{"id":96037,"date":"2026-10-17T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T06:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.opinionpublica.tv\/portada\/?p=96037"},"modified":"2026-10-16T19:32:49","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T01:32:49","slug":"katie-zacharia-is-ousted-after-5-days-as-white-house-press-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.opinionpublica.tv\/portada\/katie-zacharia-is-ousted-after-5-days-as-white-house-press-secretary\/","title":{"rendered":"Katie Zacharia is ousted after 5 days as White House press secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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President Trump\u2019s new press secretary, Katie Zacharia, was forced out of her role Friday after five days on the job, a rare reversal by the White House that capped a week of upheaval.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ms. Zacharia, who had gained Mr. Trump\u2019s attention as a conservative commentator, had gotten off to a shaky start with her first and only press briefing on Tuesday. She largely read off a script and ended questioning after just five and a half minutes. That was followed by an onslaught of headlines about whether she had misrepresented herself as a lawyer \u2014 the president called her \u201can attorney\u201d \u2014 despite failing her bar exam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsequent interviews she gave in the media, in which she tried to defend herself by pointing out how unprepared she had been to go before the Washington press corps, also went poorly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, after days of unrelenting press coverage, the Trump administration decided on Friday afternoon to do something it almost never does: It folded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Trump was walking across the South Lawn to depart for a midterm rally in Georgia when he stopped to talk to reporters, telling them how he\u2019d just encouraged his press secretary to \u201creconsider\u201d her new job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHonestly, if I were you, I\u2019d reconsider,\u201d he told the reporters, recounting his conversation with her. \u201cKatie, do you need this? I don\u2019t think you need this.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Three people familiar with the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe internal discussions, said Ms. Zacharia was ousted from her role as press secretary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The president told reporters that Ms. Zacharia might continue to work for him \u201cin some form, but maybe a more pleasant form.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Later Friday, Steven Cheung, the White House communications director, said that Ms. Zacharia would be \u201ctransitioning into a new role that will be announced at a later date.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She had just started on Monday, and hadn\u2019t even moved to Washington yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was last Friday that the president offered her the job. A little-known, unpaid Fox News commentator with whom many in the White House were unfamiliar, she was a surprise pick. While Ms. Zacharia did have the support of Natalie Harp, the powerful West Wing aide who rarely leaves the president\u2019s side, others in the building believed her debut had been a disaster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She was not a deft communicator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She had represented herself as a lawyer in the news media, but when asked repeatedly by a New York Times reporter on the South Lawn of the White House to say in which state she had passed a bar exam, she twice replied, \u201cWhen I moved to China.\u201d She later told The Times that she had simply misheard the question \u2014 even though the president had repeated the reporter\u2019s question to her while standing feet away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The end was nigh after she appeared on Fox News on Thursday night to be interviewed by the president\u2019s friend Sean Hannity, who asked her a few tough questions and treated her with rare skepticism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The reception she got on Friday morning on \u201cFox and Friends\u201d wasn\u2019t exactly friendly, either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDo you wish you would have disclosed to the president about the bar and not passing the bar?\u201d one of the hosts, Lawrence Jones, asked her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWell, Lawrence,\u201d Ms. Zacharia responded, \u201cthose questions weren\u2019t asked.\u201d On Wednesday, Mr. Cheung had posted that \u201cup and down the White House, everyone has been thoroughly impressed with Katie in just a few short days on the job.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt the end of this second term, she\u2019ll be remembered as one of the all-time greats,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She may be remembered as having had what seems to be the shortest tenure in the history of the White House press secretary job: five days and one briefing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Mr. Trump\u2019s first term, Anthony Scaramucci was fired as the White House communications director (a different role from press secretary) just 10 days after he was hired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After news of Ms. Zacharia\u2019s ouster broke, Mr. Scaramucci posted on X: \u201cRecords are made to be broken. But I take no pleasure in other people\u2019s pain.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ousting of the administration\u2019s top spokeswoman was the culmination of a week of remarkable turmoil inside Trumpworld.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kimberly Guilfoyle, the ambassador to Greece, was fired on television on Tuesday (during Ms. Zacharia\u2019s only briefing). The president spent time in the Oval Office trying to get to the bottom of a vicious fight between two of his loyalists, Richard Grenell and Alina Habba Mildon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paolo Zampolli, a longtime Trump confidant who claimed to have introduced the president to his wife, was pushed out at the State Department after one of his internecine feuds spilled into the press. And the daughter of Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff, and others in her circle, came under scrutiny for their moneymaking overseas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n