Frequent Trump critic Jim Acosta confronted backlash after he blasted Karoline Leavitt – evaluating the youngest-ever White Home press secretary to a “kid” who’s “telling you a tall tale.”
On Wednesday, throughout an interview with left-leaning podcast Meidas Contact, the previous CNN anchor torched the most recent press secretary.
“She [Leavitt] might just get on Trump’s all-star team of liars,” Acosta stated. “She might be on the bench right now, but if she keeps working hard, she does her homework, she just might make it onto the team.”
“It’s sort of like…when your kid is telling you a tall tale, and you’re just looking at them like, ‘Okay Johnny, sure, yeah, I believe you,” he continued, “and you just walk away saying, ‘What the hell. That kid’s not telling me the truth.’”
Leavitt delivered her first briefing from the White Home as press secretary late final month.
At 27, she is the youngest to ever serve within the position.
Earlier than Leavitt, the youngest White Home press secretary was 29-year-old Ronald Ziegler throughout the Nixon administration.
Trump supporters have been fast to denounce Acosta’s assault on Leavitt on social media, accusing the journalist of hypocrisy.
“You have less than zero credibility at this point,” one critic wrote in a submit on X.
“Jim’s just jealous & hurt that young woman are so much smarter & far more relevant than his washed up old lying ass!” one other person wrote on X.
Some customers accused Acosta of mendacity all through his personal profession, with one posting: “Jim Acosta calling someone a LIAR… now that’s rich.”
Different critics took jabs at Acosta after CNN reportedly tried to exile him to a graveyard shift, pushing him to stop final month.
“Unemployed former quasi-journalist says what?” one person on X stated.
One other wrote: “Jim looks lonely sitting in his room with no job.”
Acosta implied that Leavitt was worse than Trump’s first-term press secretaries.
“It’s hard to see somebody out-Spicer Sean Spicer, or out-Huckabee Sarah Huckabee Sanders, but Karoline Leavitt, she’s making a run for it,” Acosta stated.
The previous CNN host then nodded to Melissa McCarthy’s Sean Spicer character on “Saturday Night Live.”
“I would have to think that something like that is in the works because the skit writes itself,” he stated, a couple of doable Leavitt impersonator on the comedy sketch present. “They’re such bad liars.”
Acosta slammed President Trump, accusing him of being “addicted” to seeing himself on tv and forcing his staffers to mislead the press.
It’s “a sad and sorry state of affairs,” Acosta stated. “I feel very sorry for the fact-checkers out there because once again, they’re working in overdrive.”
