Karoline Leavitt casts stones from the imagined safety of her glass house

The Mouth of Moron, Karoline Leavitt, is mocking women for borrowing designer clothes while enthusiastically showing off her own

Image: Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt / White House Press Conference

The Mouth of Moron, Karoline Leavitt, is mocking women for borrowing designer clothes while enthusiastically showing off her own, which is mighty bold for someone standing inside a glass house furnished entirely with borrowed authority and expensive tailoring.

Leavitt’s scolding comes with a visual record. She routinely posts on social media wearing designer outfits and carrying handbags, treating fashion as a demonstration of status while pretending to sneer at it. The objection, it turns out, is not that designer clothes are frivolous or elitist. It is only that someone else might wear them without the correct kind of permission, or her husband’s dollars.

Hours after the swearing-in ceremony (which took place in the Old City Hall Station) the New York Post called out Duwaji for wearing $630 boots. White House Propaganda Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt then reposted the story to her Instagram, writing, “They want New Yorkers to hand over more than half their income to the government – while she wears designer boots worth your weekly paycheck. Classic Communists – rules for you, but not for them. There are reasons Communism has failed everywhere it’s been tried. Good luck, New York.” We’ll mention here, for no reason, that the average cost of lip fillers is $743, according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons.

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For what it’s worth, since entering the White House, Leavitt has been photographed with her Gucci watch, Jimmy Choo pumps (which cost $1,125), and a Louis Vuitton bag costing $2,130. None of these is reported to have been borrowed. In her first-ever press conference in January 2025, she wore an ensemble that some estimated to cost up to $900. And need I mention her multimillionaire husband, who’s twice her age?

As for Duwaji, she’s been First Lady for less than a week and has already exhibited more style and class than Leavitt has displayed in a year. On behalf of myself, New York, and America, I hope she only continues to serve looks—be they borrowed or bought.

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Borrowing clothing for public appearances is normal. Wearing designer fashion to signal relevance is also normal. What makes Leavitt’s outrage remarkable is its selective nature. Designer clothes are apparently fine when they reinforce her own image, but suspect when they allow other women to utilize the same cultural shorthand. The line she is drawing is not moral. It is territorial. It is gross. Karoline is saying she is wealthy and belongs in elite spaces, and considers Rama Duwaji an intruder.

Just because you like the view doesn’t mean your glass house becomes a fortress. Leavitt’s problem is not that she participates in the same system she mocks. It is that she seems to believe no one will notice.