Karoline Leavitt Calls Out Gen Z for ‘Silver Spoons’ Mindset and Laziness on Fox News

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt appeared on Fox News Thursday and offered some pointed criticism of her own generation during a conversation with host Jesse Watters on his Primetime show.

Watters opened the segment by noting that some young people in their twenties have never held real jobs yet still complain about things being too expensive. He asked Leavitt whether she thought that kind of complaining was gaining any real traction. She agreed and said unfortunately it is, because Gen Z and those younger than her have been raised with silver spoons in their mouths and have gotten everything handed to them.

Leavitt argued that this mindset clashes with the values the country was built on. In her view America has always been about meritocracy and hard work, about rolling up your sleeves and pulling yourself up by your bootstraps to reach the American dream. She said those principles need to be protected at all costs.

The talk also covered education. Leavitt said she has heard from plenty of parents who are moving their children into private schools or Christian institutions because they do not want what she described as communist and liberal ideas being pushed on them in public schools.

She tied that trend directly to the Trump administration’s push for school choice across the country. The goal, she explained, is to make sure kids are taught to love America as the greatest country in the history of the world.