{"id":2500333,"date":"2025-10-17T23:45:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T03:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-responds-to-press-inquiries-with-your-mom-jokes\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T23:45:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T03:45:35","slug":"white-house-responds-to-press-inquiries-with-your-mom-jokes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-responds-to-press-inquiries-with-your-mom-jokes\/","title":{"rendered":"White House responds to press inquiries with &#8216;your mom&#8217; jokes"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhite-house-responds-to-press-inquiries-with-your-mom-jokes%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2500333&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The White House press team responded with humor when asked by HuffPost about who chose Budapest as the location for President Donald Trump&#8217;s planned meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Instead of a formal answer, press secretary Karoline Leavitt and communications director Steven cheung jokingly replied, &#8220;Your mom did.&#8221; This <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >unconventional response sparked mixed reactions<\/a> on social media, with conservatives praising the white House for trolling the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/officer-fired-for-donating-25-to-kyle-rittenhouse-defense-fund\/\" title=\"Officer Fired For Donating  To Kyle Ritten... Defense Fund\u00a0\">left-wing outlet<\/a>, while liberals criticized the replies as immature. The summit in Budapest aims to discuss ending the war in Ukraine, following Trump&#8217;s optimistic declaration about his recent call with Putin and his meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Trump suggested there is still a significant chance for peace without further escalation of the conflict.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">White House responds to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-delegation-demands-answers-amid-escalating-biden-border-crisis\/\" title=\"GOP delegation demands answers amid escalating Biden border crisis\">press inquiries<\/a> with &lsquo;your mom&rsquo; jokes<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2375079\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/white-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">White House <\/a>press team opted for an unorthodox approach to answering a media inquiry about President Donald Trump&rsquo;s upcoming meeting with Russian President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/vladimir-putin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Vladimir Putin<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Trump revealed Thursday he is planning to hold in-person talks with Putin in<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3853332\/trump-putin-to-meet-hungary-end-inglorious-war-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> Budapest, Hungary<\/a>, about seeking to end the Ukraine war.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/premium\/3849115\/british-espionage-slow-horses-season-five-review\/\">British espionage blues<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/premium\/3849113\/review-a-house-of-dynamite-nuclear-war\/\">The end of the world as we fear it: Review of &#8216;A House of Dynamite&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/magazine-obituary\/3853229\/obituary-diane-keaton-1946-2025-annie-hall-woody-allen\/\">Diane Keaton, 1946-2025<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>When <em>HuffPost<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/trump-putin-budapest_n_68f165cce4b017d85b74991b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em> <\/em>reached out<\/a> to the Trump administration to inquire about who had picked Budapest as the location for the summit, officials handed out unconventional replies.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&ldquo;Your mom did,&rdquo; White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>White House communications director Steven Cheung gave the same response, saying, &ldquo;Your mom,&rdquo; according to the outlet.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Reactions on X to the incident varied widely across party lines.<\/p>\n<p>Conservatives <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JesseBWatters\/status\/1979347828020297849\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">hailed<\/a> the president&rsquo;s team for trolling the left-wing outlet.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Congratulations to HuffPost for eliciting the most legendary response from the White House,&rdquo; one user<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SteveGuest\/status\/1979267771083993480\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> wrote<\/a>. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m sorry, but that&rsquo;s hilarious,&rdquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MZHemingway\/status\/1979358346768716285\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> another<\/a> added.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Im sorry but that&rsquo;s hilarious. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pHMtYA2uwZ\">https:\/\/t.co\/pHMtYA2uwZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mollie (@MZHemingway) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MZHemingway\/status\/1979358346768716285?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 18, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Liberals found Leavitt and Cheung&rsquo;s responses less funny.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;A coordinated strategy of adolescents,&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/avidseries\/status\/1979247529234465275\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote one<\/a>. &ldquo;Totally on brand for this White House,&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RpsAgainstTrump\/status\/1979282611819164028\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">another said<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Exact details about the Trump-Putin Budapest summit remain unclear. However, Trump sounded optimistic about the meeting this week, which he announced following a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3854011\/trump-putin-call-dashes-zelensky-hopes-tomahawks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-the-media-pushed-the-now-debunked-find-the-fraud-story-in-their-bid-to-attack-trump\/\" title=\"How The Media Pushed The Now Debunked \u2018Find The Fraud\u2019 Story In Their Bid To Attack Trump\">lengthy phone call<\/a><\/a> with Putin.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3855261\/zelensky-floats-drones-tomahawks-white-house-lunch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>ZELENSKY FLOATS DRONES FOR TOMAHAWKS DURING WHITE HOUSE LUNCH MEETING WITH TRUMP<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The president said &ldquo;great progress&rdquo; was made during the call about the Ukraine war, which sparked in 2022 and has threatened to trigger wider conflict with NATO. During a meeting at the White House the following day with Putin&rsquo;s arch nemesis, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Trump declined to give Kyiv long-range missiles it had requested for use against Russia, suggesting that there remains a significant chance to make peace without further escalating the war.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The war in the Middle East was far more complicated. We got that one done,&rdquo; Trump said, referencing his recent work to broker peace in Gaza. &ldquo;I think we have a good chance.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House answers press questions with &#8216;your mom&#8217; jokes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3142,"featured_media":2500334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AP25281723144891-1.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[50380,5894,65443,32127],"class_list":["post-2500333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-humor-2","tag-politics","tag-press-inquiries","tag-white-house"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AP25281723144891-1.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2500333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2500333"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2500333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2500337,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2500333\/revisions\/2500337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2500334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2500333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2500333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2500333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}