White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt flew into a rage against The New York Times while doing damage control over 79-year-old President Donald Trump’s diminishing schedule.
On Nov. 15, the Times reported that the president has scaled back his official appearances by 39 percent—from 1,688 during the first 10 months of his first term to 1,029 this year. Their analysis found that Trump now starts his days far later than he did in his first term, with official events typically beginning after midday rather than at 10:30 a.m.
But Leavitt was having none of it.
The 28-year-old press secretary slammed the “fake news story” as “unequivocally false” at the end of Monday afternoon’s White House briefing.
“I want to point out one fake news story over the weekend before I let you all go,”

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