Katie Zacharia celebrates her ‘favorite’ moment in Trump’s administration

Katie Zacharia, who lasted barely a week as White House press secretary, posted a photo of herself with President Donald Trump on X and called it one of her favorite moments with him. New York Times photographer Doug Mills took the image aboard Marine One, showing Zacharia and Trump's special assistant, Natalie Harp, smiling at the president on the way to a midterms campaign event in Alaska. Commenters mocked the post, joking that her time in the job offered few moments to choose from, according to The Independent.

Zacharia succeeded Karoline Leavitt and was removed by Trump two weeks ago, after a single briefing in which she took three questions and had trouble reading her notes. Scrutiny had grown over her description of herself as a lawyer, since she had never passed the bar exam. Hostile questioning from Sean Hannity on Fox News and a poor showing on Fox and Friends sealed her fate, The Independent reports. She learned of the firing during a Wall Street Journal interview.

Since then she has described herself as "ruthlessly loyal" to Trump. At a Florida rally, Trump said she had panicked when reporters shouted at her. No one has served a shorter term in the post.

Summarized by PolitiKool from The Independent’s reporting. Read the full story at The Independent →