Trump fires the new Press Secretary three days after debuting

WashingtonKatie Zacharia will go down in history as one of the White House Press secretaries who has held the position for the least amount of time. Three days after debuting with a very brief and hesitant appearance, Donald Trump has decided to fire her. Publicly, the US president told reporters this Friday that Zacharia should reconsider her position. "I don't think Katie should have to suffer as she suffers at the hands of the press," said the Republican. Although he presented it as an option, government sources have revealed to the New York Times that they have already fired her.

Trump has dedicated himself to blaming the press to justify his decision. The US leader paints the departure of the new spokesperson not as a consequence of her poor performance, but as a way to protect her from the alleged attacks by the media. "I told Katie that, in my opinion, the media had treated her in a very, very unfair way. I told her: 'Katie, do you need to go through all this? I don't think you need it'. We are trying to do something. I want her to have a good life. The media is destroying her," he stated before boarding the Marine One to go to Georgia, where this Friday he has a campaign event scheduled ahead of the November 3rd legislative elections. The US leader invites Zacharia to leave as a way to avoid the public ridicule that her first, and probably last, intervention caused. However, Trump does not rule out keeping Zacharia within the administration in another position.

Beyond her inability to look up from the paper or the slip-up in which she confused her husband with Trump, Zacharia has been the subject of a new controversy in the last few hours. Although the US president refers to her as a lawyer, several US media outlets discovered that the White House spokesperson had never managed to pass the exam to practice as such in the United States. Later, during an interview last night on Fox, Zacharia acknowledged that she had studied law, but that, indeed, she had never managed to pass the test.

Trump, in response to the question of whether he was disappointed that Zacharia had not revealed earlier that she had not passed the bar exam to practice law, simply excused her. "I hadn't hired her to be a lawyer. I probably wouldn't have cared if she had told me. She has been loyal to me since the first day, but the job [as White House press secretary] is not easy." Zacharia, 41 years old and a mother of four children, is a familiar face within the Trumpist world, who already had close ties to the tycoon: until now, she had been working as a communications advisor at the company that manages Truth Social, the Republican's social network.