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🇺🇸 Trump fired his press secretary after one briefing, and CNN's Kaitlan Collins breaks down why five days was all it took
Katie Zacharia started Monday, held her first briefing Tuesday, went on Hannity Thursday night to clean up the mess, and by Friday morning Trump was telling reporters on the South Lawn he'd asked her: "Katie, is this for you? Because honestly, you don't need this."
Collins walks through what sank her.
The lawyer problem came first: Trump had announced her on Truth Social as an attorney, she'd described herself that way for years, and she isn't one, which CNN reports left the president "blindsided." Then came the debut briefing, which Trump didn't think was as bad as his advisers did until the coverage piled up. The Hannity appearance meant to fix it made it worse.
Trump's version is that she was "brutalized by the media" and he wants her to "reconsider." His advisers' version is that she's out. Both are true, which tells you how this White House fires people. Zacharia's one week also happened to include announcing Guilfoyle's resignation, so the person who delivered the firing got the next one.
Source: CNN / Writer: Daniel
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Basemint @thebasemint1 ·
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@MarioNawfal Trump runs the White House like a business: if someone isn't working out, they're gone in days, not years. Wish the rest of Washington held federal employees to that same standard.
