These comments quickly spread online, with many expressing their discomfort. Footage of the exchange was posted on social media platform X, prompting users to voice their disapproval. “How is it impossible for this motherf***er to not be a creep?” one user questioned. Others echoed similar sentiments, with one remarking, “Um…ewww. Grody. Yuck.” The remarks even fueled rumors of an affair between Trump and the younger Leavitt. “So he really did hire the women in his administration based solely on bedroom experience,” commented another user. Discussions also arose about the significant age difference between Leavitt and her husband.

This isn’t the first time Trump has made such comments about Leavitt. The former president previously described her in a similar manner during an August 1 interview with Newsmax. “It’s that face. It’s that brain. It’s those lips. … They move like she’s a machine gun,” he stated. As with the recent comments, this earlier incident also led to widespread social media backlash and speculation about a possible affair, particularly following a trip abroad that Trump and Leavitt took together.

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Adding to the speculation, earlier that month, Leavitt posted photos on Instagram showing her with Trump on the White House lawn. In the images, she wore a form-fitting, sleeveless green dress that drew attention. These posts did not go unnoticed, as critics took to the comments section, accusing Leavitt of having an inappropriate relationship with Trump.

That, of course, was not the first time Trump made creepy comments about Leavitt’s lips. He used the same “machine gun” rhetoric when discussing Leavitt during an August 1 Newsmax interview. “It’s that face. It’s that brain. It’s those lips. … They move like she’s a machine gun,” Trump said at the time. Similar to the Air Force One remarks, footage of the skin-crawling description was shared on social media, where people had the affair rumor mill churning. Chatter of inter-office infidelity had sparked a bit earlier when Trump and Leavitt went overseas together.

Just days before Donald Trump’s embarrassing comments on Newsmax about Karoline Leavitt, affair rumors swirled after his visit to Scotland with the press secretary. On July 29, Leavitt uploaded an Instagram carousel that recapped the trip. The first slide was a photo of her cozying up to POTUS on a golf course as they smiled for the camera. Among the slides was also a snap of the two riding in a golf cart together. Trolls came out in full force once the photos were posted, and a running refrain was Leavitt’s attraction to much-older men. “Is this the husband you found at the nursing home,” an Instagram user wrote.

Earlier that month, Leavitt had caused an online stir when she uploaded two Instagram pictures of her and Trump standing together on the White House lawn as he fielded questions. The press secretary rocked a tight-fitting sleeveless green dress that accentuated her figure. Similar to other posts, anti-Trumpsters popped up in the comments and accused Leavitt of having an inappropriate relationship with Trump.

Around that same time, author Michael Wolff offered a theory about Trump’s relationship with the women in his administration — many of whom bear a resemblance to one another with the blond hair, fillers, and use of other beauty techniques. “One of the things he is doing is populating his world with women who he, I suppose, in another life or at another stage of life, might have been involved with,” Wolf said on “The Daily Beast Podcast” in July. Wolff believed Trump was performing a sort of emotional cheating on his wife by hiring women with her likeness.