Trump fires his press secretary

Svenska Dagbladet

Vance wanted to talk — then she didn't return

The first week on the job as the White House's new press secretary was her last.

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Sean Corcoran

@seanpcorcoran.org

“Transitioning out of her role”

PBS News @pbsnews.org · 3d

The White House confirmed that press secretary Katie Zacharia is transitioning out of her role after less than a week on the job.

Speaking to reporters Friday, President Donald Trump said he gave her the option to leave, saying, “Maybe it’s not for her.”

October 17, 2026 at 5:40 PM

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PBS News

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The White House confirmed that press secretary Katie Zacharia is transitioning out of her role after less than a week on the job.

Speaking to reporters Friday, President Donald Trump said he gave her the option to leave, saying, “Maybe it’s not for her.”

October 17, 2026 at 5:30 PM

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Die Presse

When Trump's women fall, there is no need for applause [premium]

President Donald Trump's new press secretary Katie Zacharia had to leave in record time. The chaos has a pattern and sheds light on structures from which women only seemingly and temporarily benefit.

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The White House has announced the new press secretary.

October 17, 2026 at 4:28 PM

by Robert B. Reich

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Robert Reich

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Katie Zacharia lasted barely half a Scaramucci.

I actually feel sorry for her.

Hear me out.

October 17, 2026 at 3:01 PM

The Independent

Susie Wiles had a hand in setting up Katie Zacharia’s car crash Fox interview: report

Zacharia’s contentious interview with Trump-pal Sean Hannity was described as a ‘sanctioned hit’ by one insider

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Nathan Newman

@nathansnewman.bsky.social

Zacharia story at core is another example of unqualified white person being hired by Trump administration.

And I emphasize "white" because anger at DEI is NOT that unqualified black people were being hired, but that it blocked unqualified white people getting hired.
www.yahoo.com/news/politic...

Katie Zacharia out as Trump's White House press secretary after 5 days on the job

“It was an honor to work for him,” Zacharia wrote on social media.

www.yahoo.com

October 17, 2026 at 2:00 PM

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Gerald Friedman

@gfriedma.bsky.social

Both Musk and Trump want to give Ukraine to Putin
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-16...

October 16, 2026

Trump’s new pick for White House press secretary lasted less than five days.

heathercoxrichardson.substack.com

October 17, 2026 at 1:32 PM

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Karly Kingsley

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If Biden had a Katie Zacharia this close to midterms, there would be wall-to-wall coverage of how incompetent the entire admin is, but since it’s a Trump admin, we all spend a week making the same jokes while Trump aligns the US with Russia. This admin is a circus on purpose.

October 17, 2026 at 1:31 PM

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Gerald Friedman

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Katie Zacharia’s brief White House stint included a rebuke from the Auschwitz Memorial forward.com/news/856373/...

Katie Zacharia’s brief White House stint included a rebuke from the Auschwitz Memorial

The ousted press secretary claimed ‘the abortion pill has the same chemicals' as the poison gas Nazis used in concentration camps

forward.com

October 17, 2026 at 1:20 PM

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Timothy McBride

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Donald Trump dismissed White House press secretary Katie Zacharia after only five days, a move made without consulting longtime chief of staff Susie Wiles, raising concerns about growing dysfunction in his second term. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Trump just fooled around with Susie Wiles over Katie Zacharia. And he found out

Katie Zacharia’s disastrously short tenure as White House press secretary, a hire he made without consulting his veteran chief of staff, could be a harbinger of dysfunction ahead, Andrew Feinberg writ...

www.independent.co.uk

October 17, 2026 at 12:17 PM

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

White House: Trump fires spokesperson Katie Zacharia after a few days

Trump accused the media of treating Zacharia badly after he presented her as a lawyer. Reuters reports that she is not registered as a lawyer in any state.

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Aftenposten

Trump's press secretary fired while she was being interviewed about her new job

Katie Zacharia was in an interview with The Wall Street Journal when someone knocked on the door.

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Süddeutsche Zeitung

USA: Loyalists and Yes-Women Wanted

The US president has weeded out Katie Zacharia again after only a week. What's up with Trump and his press women?

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The Independent

White House’s Katie Zacharia sitting down for ‘interview with Wall Street Journal when fired by Trump’

Donald Trump told the newly appointed press secretary to ‘reconsider’ her position

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Andy Brown

@andybrown1951.bsky.social

Put more clearly - an arrogant incompetent old man picked an arrogant incompetent woman for her looks and her extremist views and she proved utterly incapable of delivering. That's how the US is being run right now.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Zacharia was thrown into a whirlwind - and failed at a critical time for Trump

The White House is facing growing adversity, writes the BBC's Anthony Zurcher, weeks before crucial midterm elections.

www.bbc.co.uk

October 17, 2026 at 7:29 AM

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)

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October 16, 2026

Trump’s new pick for White House press secretary lasted less than five days.

heathercoxrichardson.substack.com

October 17, 2026 at 6:26 AM

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Trump's press secretary fired while she was being interviewed about her new job

USA: Loyalists and Yes-Women Wanted

White House’s Katie Zacharia sitting down for ‘interview with Wall Street Journal when fired by Trump’

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