Katie Zacharia fired after five days as White House press secretary
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The lettuce is still grocery store fresh
Might even be better now .?
Gotta let some of the pesticides evaporate to get that condensed pesticide outer crust ::chefs kiss::
Name checks out
The only bees that make milk.
We should start using sliced avocados
Cut apples in half and time how long it takes to turn brown
Driscoll's raspberries.
How little vetting must have gone into the decision? Dubious claims of being an attorney aside, if they had done any sort of mock press conference her complete lack of public speaking ability should have been evident.
But she looks like Ivanka? That's all the qualies she needed.
I don’t want to stick up for Ivanka since she is a garbage person but Katie looks like Temu Ivanka. Or like if you were going to make a porn that’s thinly veiled Ivanka fanfic. I’m not even a fashion girlie but that girl looks kind of a mess. Like she just rolled out of bed, smeared on some brows without her glasses and stumbled up to the podium. Don’t get me wrong, their insides will always be the ugliest insides ever, but those outsides are no prize. I’ve legit seen junkies on the onramp who looked more put together.
Trump isn't a fashion person. He doesn't care about fashion or how "put together" she looks. She's a thin, blonde, white woman with similar enough features to his daughter. Close enough for Trump
I mean, have you seen the way he dresses?
She has maralago face. A super high end one, but it's like looking at a robot.
Now that you mention it, I saw a junkie outside the WAWA In Ft Lauderdale that was way hotter, but emotionally the same kind of mess probably
That’s my kind of lady.
She actually wore a coat that said "I don't really care, do you?" if I recall
The vetting is Does she look like Trumps daughter Will she let Trump fuck her
That’s pretty much it
I think it comes from the conservative mindset that someone competent and capable in one field will be similarly competent and capable in other fields
Simply put: They believe in a hierarchy. Some people are imherently better at everything than others
She was competent and capable in her previous role of being an ass kisser. Because she was able to butter Trump up, it was assumed she would be good at any role, and she had "the look" Trump wanted (she looked like his daughter)
It's just "is she hot", that's all they care about. Also, their idea of hot is terrifying.
But that's the thing...she's not.
She is to them, they find that surgery look attractive.
Background checks at fast food restaurants are more thorough than the vetting process that goes into Whitehouse staff in this admin. Would not be surprised if it's chock full of spies.
If you wm has skills for this job (or maybe you already do) would you be willing to apply of the last person quit because the president used her as decoy when there was a real threat.
I think only dumb people would still be interested. Looks like they had to wait to even find her.
In a sane world after all the "fallout" from finding out they did zero vetting with a lot of iSSe goons you'd think they'd start doing a tad better for higher profile positions.
But then again in a sane world iSSe wouldn't exist and this orange kid diddler would be fucking locked up in jail
Oh man, she only lasted half a mooch.
Idk, 5 business days seems like a full working mooch?
A mooch is 11 regular days so she's really not even a full half mooch.
I figure a Zacharia is the metric equivalent...
A Temu Ivanka
Half a mooch is now a Zacharia
Who the hell dresses like a flight attendant for their first Whitehouse press appearance? (Besides her)
Maybe she had a job interview right after?
She left the job to run her new successful brass nipple company? Bripple?
LMFAO, this is awesome
Even Solomon Grundy had a better run.
Dang, he's still so crisp and tasty
I could still make a great salad out of that.
I'm getting to where I think a full Steven Cheung denial is the best possible endorsement of truth available. His tears of indignant rage just seem to light the last candle on the cake of whatever exposé is going around this time.
You thought Baghdad Bob was fun? Wait for Swampland Steve!
Big Cheungus!
Never forget!
Imagine if a Democrat administration had this scandal. Imagine Biden hiring this woman.
You really gotta give up pretending or imagining anyone is holding republicans to the same standard as Dems
It's like the "only democrats have agency" thing. We as a society don't seem to hold republicans to any sort of standard. They're like a fire that burns or a plague that spreads. You can't expect a fire to be polite.
Except they're not an elemental force of nature. They're people. People with names and addresses and free will. They should be held accountable.
This really is Biden's fault if you get down to the basic facts...
/s
*Democratic
Off to start her own podcast grift now I'm sure.
got my crypto wallet ready for the totally-not-a-rug-pull Zacharia coin thats bound to show up in the coming weeks
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disclosure: I don't know crypto slang I'm doing my best
sounds pretty accurate to me lol
Uh uh to the spoon
Already working on that book
I wonder if any of Trump's supporters remember that his original 2016 campaign leant heavily on the idea that he was great at hiring people, and would replace the swamp with a team of the country's best and most highly qualified people?
Supporting Trump was always about making MAGA feel good about themselves, feels not reals. Trump's actual policy outcomes almost never mattered.
Perhaps the main policy point of Trump was anti foreign adventure, alongside being anti-immigration and anti-inflation. And now Trump has started an optional war in Iran which is arguably even stupider than Bush II's Iraq War. Which has caused inflation to sky-rocket. And the national debt is spiraling out of control. And yet, 76% of Republicans still approve of Trump. I don't think most people realize how literally insane the loyalty of the Republican voter base is.
Which is typical for fascism. It's only about appealing to the emotions of the masses to gain popularity and thus power.
The % is a little misleading though. The total # of people who self- identify as Republican has also been shrinking (true with people who self-identify as democratic too). More and more people self-identify as independent. Most of the data I have looked at stop at 2023-2025 though, so who knows what it'd look like today after the fiasco this administration has been in 2026.
Republicans are still projected to get something like 40-50% of the votes next election. Given how much the Republican party is the party of Trump, pretty much every vote for a Republican is a vote for Trump. All the Republicans who opposed Trump have already been primaried out at this point.
