By；Quno.Pu
In today’s political theater, the spokesperson is the face of the system itself, the most visible embodiment of the dialogue between state and world. In the Trump 2.0 administration, the mouth at the White House podium belongs to Karoline Claire Leavitt.
She is not like Vance, who once openly denounced Trump but later turned pragmatic to step into the power center; nor is she like Rubio, who bends and compromises for political survival, abandoning ideals. The “badness” of Vance and Rubio can be called a rational decay. But Ms. Leavitt’s relationship with Trump is pure love, a completely different species in the political ecosystem. Her “loyalty” almost glows, yet she has zero reverence for facts; her speech flows endlessly, but its content is as hollow as the wind; her attacks on the media are not strategic — they are instinctive reflexes. This is not rational decay; it is reason exhausted, words empty.
Blind loyalty is foolish; lying with open eyes is evil. Caroline perfectly fuses the two, rising to a central role in the empire’s propaganda machine in a manner almost comically theatrical. And the truly alarming part? This happens in today’s America, visible in every live or recorded press briefing, in every like beneath the clips.
Because it is an absolute numerical proof of a once-great empire’s cognitive decline.
While people in the developing world still envy America’s “beacon of freedom,” what they see is a woman with a vocabulary smaller than a northeastern Chinese grandma’s, representing the world’s foremost power. In China, even the “Wolf Warriors” retain traces of training; in America, Caroline has abandoned even the basics of rhetoric, relying solely on facial management and emotional mimicry. This is not merely a sign of decline — if we imagine America’s military and technological edge as a beautiful performing monkey, Caroline’s White House press conferences are the monkey’s rear end in close-up, taking its final bow.
Step back and think: this is historically traceable. Every empire’s decline follows a standard path: from Rome’s senators to Byzantine eunuchs, from the British Empire’s knights to that final governor dancing the foxtrot in a colony. Decline is never a sudden roar; it is a repeated absurdification of power symbols and a collapse of aesthetic judgment.
Caroline is Not the Culprit — She’s a Signal
She represents a new type of American elite: no need to understand the world, only to please the leader; no need to defend truth, only to attack questioning; no need to assume responsibility, only to perform loyalty. In such a field of power, “intelligence” becomes inappropriate, “professionalism” a burden, while blind loyalty plus aggression is the key to advancement. And she indeed fulfills her mission — not to make America stronger, but to provide a heavy metal harmony to Trump 2.0’s self-praise.
Section 2: From Wolf Warriors to Caroline — Who’s More Ridiculous?
To Chinese liberal intellectuals, “Wolf Warrior diplomacy” once epitomized shame: coarse tone, fractured logic, arrogant posture, like a thug trying to claim the moral high ground. Yet ironically, when Caroline appears in the White House briefing room, this “race of linguistic decay” is no longer China’s alone.
Compared with Zhao Lijian and his peers, Caroline lacks a rich repertoire of aggressive vocabulary and the seasoned art of tactical ambiguity. She is more like a faithful performer turning the ‘Trump Lexicon’ into her personal stage script: no script preparation, no concern for emotional causality. You ask a question — she attacks; you cite facts — she roars “fake news”; you quote authorities — she glares and says, “The president has made his position very clear.”
Yes, the Chinese Wolf Warriors remain unappealing because they carry the scent of Orwell’s Ministry of Truth; but at least they pretend to be discussing policy. Caroline seems to scorn logic entirely, reduced to a three-step dance of anti-media, pro-Trump, anti-democracy, spinning and leaping, apparently closed-eyed in self-indulgence.
It is as if two uncontrolled nations’ mouths are shouting at each other — one using a script, the other pure emotion; one excessively packaged, the other completely bare.
And the contrast? It makes the Wolf Warriors look excessively rational.