Trump Spox Gets Snippy At NBC Reporter Over FEMA Chief’s Hurricane Season ‘Joke’

Tommy Christopher Jun 3rd, 2025, 2:59 pm

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt got testy when NBC News White House correspondent Kelly O’Donnell pressed her on acting FEMA Administrator David Richardson’s purported joke about hurricane season.

Several FEMA sources told Reuters they weren’t sure if Richardson was joking when he said he didn’t know Hurricane season was a thing, a remark that the Trump administration confirmed Richardson made but insisted was a joke.

At Tuesday’s White House press briefing , Leavitt responded to O’Donnell’s first question by repeating the word “serious” a lot, assuring her that these are “serious people who are taking this issue seriously” — seconds

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