--- title: GOP Aide Elizabeth Lauten, Who Criticized Obama Daughters, to Resign description: Lauten later deleted that post and penned an apology on Facebook canonical: https://time.com/3611907/gop-aide-criticized-obama-daughters-resign/ author: NBC News article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-12-01T16:42:17.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T02:28:28.025Z article:section: Politics og:title: GOP Aide Elizabeth Lauten, Who Criticized Obama Daughters, to Resign og:description: Lauten later deleted that post and penned an apology on Facebook og:url: https://time.com/3611907/gop-aide-criticized-obama-daughters-resign/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt67bf55b31d8ea9af/69876b8fcd68481a080984e4/elizabeth-lauten.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Climber og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: GOP Aide Elizabeth Lauten, Who Criticized Obama Daughters, to Resign twitter:description: Lauten later deleted that post and penned an apology on Facebook twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt67bf55b31d8ea9af/69876b8fcd68481a080984e4/elizabeth-lauten.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # GOP Aide Elizabeth Lauten, Who Criticized Obama Daughters, to Resign by [NBC News](https://time.com/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Dec 1, 2014 4:42 PM UTC  Elizabeth Lauten from the office of Rep. Stephen Fincher, R-Tenn. Elizabeth Lauten from the office of Rep. Stephen Fincher, R-Tenn.Tom Williams—CQ-Roll Call/Getty Images by [NBC News](https://time.com/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Dec 1, 2014 4:42 PM UTC The Republican congressional aide who wrote a widely-disseminated Facebook post criticizing President Barack Obama’s daughters says that she is resigning today. Elizabeth Lauten, the communications director for Tennessee Rep. Steven Fincher, told NBC News by phone Monday that her resignation is already “in the works.” In a post that went viral over the weekend, Lauten wrote that Sasha and Malia Obama should have shown “a little class” during the annual Thanksgiving ceremony to pardon two turkeys at the White House. “Rise to the occasion,” she wrote. “Act like being in the White House matters to you. Dress like you deserve…” [Read the rest of the story from our partners at NBC News](http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/first-read/elizabeth-lauten-gop-aide-who-criticized-obama-daughters-resign-n258931?cid=par-time-article%5F20141002) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3611907/gop-aide-criticized-obama-daughters-resign/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3611907/gop-aide-criticized-obama-daughters-resign/"},"headline":"GOP Aide Elizabeth Lauten, Who Criticized Obama Daughters, to Resign","datePublished":"2014-12-01T16:42:17.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T02:28:28.025Z","description":"Lauten later deleted that post and penned an apology on Facebook","url":"https://time.com/3611907/gop-aide-criticized-obama-daughters-resign/","keywords":["White House","Obama","malia obama","People"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt67bf55b31d8ea9af/69876b8fcd68481a080984e4/elizabeth-lauten.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"NBC News","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nbc-news/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt67bf55b31d8ea9af/69876b8fcd68481a080984e4/elizabeth-lauten.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Climber","caption":"Climber","creditText":"Tom Williams—CQ-Roll Call/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3611907/gop-aide-criticized-obama-daughters-resign/","name":"GOP Aide Elizabeth Lauten, Who Criticized Obama Daughters, to Resign"}}]}] ```