Karoline Leavitt says Truth Social posts are straight from Trump - week after staffer blamed for 'Obama ape' video

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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/leavitt-press-conference-trump-truth-social-obama-b2923163.html

Karoline Leavitt says Truth Social posts are straight from Trump – week after staffer blamed for ‘Obama ape’ video
Officials previously blamed a staffer for a grotesquely racist video reposted by the president’s account earlier this month
Andrew Feinberg in Washington, D.C.
Wednesday 18 February 2026 21:50 GMT

Just weeks after the White House — and the president himself — blamed a staffer for a blatantly racist post that appeared on his Truth Social account, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt assured reporters that anything on Trump’s social media site is “straight from the horse’s mouth.”

Leavitt made the startling admission during a press briefing on Wednesday in response to a question about a message Trump had posted moments earlier on the social media site where he criticized plans for a U.K. land deal. The president’s afternoon missive was the latest in a series of abrupt and largely inexplicable reversals regarding the British government’s decision to cede control of the Chagos Islands and came just weeks after Trump had walked back previous criticism of the deal by describing the agreement as “the best” the Labour leader could strike.

Asked whether the president's latest Truth represented an official shift in American policy against the Chagos deal, Leavitt told reporters that Trump's post "should be taken as the policy of the Trump administration” because it had come “straight from the horse's mouth.”

“When you see it on Truth Social, you know it's directly from President Trump,” she said.

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