{"id":165548,"date":"2025-08-22T04:18:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T04:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/165548\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T04:18:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T04:18:11","slug":"karoline-leavitt-gets-suspiciously-unpatriotic-birthday-present","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/165548\/","title":{"rendered":"Karoline Leavitt Gets Suspiciously Unpatriotic Birthday Present"},"content":{"rendered":"

Donald Trump wants Americans to buy American, but Karoline Leavitt appeared to score a French luxury gift for her birthday.<\/p>\n

White House staff threw a surprise birthday party for the press secretary Thursday, captured in a video posted to Instagram by Trump\u2019s communications advisor Margo Martin. <\/p>\n

Leavitt, who turns 28 on Sunday and is the youngest person in U.S. history to hold her post, happily exclaims, \u201cThis is so embarrassing,\u201d as she enters a festively decorated room while staffers sing \u201cHappy Birthday.\u201d <\/p>\n

\"LouisLouis Vuitton’s gift bags are easily recognizable by their saffron-colored paper and dark blue handles. Edward Berthelot\/Getty Images\/Margo Martin\/Instagram <\/p>\n

Balloons and several gifts are arranged on a chair, one of which appears to be a gift bag from French designer brand Louis Vuitton\u2014easily recognizable by its saffron-colored paper and dark blue handles.<\/p>\n

The White House did not immediately respond to the Daily Beast\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n

Trump has waged a global trade war, slapping tariffs on longtime allies to reshape international commerce in favor of American companies. Louis Vuitton\u2014as it\u2019s name suggests\u2014is not among them.<\/p>\n

\"PresidentPresident Donald Trump wants Americans to buy American. The U.S. and the European Union recently announced a sweeping trade deal that imposed 15 percent tariffs on most European goods. Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images <\/p>\n

The designer brand is owned by LVMH, a French luxury goods conglomerate based in Paris and chaired by French billionaire Bernard Arnault\u2014a friend of Trump\u2019s. <\/p>\n

However, Louis Vuitton was not spared from Trump\u2019s taxes on goods coming from the European Union. When the president implemented a 15 percent baseline tariff rate, the company resorted to increasing the price<\/a> of one of its most popular handbags in the U.S. <\/p>\n

Leavitt, who frequently flaunts her Louis Vuitton purchases on Instagram, may have found the birthday gift a welcome reprieve from the cost of her administration\u2019s tariffs.<\/p>\n

\"NEWFrench businessman Bernard Arnault, CEO and chairman of LVMH, is a friend of the president, but his luxury brands weren’t spared from Trump’s tariffs. Drew Angerer\/Drew Angerer\/Getty Images <\/p>\n

Depending on the contents of the bag, however, the gift may have also been manufactured in the U.S., where Louis Vuitton operates three<\/a> workshops. <\/p>\n

According to its website<\/a>, the American workshops only contribute to its leather goods collections, with other items, such as its ready-to-wear and jewelry collections, made in France, Spain, Italy, and Switzerland. <\/p>\n

In July, Arnault announced plans for a new Louis Vuitton factory near Dallas, Texas. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Trump wants Americans to buy American, but Karoline Leavitt appeared to score a French luxury gift for…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":165549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[95257,185,77,171,8133,35588,2175,67,132,68,5223],"class_list":{"0":"post-165548","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-bernard-arnault","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-donald-j-trump","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-karoline-leavitt","13":"tag-louis-vuitton","14":"tag-tariffs","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-white-house"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115070494704579513","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}