Trump privately trashed Katie Zacharia as talentless before ousting her after just FIVE DAYS
Laughter erupts in the briefing room as Katie Zacharia cuts short her debut White House press conference after accepting just three pre-selected questions in 14 minutes.Three bikini photographs deleted from Katie Zacharia's Instagram account — she had previously condemned women who wear "bikini-style gym attire" as crossing a line.
President Donald Trump, speaking to reporters on Friday, urged Zacharia to "reconsider" the job and suggested she'd be "better off being happy" — yet was privately dismissing her as talentless in the days before she was pushed out. The 41-year-old California mother of four was gone after just five days, beating Anthony Scaramucci's 11-day record for the briefest White House tenure. She never held a second briefing.
Zacharia's Tuesday debut ran only 14 minutes, with three questions taken — and she visibly struggled her way through a written script.
Chief of Staff Susie Wiles reportedly set a television trap that proved fatal to Zacharia's position following disastrous interviews on sympathetic outlets including Fox News's Sean Hannity.
Ethics watchdog Campaign for Accountability says her departure does not extinguish its State Bar of California complaint over her disputed legal credentials.
