Katie Zacharia fired after five days as White House press secretary
13 hours ago by inclementimmigrant to c/news
Might even be better now .?
Name checks out
How little vetting must have gone into the decision? Dubious claims of being an attorney aside, if they had done any sort of mock press conference her complete lack of public speaking ability should have been evident.
But she looks like Ivanka? That's all the qualies she needed.
I don’t want to stick up for Ivanka since she is a garbage person but Katie looks like Temu Ivanka. Or like if you were going to make a porn that’s thinly veiled Ivanka fanfic. I’m not even a fashion girlie but that girl looks kind of a mess. Like she just rolled out of bed, smeared on some brows without her glasses and stumbled up to the podium. Don’t get me wrong, their insides will always be the ugliest insides ever, but those outsides are no prize. I’ve legit seen junkies on the onramp who looked more put together.
Trump isn't a fashion person. He doesn't care about fashion or how "put together" she looks. She's a thin, blonde, white woman with similar enough features to his daughter. Close enough for Trump
She has maralago face. A super high end one, but it's like looking at a robot.
Now that you mention it, I saw a junkie outside the WAWA In Ft Lauderdale that was way hotter, but emotionally the same kind of mess probably
That’s my kind of lady.
She actually wore a coat that said "I don't really care, do you?" if I recall
The vetting is Does she look like Trumps daughter Will she let Trump fuck her
That’s pretty much it
I think it comes from the conservative mindset that someone competent and capable in one field will be similarly competent and capable in other fields
Simply put: They believe in a hierarchy. Some people are imherently better at everything than others
She was competent and capable in her previous role of being an ass kisser. Because she was able to butter Trump up, it was assumed she would be good at any role, and she had "the look" Trump wanted (she looked like his daughter)
If you wm has skills for this job (or maybe you already do) would you be willing to apply of the last person quit because the president used her as decoy when there was a real threat.
I think only dumb people would still be interested. Looks like they had to wait to even find her.
Oh man, she only lasted half a mooch.
Idk, 5 business days seems like a full working mooch?
A mooch is 11 regular days so she's really not even a full half mooch.
I figure a Zacharia is the metric equivalent...
Half a mooch is now a Zacharia
Maybe she had a job interview right after?
I could still make a great salad out of that.
Imagine if a Democrat administration had this scandal. Imagine Biden hiring this woman.
It's like the "only democrats have agency" thing. We as a society don't seem to hold republicans to any sort of standard. They're like a fire that burns or a plague that spreads. You can't expect a fire to be polite.
Except they're not an elemental force of nature. They're people. People with names and addresses and free will. They should be held accountable.
This really is Biden's fault if you get down to the basic facts...
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I'm getting to where I think a full Steven Cheung denial is the best possible endorsement of truth available. His tears of indignant rage just seem to light the last candle on the cake of whatever exposé is going around this time.
Big Cheungus!
Off to start her own podcast grift now I'm sure.
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5 days, isn't that only half a mooch?
.45 of a mooch. She's not even half the mooch he used to be.
I thought the mooch was a negative scalar value, though?
Sucked on that orange micro dick for 5 days work lmao
job interveiw kweschuns:
- Are you hot?
- Are you loyal to the One True God Donald J Trump?
Are you ok with incest roleplay?
Do you swallow?
Were you once normal looking and at least somewhat attractive but have since morphed into some weird jigsaw blowjob machine animatronic?
I bet the Turnip administration is really upset about the person whose job it is to communicate with the press was really distracting and ineffective. Now they'll have to waste more time looking for another with just a few short weeks until midterms. I bet they really hate that their pick is a relative nobody and convenient scapegoat. They probably really wanted to field questions about inflation, or oil prices, or food prices, or investments into Russia, or intentionally hamstringing Ukraine, or the Epstein files, or any of the insane things Turnip has said at recent rallies about his own health, or the superficial qualities of his supporters, or the bang up job RFK is doing with measles, or their targeting of political rivals, or their waivering support in traditionally rock solid strong holds, or that list of ballroom doners WP just released. Yup, I bet they're really embarrassed. We should keep focusing on the card we picked, surely the magician wont use misdirection.
In all fairness, if you know going to be asked tough questions, you want a propagandist that can gaslight on the spot, not a slackjaw going "DURRRRRRRRR, me laaaawwwwwyerrrrrrr HURRRRRR"
Ah well, valuing loyalty > competence strikes again, shocking nobody. I might actually watch SNL this weekend, though.
She was repulsively effective.
Its crazy she thought she could get away with lying about her degrees in a job thats so high profile. From far away she does look a bit like Ivanka, who trump has said he wants to have sex with, so I imagine thats why she was hired.
Between the way he talks about Ivanka, the way he interacts with her in public, and those creepy-as-fuck pictures of the two of them together, it was already obvious to anyone with half a brain that he desperately wants to bone her
He literally admitted that "If she wasn't my daughter, perhaps I would be dating her."
This week the Washington Post released an exposé of the donors to the ballroom fund. You know, the one Trump swore would be used to pay for the new ballroom project that he would help fund himself. The one that never abided by actual donation laws but remains controlled by a PAC that steers the cash into a private account belonging to Trump, all with zero transparency or oversight. The one that has taken in over $350 million in unnamed donations so far. That one.
Absent from the list is Trump himself, who has said that he is helping to pay for the project.
Later in the article:
But the documents show that the vast majority of the funds raised came from companies and wealthy individuals with interests before the federal government.
Companies or executives of firms that have had contracts with the federal government during Trump’s second term accounted for about half of the total, The Post found.
It's well worth reading for the donor list alone, but those are the highlights. This is the c/Politics discussion: it contains both the original WaPo link (paywalled) and free options to read the content.
in short :
President Trump’s new press secretary, Katie Zacharia, was fired Friday, after less than a week on the job, according to three people familiar with the matter.
Ms. Zacharia had gotten off to a bumpy start with her first and final press briefing on Tuesday, in which :
1- she largely read off a script and
2- (she) ended questioning after just three queries (were addressed to her).
That was followed by an onslaught of headlines about whether she had misrepresented herself as a lawyer — the president called her “an attorney” — despite failing her bar exam.
https://www.nytimes.com/...
Something tells me this is the longest she has held a job down.
Given Trumps history, its possible she was doing a lot of "jobs" for Trump when she was much younger.
I wonder how right wing tabloids plan to spin this, as they were talking about her like she was a golden goddess
And seriously maybe Trump get distracted too by their breasts, which is why he doesn't notice that everything coming out of these people's mouths is unbelievable crap (including his own).
So is "Zacharia" the new "Scaramucci" as slang for "super fucking quick lmao"?
I wonder if any of Trump's supporters remember that his original 2016 campaign leant heavily on the idea that he was great at hiring people, and would replace the swamp with a team of the country's best and most highly qualified people?
Sure would be entertaining if he hired Loomer to fill the vacancy.. amIright?
Lmfao that’s incredible.
Get fired from any government job any%
Probably a WR.
She sure acted goofy.
so you’re suggesting we uh storm the white house conference room ballet dancing UwU?
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