colors while saying this.”
Others took the joke further, sharing altered images that appeared to place Leavitt, who announced last month that she is pregnant with her second child, directly into Ri’s on-air locker room and arguing that their messages also sounded strikingly similar.