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Trump's press secretary Katie Zacharia out after five days
Katie Zacharia is leaving her job as White House press secretary after five days, a White House official confirmed Friday, October 16, 2026. Trump named her on October 9 to replace Karoline Leavitt, she started October 12, and her first and only briefing, on October 13, was criticized as shaky, making her tenure the shortest for a press secretary in modern history. The Wall Street Journal reported that she was not licensed to practice law in any U.S. state, and Zacharia told Fox News she failed the bar exam and never retook it. Trump said he had urged her to reconsider the job, and she had said during the briefing that Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle had been asked to step down.
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