Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Jimmy Choo and numerous other brands are a part of White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt’s closet. From her shades to heels, all are branded and yet, she wasted no time in pointing out to Zohran Mamdani’s wives’ $630 boots that she wore during her husband’s oath ceremony. Leavitt, 28, who is known for her love for high fashion quickly took to Instagram on Friday, to call out Rama Duwaji and Zohran Mamdani’s communist approach. “They want New Yorkers to hand over more than half their income to the government – while she wears designer boots worth your weekly paycheck.”
“Classic Communists – rules for you, but not for them. There are reasons Communism has failed everywhere it’s been tried. Good luck, New York,” she wrote with a sad face emoji in a story she posted on the social media app.
It was on Thursday that Mamdani took his oath as New York City’s 112th mayor. The new first couple of NYC stuck to their love for black with Duwaji, 28, wearing a pair of knee-length shorts, a dark Balenciaga wool coat and $630 Missta boots. Leavitt called out Duwaji on the high price of the boots, which as per her stylist are borrowed along with the rest of her outfit. “I’m just going to have to get comfortable with the fact that people on the internet do not understand what being lent a SAMPLE that has been borrowed before and will be borrowed again means but, you know what, that’s okay,” wrote New York stylist Gabriella Karefa-Johnson, who styled Duwaji, on her Substack. Her attack referenced Mamdani’s extremely popular yet controversial affordable housing agenda on which he campaigned last year in the mayoral race, defeating Trump-backed Andrew Cuomo. While he did not explicitly claim that New Yorkers would have to shell “half their income” as Leavitt wrote, his idea does suggest taxing the wealthy and increasing the city’s corporate tax rate to execute his agenda, which has many worried for their fate.
