Karoline Leavitt Says Younger Americans Complain Too Much and Suffer From ‘Laziness’ 

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt threw Gen Z under the bus, saying younger Americans have a certain “laziness” that is preventing them from making it in the working world.

Leavitt joined Thursday’s edition of Jesse Watters Primetime on Fox News, where the host noted recent Democratic primary victories by leftist candidates in New York and their popularity with younger voters.

Last week, former NYC Comptroller Brad Lander crushed Rep. Dan Goldman to earn the nomination in the 10th district. Union organizer Darializa Avila Chevalier defeated Rep. Adriano Espaillat in the 13th district. And state Rep. Claire Valdez trounced Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso in the 7th district. All three districts are solidly blue, and so the Mamdani-backed candidates are expected to win. The three winning candidates were endorsed by New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist.

The wins prompted President Donald Trump to declare, “The communists are finally making their move.”

“Some of these kids, and I call them kids because they’re in their 20s and they’ve never had real jobs and they’re complaining things are expensive in the U.S.,” Jesse Watters told Leavitt. “Yes, things are expensive when you don’t have a real job. Do you think that’s getting traction? Complaining?”

“Unfortunately, I do because this generation, my generation, I hate to say it, Gen Z and those younger than me have been raised with just silver spoons in their mouths, just getting everything handed to them,” Leavitt replied. “That’s not the values this country was built on. It was built on meritocracy and hard work, pulling up your sleeves, pulling yourself up from your bootstraps, and achieving the American dream, and we need to protect it with all we’ve got.”

“Is it laziness?” Watters asked before suggesting liberal professors are to blame.

Leavitt replied:

It’s laziness and it’s liberal indoctrination. You bring up a great point about our education system. However, I will say, silver lining, so many parents I talked to across the country are homeschooling, are turning to private education, are turning towards Christian schools across the country because they don’t want their children being taught these communist and liberal ideas slammed down their throat. It’s why President Trump and the White House have advocated so strongly for school choice across the country. We want kids to be taught to love our country. They should. It is the greatest country in the history of the world.

Watch above via Fox News.

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