Donald Trump isnât just raging at âfake newsâ anymore.
Heâs raging at fake videos and very real late-night humiliation.

Because while AI-generated clips of White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt âdestroyingâ Jimmy Kimmel have been racking up millions of views online, the truth is brutally simple:
Karoline Leavitt has never been on Jimmy Kimmel Live.
But Jimmy Kimmel has absolutely torched her â and Trump â night after night on national TV.
And thatâs what really set Trump off.
It started with a digital mirage. Dozens of slick YouTube and TikTok clips appeared showing what looked like Leavitt sparring with Kimmel, storming off set, or getting âbannedâ after a fiery clash. One video claiming she was kicked off the show pulled in nearly 70,000 views. Another cleared 77,000. The comments were full of MAGA fans cheering her on as a culture-war hero.
There was just one problem: none of it ever happened.

Snopes debunked it. Sportske debunked it. ABC said there was no such episode. Even White House deputy press secretary Harrison Fields had to step in and call it fake. The âinterviewâ was AI mush â extra fingers, waxy faces, weird motion. Some channels even admitted in the fine print that the footage was âfictionalâ and âfor entertainment only.â
But while the fake version of Leavitt was triumphing in an imaginary showdown, the real Leavitt was getting shredded in a place that actually matters: Jimmy Kimmelâs monologue.
Kimmel started by acknowledging her historic title â the youngest White House press secretary in U.S. history at 27. Then he detonated the punchline.
He pointed out that Leavitt is married to Nicholas Riccio, a real estate magnate 32 years older than her. In one ruthless line, he suggested Trump didnât just hire a press secretary â he hired a familiar type: a much younger woman married to a much older real estate guy.
âSheâs married to a much older real estate magnate,â Kimmel said. âWhich, you know, in that case⊠youâre hired.â
The implication was clear: this wasnât about merit. It was about Trump seeing a reflection of his own life and rewarding loyalty over qualifications.
From there, Kimmel escalated. He dubbed her the âring leaderâ of a new, more circus-like White House, comparing her to Sean Spicer 2.0 â the press secretary destined to torch her own credibility defending obvious lies.
He didnât have to reach far for evidence.

In one early briefing, Leavitt parroted Trumpâs false claim that the military had âturned on the waterâ in California to deal with wildfires â a fantasy policy that doesnât exist in any serious emergency manual. Kimmel played the clip side by side with her Fox News defenses of Trumpâs âperfectâ MRI and Air Force One ramblings, mocking the way she insists everything is totally normal while the country watches chaos on screen.
And just when you thought it couldnât get weirder, Trump joined in â in the worst possible way.
Aboard Air Force One, asked if heâd ever replace Leavitt, Trump said no⊠then veered into creepy territory, commenting on her face and her lips âmoving like a machine gun.â Kimmel ran the clip and the studio audibly groaned as he asked the question everyone was thinking:
âDoes the White House have HR?â
Kimmel then connected it to a pattern: Trump calling Italyâs prime minister âa beautiful young woman,â his history of commenting on womenâs looks â even his own daughterâs. For Leavitt, it was devastating: her own boss objectifying her on a presidential plane, then being mocked for it in front of millions.
Even Leavittâs attempts to humanize herself became raw material.
At Thanksgiving, she brought her young son to the briefing room to meet the pardon-bound turkey, Wadd. A harmless, apolitical moment â until Kimmel played the clip and deadpanned: âSee? Fascists have fun, too.â He lumped her and Trump together as smiling faces on an increasingly authoritarian project.
Right-wing media scrambled to spin this. Leavitt went on Fox, Newsmax, and conservative podcasts calling Kimmel a âwackoâ with âterrible ratings,â accusing late-night hosts of hating women with conservative views. She painted herself as the victim of liberal Hollywood elitism.
But one detail cuts through the noise:
If Kimmel was really irrelevant, she wouldnât keep talking about him.
Thatâs the real irony. The AI videos made Leavitt look fearless â marching onto Kimmelâs stage, fighting back, walking off victorious. In reality, sheâs never faced him. Instead, sheâs had to watch from a distance as he dismantles her image piece by piece â her marriage, her spin, her bossâs creepy comments â while she responds from the safety of friendly studios.
The fake clips turned her into a warrior.
The real clips turned her into a punchline.
And somewhere in between, Donald Trump is furiously posting, begging Judge Aileen Cannon to keep Jack Smithâs report sealed, while screaming about âfake newsâ â even as AI fiction is the only thing making his press secretary look strong.
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