Karoline Leavitt Explains Donald Trump’s Bizarre Perfume Habit After He Spritzes Syrian President At White House – “Happens All the Time”
Donald Trump’s press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, has revealed another strange habit of her boss, and people online can’t stop talking about it. Trump is already known for being very focused on his appearance. He often uses heavy bronzer on his face, which gives his skin an unnatural orange tone that people constantly joke about. He’s also been accused of exaggerating his height. But this new detail about him might be even weirder than the makeup or the height claims.
For years, there have been rumours on the internet that Donald Trump has strong body odor and tries to hide it by using a lot of perfume and cologne. Those rumours picked up again after a very unusual moment during a recent White House meeting with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa on November 11. The meeting itself was already controversial. Al-Sharaa has a very dark history: U.S. intelligence once labeled him a foreign terrorist, and before he rose to power as Syria’s unelected leader, there was a $10 million bounty on his head.
So, many Americans were already shocked that Trump invited him to the White House at all. But then things got even stranger. During the visit, Trump took out a bottle of perfume with a floral scent and sprayed it on the Syrian President. This wasn’t a quick joke or a small, private moment. It happened in front of cameras and staff, and clips of it spread across social media almost immediately.
People online were stunned. Many viewers didn’t know how to react to watching the U.S. President casually spritz perfume on a foreign leader in the White House. Some thought it was rude, others thought it was funny, and a lot of people just found it completely bizarre. The video went viral, and users on X (formerly Twitter) started asking: Why did he do that? Was he making fun of the Syrian President? Or was something else going on?
Karoline Leavitt, who serves as Trump’s White House Press Secretary, later tried to explain the moment. She appeared on the “Pod Force One” podcast, where the host directly asked her about it. The host said something along the lines of: “The Syrian President came in, and Trump sprayed perfume all over him. Did he smell?”
Instead of acting surprised, Leavitt responded like this was nothing new. She said, “That happens all the time.” She went on to explain that it wasn’t just this one guest. According to her, she has seen Trump spray perfume on other foreign leaders, on members of his own cabinet, and even on her personally. She described it as if Trump simply likes showing off his “wonderful scents,” suggesting that, in his mind, this is a kind of playful, personal gesture rather than an insult.
Her attempt to defend him, however, didn’t calm people down. In fact, it raised even more questions. If he does this “all the time,” what does that say about him? Many people didn’t find it charming at all. Instead, they connected this behaviour to the long-running rumor that Trump has strong body odor and tries to drown it out with cologne. So rather than seeing it as generosity or a quirky habit, some people saw it as a sign that he is very insecure about how he smells.
On X, users began sharing their own theories in sarcastic and mocking posts. One person joked that Trump might be smelling his own body odor and mistakenly blaming other people for it, which is why he keeps spraying perfume on men around him. In their view, he might think the bad smell is coming from someone else, when it’s actually coming from himself.
Another person wrote a comment that basically said: “Tell me Trump is trying to cover up his bad smell with dramatic perfume gestures without directly saying he stinks.” The idea was that his behaviour speaks for itself. He doesn’t have to confess anything; his constant spraying is already a big clue.
A third person insisted that the perfume isn’t really for the guests at all. They argued that the real purpose is to mask Trump’s own scent, and the guests just happen to be in the line of fire. In other words, they believed this whole thing was less about Trump being generous and more about him desperately trying to control how the room smells whenever he’s in it.
Someone else shared a collage of photos showing different people standing near Trump with their hands over their noses or making uncomfortable facial expressions. The images were posted with the suggestion that these people were reacting to an unpleasant odor. Although there is no proof of that, the collection of pictures fit neatly into the internet’s running joke that Trump smells bad and uses way too much perfume.
So, instead of clearing things up, Karoline Leavitt’s explanation only added fuel to the fire. By saying that Trump sprays perfume on people “all the time,” she turned what could have been written off as one awkward moment into a repeated pattern. To his supporters, this might just seem like one of his odd personal quirks. But to his critics and many observers online, it made him look even stranger and more self-absorbed.
The original article ends by tagging Donald Trump and Karoline Leavitt and then moves into the usual website features, like the comment section where readers can leave their thoughts, along with ads and links to other stories. But the main takeaway from the piece is simple: Trump’s perfume habit, especially the moment where he sprayed the Syrian President at the White House, has become yet another viral talking point — and even his own press secretary admits this isn’t a one-time thing, it’s something he does regularly.
