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Karoline Leavitt Melts Down Over ICE Getting Flipped Off But Ignores Trump Giving Auto Worker The Bird

The Trump administration has a severe double standard when it comes to middle fingers. It is fine in their view for Trump to flip off an auto worker, but an atrocity when it happens to ICE.

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Jan 15, 2026
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Karoline Leavitt’s propaganda hour disguised as a press briefing took a hypocritical turn on Thursday when Leavitt nearly broke into hysterics as she tried to frame peace protesters as agitiators because they flipped off ICE.

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Leavitt said while displaying images:

 If you look at some of the images out of Minneapolis last night, look at this vehicle. Look at what it says. It says F ICE You have these individuals who are putting their middle finger proudly. So at the camera, another ICE ndividual a vehicle that was vandalized last night by these left wing agitators.

People don’t do this without encouragement from people in power who make them feel like it’s okay.

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Who could possibly be modeling this behavior for the American people, so that they get the idea that flipping someone off is an acceptable response?

 

Oh.

Leavitt’s theatrics come shortly after Donald Trump flipped off and mouthed the words F-you to an autoworker in a Ford plant who shouted at him that the president was a “pedo protector.”

TJ Sabula, a 40-year-old line worker at the Ford plant in Dearborn, MI, was the person whom Trump flipped off.

Sabula is a political Independent who has never voted for Trump, but has voted for other Republicans in the past.

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