Worse Than Sean Spicer: Jimmy Kimmel Rips Trump’s New Press Secretary

Jimmy Kimmel called out President Donald Trump’s new press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, suggesting she may be worse than Sean Spicer, who lasted mere months in the role during Trump’s first administration.

In his monologue Tuesday, Kimmel pushed back at Leavitt for going along with Trump’s false claims of having solved the California wildfire crisis via military intervention.

Kimmel played a clip from Leavitt’s debut press briefing, where she argued that the Los Angeles water supply was turned on thanks to “the pressure campaign [Trump] put on state and local officials there who clearly lack all common sense.”

“This might be worse than when [Trump] made Sean Spicer say he had the biggest inauguration crowd in history,” said Kimmel.

Spicer was Trump’s first press secretary back in 2017, whose aggressive treatment of the press was famously parodied by Melissa McCarthy on Saturday Night Live.

“Whether or not the US military entered California and turned the water on is not a matter of debate,” Kimmel continued. “This is not liberal versus conservative. It didn’t happen, OK?”

Later in his monologue, Kimmel returned to the press conference and explained who Leavitt was to his audience:

“That, by the way, was the new White House press secretary,” he said. “She’s 27 years old. She’s the youngest press secretary ever. She’s married to a much older real estate magnate, which, you know, in that case you’re hired.”

Kimmel continued, “Leavitt is now the ringleader at the White House, where she promised a new and more circus-like atmosphere going forward.”

He played a clip of Leavitt announcing, “We welcome independent journalists, podcasters, social media influencers, and content creators to apply for credentials to cover this White House.”

“This is going to be interesting,” Kimmel said. ”They’re about to open the White House to pro-Trump influencers and content creators."

The late night host joked, “And I’ll take one question from FJerry and two from the Rizzler, OK?”