--- 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=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3744 og:image:height: 2106 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=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # GOP Aide Elizabeth Lauten, Who Criticized Obama Daughters, to Resign > Sponsored content. 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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. 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