{"id":129691,"date":"2026-01-23T22:12:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T22:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/129691\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T22:12:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T22:12:14","slug":"unhinged-florida-nurse-fired-after-foul-tiktok-rant-directed-towards-karoline-leavitt-goes-viral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/129691\/","title":{"rendered":"Unhinged Florida nurse fired after foul TikTok rant directed towards Karoline Leavitt goes viral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Florida hospital has terminated a nurse who said she hoped White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt gets severely injured during childbirth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a labor and delivery nurse, it gives me great joy to wish Karoline Leavitt a fourth-degree tear,\u201d Lexie Lawler, formerly a labor and delivery nurse at Baptist Health Boca Raton Regional Hospital, said in a video posted on TikTok.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope you f\u2014-ing rip from bow to stern and never s\u2014 normally again, you c\u2014,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement to Fox News Digital on Thursday, Patty Abril, director of media relations and strategic communications at Baptist Health, said Lawler is no longer employed at the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe comments made in a social media video by a nurse at one of our facilities do not reflect our values or the standards we expect of healthcare professionals,\u201d Abril said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cFollowing a prompt review, the individual is no longer employed by our health system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.95876289;display:block\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38269079\" width=\"566\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/lexi-lawler-florida-hospital-terminated-119541489.jpg\" alt=\"Lexi Lawler in a t-shirt that says &quot;Trump Sucks&quot; with a rainbow.\" class=\"wp-image-38269079\"  \/>Lexie Lawler was terminated by Baptist Health Boca Raton Regional Hospital for her comments on TikTok.  Lexi Lawler\/X<\/p>\n<p>Abril added, \u201cWhile we respect the right to personal opinions, there is no place in healthcare for language or behavior that calls into question a caregiver\u2019s ability to provide compassionate, unbiased care. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are committed to an environment that promotes trust, professionalism and respect for all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In December, Leavitt announced that she and her husband Nick <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/26\/us-news\/white-house-press-secretary-karoline-leavitt-expecting-baby-girl-in-may-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">are expecting a baby girl<\/a> due in May, who will join their first son, Niko, born in July 2024.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38269084\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/top-u-s-health-officials-118461804.jpg\" alt=\"Karoline Leavitt at a White House press briefing.\" class=\"wp-image-38269084\"  \/>Karoline Leavitt announced in December that she and her husband are expecting a baby girl.  Will Oliver \/ Pool via CNP \/ SplashNews.com<\/p>\n<p>Fox News Digital reached out to the White House for comment and contacted the hospital to reach Lawler and also attempted to reach her by phone.<\/p>\n<p>Lawler declined to comment on the matter to Newsweek.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Florida hospital has terminated a nurse who said she hoped White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt gets&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[22922,28,30,29,58018,19241,34468,3709,4278],"class_list":["post-129691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-firing","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-karoline-leavitt","tag-media","tag-nurses","tag-tiktok","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}