White House communications director Steven Cheung gave the same response, saying, “Your mom,” according to the outlet. Reactions on X to the incident varied widely across party lines. Conservatives hailed the president’s team for trolling the left-wing outlet.

A simple query about Trump's choice of location for his upcoming meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin set off the president's spokespeople.

The White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt recently boasted about responding to a journalist’s concerns with a ‘your mom’ joke. Leavitt shared the interaction herself on social media and immediately faced backlash over the ‘childish’ lack of professionalism.

The White House press secretary told him “your mom” chose Budapest as the site for a meeting with Vladimir Putin. HuffPost’s senior White House correspondent says it’s all part of America’s slide toward autocracy,

That promise was broken when Putin invaded Crimea in 2014 and shattered entirely with the full-scale invasion in 2022. Now, more than three decades later, Trump wants to convene a peace summit in the very city where Ukraine once placed its faith in written guarantees.