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Karoline Leavitt, 28, made the comments during an appearance on Fox News with Jesse Watters just days after returning from maternity leave following the birth of her second child.
Host Watters opened the segment by suggesting that young people complaining about the cost of living had never had real jobs. Leavitt was happy to agree.
“This generation, my generation, Gen Z and those younger than me, have been raised with just silver spoons in their mouths,” she said.
“Just getting everything handed to them, that’s not the values this country was built on.”
She attributed what she called a lack of work ethic to laziness and liberal indoctrination, before delivering her most pointed line of the interview.
“Send them to Cuba. Send them to Iran. They’ll want to come back real quick,” she said.
Comment met with instant backlash
The comments drew immediate pushback online, with many pointing out the irony of a 27-year-old, who is herself part of Gen Z, lecturing her own generation about having things handed to them.