'Your mom...': The Pune-born reporter who makes Trump officials see red

Shirish V. Dáte (pronounced dah-tay), HuffPost’s veteran White House correspondent, didn’t think he’d end up as a meme. He’s 61, polite, and prone to quoting documents, not punchlines. Yet one text — “Your mom did” — fired off by Trump’s press secretary Karoline Leavitt, turned a legitimate question about US–Russia diplomacy into middle-school theatre. The White House communications director, Steven Cheung, chimed in with another “your mom,” confirming that the administration’s official language is now a mix of MAGA and meme.

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