cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/37519364
Top White House officials told a reporter, “Your mom,” when asked who picked the location for Donald Trump’s upcoming meeting with Vladimir Putin.
Trump announced Thursday that he will soon meet with Putin in Budapest, Hungary, to discuss an end to the war in Ukraine. The choice has raised questions, because Putin is wanted by the International Criminal Court. However, Hungary appears unlikely to cooperate with the warrant and is in the process of leaving the court, the Associated Press reports.
When HuffPost asked the White House who chose the location for the meeting, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt replied, “Your mom did.” White House Communications Director Steven Cheung also followed up with, “Your mom,” the outlet reports.
I wonder how much she had to put out to get her job.
It’s probably a coordinated strategy. Cheung also said it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Cheung
The last sentence there demonstrating that it’s a character he plays for the public.
EDIT: If that sounds strange, I remember an interview some years back with an EU senior translator where the question came up of why Brussels didn’t codify an “EU English”. His answer was that that was a very intentional decision, to avoid having language that diverged from what was in general use, so as not to come off as being decoupled from the public, some sort of disconnected elite.
Now imagine that you’re doing that and cranking it up to 11 to try to demonstrate that you’re like someone that you want voting for you. A lot of politics is just saying things that people agree with and acting like them to convince them that you’re aligned with them. Trump’s political goal is to get and keep white blue-collar voters voting Republican, not Democratic.
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/wtf-donald-trump-politics-f-151806801.html
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/27/democrats-anger-swearing