Overview
- A staged White House photograph intended to feature press secretary Karoline Leavitt instead shows her holding a newspaper with a Pat Oliphant cartoon that depicts President Trump in a Nazi uniform.
- The picture was taken for an Independent Women's Forum piece highlighting White House makeup artist Brittany Danielle and was published alongside the profile.
- Sharp-eyed social accounts including PatriotTakes circulated the image and ridiculed Leavitt for posing with the visible cartoon, which quickly dominated online discussion.
- The cartoon is by Pat Oliphant, whose recent death and long history of blunt political caricature were cited by outlets as key context for why the image drew intense attention.
- No official White House clarification or response has been reported and the episode has left the original human-interest feature overshadowed while raising questions about White House publicity oversight.