White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has claimed that her combative media persona is just one big act and insisted that she is really “silly” and “funny.” A screengrab of an Instagram Stories clip in which White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt claims she's "silly" and not the person seen at the podium where she's "getting at it." White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, pictured at her news briefing on July 23, 2026, claimed the person seen at the podium is not the "real” her in a confessional video. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, pictured at her briefing on July 16, 2026, has been praised by President Donald Trump for her "machine gun” lips. A separate Instagram post of Karoline Leavitt from by_brittany_danielle in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on July 23, 2026.