Karoline Leavitt says Trump’s Truth Social posts come ‘straight from the horse’s mouth,’ blowing up the White House’s excuse

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt recently confirmed that every post on President Donald Trump‘s Truth Social account comes “straight from the horse’s mouth.” This statement directly contradicts the administration’s earlier claim that a staffer was responsible for posting a racist video on Trump’s account.

Leavitt made this admission during a press briefing. She was responding to a question about a Truth Social post in which President Trump criticized plans for a U.K. land deal involving the Chagos Islands. According to The Independent, when asked if the post represented an official shift in American policy, Leavitt was clear, saying the post “should be taken as the policy of the Trump administration.” 

She added, “When you see it on Truth Social, you know it’s directly from President Trump.” This directly contradicts what the White House had said just weeks earlier about a different post, a video showing Barack and Michelle Obama’s faces superimposed onto apes in a jungle, set to “The Lion Sleeps Tonight.”

Leavitt’s remarks have exposed a clear contradiction in the White House’s story about the Obama video post

That video sparked significant backlash, including from some of Trump’s own supporters in Congress. A White House official quickly said a staff member had “erroneously made the post,” and President Trump echoed this on Air Force One, telling reporters, “I gave it to the people, generally they’d look at the whole thing but I guess somebody didn’t.”

Many Republican officeholders publicly called for the unnamed staffer to be fired, but no one has been let go over the incident. This is not the first time the administration has faced pressure over a controversial statement, Trump has also been known to double down on remarks that drew widespread criticism.

While the White House has a large digital communications team managing official accounts on platforms like X, access to Trump’s personal Truth Social account is known to be very limited. It is generally restricted to Trump himself and a small number of close aides.

Daniel Scavino, a longtime confidant who has worked for Trump since his teenage years, has historically managed much of Trump’s personal social media activity. Scavino returned to the White House with Trump and is still considered one of the few aides trusted with access to the president’s personal accounts.

However, with Scavino now also running the White House Personnel Office, day-to-day management of Trump’s Truth Social posts is understood to often fall to Natalie Harp. Reports also suggest that Trump has been at odds with certain Republicans inside his own party, adding another layer of tension to the administration’s internal dynamics.

Harp, a former One America News Network personality, serves as a personal assistant to President Trump and works just outside the Oval Office. She is frequently the person to whom Trump dictates the text of Truth Social posts when he is not posting them himself. Her involvement in the Obama video post is unknown, and she has not been accused of making it.

The contradiction between Leavitt’s recent statement and the White House’s earlier explanation raises real questions about who controls President Trump’s social media accounts, and who the administration wants the public to believe is in charge.