Some career moves are a leap across the canyon. Karoline Leavitt joining Fox News is more like walking from the kitchen into the living room, and the Karoline Leavitt memes understood that within minutes. The former White House press secretary, who left the job at the end of August, will start as an on-air Fox News contributor on Nov. 1.
The AP report that Karoline Leavitt is joining Fox News points out she isn’t the first Trump press secretary to make the walk. Kayleigh McEnany joined the network in 2021 and is still there, which makes this less a twist and more a well-worn path with good lighting.
The Gentle Reactions Came First
The mildest crowd treated the news like a shrug with a headline attached. Billy Binion said we are way too desensitized to the revolving door between government and media, which is fair, and also the calmest anyone sounded all day.
My favorite gentle take came from a Redditor who said calling it leaving the administration felt generous, since it’s really more of an internal transfer. I’ve had an internal transfer once. I got a new badge and kept the same microwave, and honestly I think about that microwave more than the job.
Then the Jokes Got Sharper
Others skipped words and went straight to Larry David reaction clips, which is how I respond to most news now. The writers sharpened up from there. Paul Rudnick posted that she reportedly underwent a rigorous polygraph test, and when she failed it completely, she was hired, a joke built so tight it should come with a hard hat.
Another poster went digging through the network’s legal history and brought up its famous defamation settlement, which is the internet’s version of reading the Yelp reviews out loud at the table.
The Karoline Leavitt Memes Turned Into Fiction
At the far end, people stopped comparing it to cable news and started comparing it to television shows. One Redditor answered with Firecracker from The Boys, the superhero satire’s in-house news anchor, sitting behind a Vought News Network desk like she’d been there the whole time.
And one poster reached for a horror movie comparison about Fox and the White House feeding each other that I will not be describing before lunch. It is the most unhinged reply in the pile, and it got the most nods, which says a lot about where we are as a species.
So that’s the walk from the kitchen to the living room, reviewed in full before she says a word on air. She starts Nov. 1. Somewhere a break room microwave is getting a new label, and I hope it’s a nice one.
Since we’re talking internal transfers, 27 Pete Hegseth Memes Cuz “Secretary Of Fart” Is A Thing Now is the same door swinging the other way, from a Fox studio to the Pentagon. And if the Larry David clips were your speed, Trump Wince Memes Turned One B-1 Flyover Into Instant Comedy runs on pure facial expression.
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Phil is one of Thunder Dungeon’s co‑founders, doubling as our resident meme analyst and dark‑room brainstormer. He specializes in trend‑spotting across social platforms and shapes the editorial calendar to keep our galleries fresh, topical, and worthy of your valuable procrastination.
