Speaking at a White House briefing on Wednesday, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt made a statement that may cause serious problems for the administration.
She told reporters that anything posted on Truth Social by Donald Trump is “straight from the horse’s mouth.”
“When you see it on Truth Social, you know it’s directly from President Trump,” she said.
WHITE HOUSE: “When you see it on Truth Social, you know it’s directly from President Trump.”
TRUMP 2 WEEKS AGO: “Somebody posted, a staffer posted … somebody slipped. I didn’t do it. This was done by somebody else.” pic.twitter.com/Z5ThT2484C
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 18, 2026
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That sounds simple. But it creates a major contradiction.
Just days earlier, the White House blamed a staff member for a racist video that appeared on Trump’s account. The video showed Barack Obama and Michelle Obama with their faces edited onto apes while “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” played in the background.
After backlash exploded, an official claimed a staffer had “erroneously made the post.”
Trump himself also tried to step away from it.
“I gave it to the people, generally they’d look at the whole thing but I guess somebody didn’t,” he told reporters.
Now Leavitt is saying the opposite.
She insisted that a recent post criticizing a United Kingdom land deal “should be taken as the policy of the Trump administration” because it came directly from him.
That is not a small detail. That is a policy statement.
If every Truth Social post is directly from Trump, then the Obama video came from him too. If the Obama video was a staff mistake, then not every post is directly from him. Both claims cannot be true at the same time.
The timing makes it worse.
The racist video caused outrage across political lines. Even some Republican lawmakers were uncomfortable. Yet no staff member has been publicly fired over the incident.
Trump has a long record of writing and publishing his own posts. In his early years on Twitter, he frequently posted late at night and engaged critics in real time. His social media presence has consistently operated as both a political weapon and an instrument of policy signaling. That track record makes Leavitt’s statement plausible. It also makes it strategically risky.
Truth Social is not a casual outlet for Trump. It functions as a primary channel where he signals policy shifts, attacks opponents, and drives political narratives in real time. When the press secretary says those posts are official, she effectively elevates social media into formal executive communication.
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