Karoline Leavitt didn’t just appear on The Late Show last night – she conquered it. The youngest White House Press Secretary in history delivered a stunning rebuke to the tired tropes of liberal media, leaving Stephen Colbert visibly shaken and his audience divided.
From her opening defense of Trump’s “greatest of all time” presidency to her closing remarks about fighting for her son’s future, Leavitt embodied the new generation of conservative leadership – digitally native, media-savvy, and utterly fearless. When Colbert tried attacking Trump’s Ukraine peace deal, she flipped the script: “You call it bowing to Putin; I call it winning.” When he mocked her TikTok diplomacy, she reminded him that 728,000 Twitter followers can’t be wrong.
The aftermath proved her point – while CNN and the usual suspects criticized her “evasiveness,” Fox celebrated her as the “new face of conservative politics,” and her viral clips amassed millions of views. Leavitt didn’t just win the interview; she demonstrated how conservatives can bypass hostile media entirely, taking their message straight to the people through digital platforms.
