White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt tried over the weekend to quell a firestorm of MAGA backlash after she depicted young people who struggle in Trump’s economy as lazy and entitled.

Poll after poll has shown that President Donald Trump’s support among young people has plummeted since he retook office, with his economic policies being a major reason. And Trump hasn’t helped his likability by describing the affordability crisis as a “hoax” and downplaying the need to lower housing costs.

As a 27-year-old member of the most corrupt and shamelessly self-enriching administration in modern U.S. history — and someone who has used her taxpayer-funded job to spread lies and launch childish insults on its behalf — Leavitt is arguably the epitome of entitlement.

But in an appearance on Fox News last week, she tried to cast that aspersion on other young people.

“My generation — I hate to say it, Gen Z and those younger than me —have been raised with just silver spoons in their mouths, just getting everything handed to them,” she told Fox News host Jesse Watters.

She attributed this to “laziness and the liberal indoctrination,” while endorsing Watters’ proposal to make young people who “misbehave” join the Army.

“Or send them to Cuba, send them to Iran!” she said with glee.

Had the backlash to these comments been confined to liberals, Leavitt likely would have taken things in stride. But even conservatives were alarmed at how cruel and out of touch she sounded.

On Sunday, she posted on X that “bad faith actors” were taking her comments out of context, while doubling down on her contention that laziness is a scourge plaguing young people.

But the post did little to quiet her critics. And if the personal jabs from MAGA influencers citing Leavitt’s marriage to a wealthy real estate investor three decades her senior are any sign, she and the administration have a lot of work to do to improve their image in the eyes of young people — in the Republican Party and beyond.

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