White House mouthpiece Karoline Leavitt was holding a lie to the press session when she was asked about the French wanting the Statue of Liberty back. Her response was pure, unmitigated, arrogant stupidity:
REPORTER: So, is President Trump going to send the Statue of Liberty back to France?
LEAVITT: Absolutely not. And my advice to that unnamed, low-level French politician would be to remind them that it’s only because of the United States of America that the French are not speaking German right now. So, they should be very grateful to our great country.
I think that Archie Bunker once said that exact same thing.
If Leavitt had actually gone to school and paid attention to something besides her reflection in a mirror, she would have picked up on the fact that the United States owes France a lot more than they owe us.
Yes, it is true that the United States, along with Great Britain, Russia and other members of the Allied nations beat back Nazi Germany.
But it is also true that without France, there wouldn’t even be a United States to begin with. They bankrolled a large part of the Revolutionary War, including sending troops, warships, and fighting England on several fronts. Did she think the Flying Spaghetti Monster just dropped the country in the middle of the ocean as is?
It was France that built and shipped the Statue of Liberty to the United States as a symbol of freedom, something that the current administration is shitting all over.
And most school children learned, when schools were still allowed to teach history, that the Louisiana Purchase was from France and doubled the size of the country at the time.
The worst part of her little idiotic diatribe is that she has the look of smug satisfaction that can only come from being confidently stupid. When she hits the find out stage, and she will, it’s going to be delicious to watch.
Leavitt: “It’s only because of the United States of America that the French aren’t speaking German right now.” pic.twitter.com/xWI60MobrE
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 17, 2025