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Katie Zacharia, the Trump administration’s new press secretary, didn’t have the best first day of labor. Zacharia gave her first press briefing, which lasted simply 14 minutes, on Tuesday, and it went so poorly that it reportedly left even Republicans questioning how lengthy she’ll final.
OMG she is brutally unhealthy at this pic.twitter.com/JHT0w0nzDz
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 13, 2026
WH Press Secretary Katie Zacharia delivers her opening remarks at first press briefing: “I’ve needed to work for him for a really very long time. I’m trying ahead to working with every of you as properly, particularly as we’re in the course of the midterm blitz.” pic.twitter.com/aTNHbqc6lM
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Zacharia is taking up for Karoline Leavitt, who resigned in August and is now set to affix Fox Information. Whereas Leavitt’s tenure as press secretary was marked by her hostility towards each the media and factual fact, she at the least appeared snug in her place. Zacharia, then again, stumbled via her introductions, which she appeared to learn from a printed script. At one level, she by accident referred to her husband as “my president.” She appeared to shock members of the media when she introduced that the administration had requested Kimberly Guilfoyle to resign as ambassador to Greece. Exterior of the briefing room, whereas she was answering questions with President Trump, a reporter requested the place Zacharia handed the bar examination, and he or she responded with, “Once I moved to China.”
To make issues worse, plainly Zacharia doesn’t have the unequivocal help of her Republican colleagues, per MS NOW. One nameless White Home official apparently admitted that she “acquired off on the improper foot,” including, “she must get significantly better, quick, in any other case she’ll break Scaramucci’s document.” (Anthony Scaramucci did a famously transient stint because the White Home’s press secretary throughout Trump’s first administration in 2017 — he was dismissed after simply 11 days.) One other official reportedly known as the briefing “tough throughout” and theorized that “The press and the administration are all in all probability pondering the identical factor: we miss Karoline.”
However Trump, at the least, “thought she was excellent.”
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