Overview
- At Tuesday’s briefing, AFP’s Danny Kemp asked if the White House has a social media problem; Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said no and noted no change in policy.
- Vice President JD Vance’s X account posted, then deleted, a message from Armenia that referenced the Armenian genocide; his office said a staffer posted it in error and was not with the delegation.
- The Armenian National Committee of America condemned the deletion as denialist, while CNN reported the wording conflicted with the administration’s practice of avoiding the term.
- Last week, President Trump’s Truth Social account shared a video that briefly depicted Barack and Michelle Obama as apes; the post was later removed with an unnamed staffer blamed.
- Leavitt initially defended the video as a meme and called criticism fake outrage, and Trump later said he approved the post but claimed he had not seen the offensive clip.