What actual policies does the Republican party even stand for, at this point? "No new wars"? Economic responsibility? Preserving freedom and democracy? Small government? Real Christian values like helping the poor? Preserving the status quo? Free market capitalism? Free speech? No, they stand for Trump and racism, and nothing else.
So while you can (rightfully) quibble about the specific % I mentioned being misleading, the underlying Trump support is huge.
The bulk of them don't have memories longer than that twar held her position.
Next secretary is already announced, don’t worry!
Now that's a challenging wank.
Where's the Viking beard
I don't think their boobs are big enough for them to be qualified to be White House Press Secretary.
5 days, isn't that only half a mooch?
.45 of a mooch. She's not even half the mooch he used to be.
I thought the mooch was a negative scalar value, though?
Three days. She didn't work Monday, and she was fired this morning, so I don't think she worked today.
I keep wondering how Tuesday to Friday works out to "five days"
USA outstupids itself daily.
Hold my beer.
Its crazy she thought she could get away with lying about her degrees in a job thats so high profile. From far away she does look a bit like Ivanka, who trump has said he wants to have sex with, so I imagine thats why she was hired.
https://newrepublic.com/post/173968/donald-trump-fantasized-sex-ivanka-new-book-says
Between the way he talks about Ivanka, the way he interacts with her in public, and those creepy-as-fuck pictures of the two of them together, it was already obvious to anyone with half a brain that he desperately wants to bone her
He literally admitted that "If she wasn't my daughter, perhaps I would be dating her."
I think he already did. The beginning part of this video of Ivanka giving a tour of her bedroom makes me feel gross. It's like the minute she turns to her bed all the air is sucked out of her.
https://youtu.be/R6FZ5kj3FGo
He definitely has. What Trump wants, Trump gets. Being told "No" only makes him go harder. He's not the main character of the TRUMP-EPSTEIN FILES (TM) for nothing.
The trumpstein pedo-files®
Sucked on that orange micro dick for 5 days work lmao
I bet the Turnip administration is really upset about the person whose job it is to communicate with the press was really distracting and ineffective. Now they'll have to waste more time looking for another with just a few short weeks until midterms. I bet they really hate that their pick is a relative nobody and convenient scapegoat. They probably really wanted to field questions about inflation, or oil prices, or food prices, or investments into Russia, or intentionally hamstringing Ukraine, or the Epstein files, or any of the insane things Turnip has said at recent rallies about his own health, or the superficial qualities of his supporters, or the bang up job RFK is doing with measles, or their targeting of political rivals, or their waivering support in traditionally rock solid strong holds, or that list of ballroom doners WP just released. Yup, I bet they're really embarrassed. We should keep focusing on the card we picked, surely the magician wont use misdirection.
In all fairness, if you know going to be asked tough questions, you want a propagandist that can gaslight on the spot, not a slackjaw going "DURRRRRRRRR, me laaaawwwwwyerrrrrrr HURRRRRR"
Ah well, valuing loyalty > competence strikes again, shocking nobody. I might actually watch SNL this weekend, though.
They underestimated how hard it is to find someone like Leavitt.
She was repulsively effective.
Yes, clearly an effective communicator and bright. A pity the brightness was only on the outside.
I guarantee her being an Ivanka clone helped in the interview, too
job interveiw kweschuns:
Do you confuse the President with your husband?!?
Are you ok with incest roleplay?
Do you swallow?
Were you once normal looking and at least somewhat attractive but have since morphed into some weird jigsaw blowjob machine animatronic?
The lettuce lasted longer the she did.
Outlived, and out cultured, by a bowl of warm, raw milk.
At least that would probably become yogurt.
Something tells me this is the longest she has held a job down.
Given Trumps history, its possible she was doing a lot of "jobs" for Trump when she was much younger.
I wonder how right wing tabloids plan to spin this, as they were talking about her like she was a golden goddess
And seriously maybe Trump get distracted too by their breasts, which is why he doesn't notice that everything coming out of these people's mouths is unbelievable crap (including his own).
And as such, and US Americans, there to for, and as such.
I personally believe, that, US americans are unable to do so because some people out there in our nation don't have the answer and I believe that our education like such as South Africa, and the Iraq, everywhere like such as, and I believe that they should our education over here in the US should help the US, it should help South Africa, and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future for our children.
Amen.
Sounds like her
bossex-bossNatalie Harp was having NONE of it.
the homewrecker, i almost forgot about her.
So what happened this week that this whole palaver pushed out of the news cycle?
This week the Washington Post released an exposé of the donors to the ballroom fund. You know, the one Trump swore would be used to pay for the new ballroom project that he would help fund himself. The one that never abided by actual donation laws but remains controlled by a PAC that steers the cash into a private account belonging to Trump, all with zero transparency or oversight. The one that has taken in over $350 million in unnamed donations so far. That one.
Later in the article:
It's well worth reading for the donor list alone, but those are the highlights. This is the c/Politics discussion: it contains both the original WaPo link (paywalled) and free options to read the content.
::: spoiler in short :
I heard she passed the bar in China, though! Lololol
So is "Zacharia" the new "Scaramucci" as slang for "super fucking quick lmao"?
Scaramucci is gonna be pissed, he loves that title
The Mooch will always be shortest in my book, lol
A Mooch will always be the base unit. It does take two Zachs to equal one Mooch however.
And to make this measurement a perfect fit with the rest, they don't line up nicely either.
The cult in power forgot to add a skill requirement for the pretty-face spokesperson. 🤦♂️
Well, it's how they usually do things, i guess.
If I've learned something in my time working with hardcore repugnants they give zero fucks about actual skill. In no particular order, these are what they hire based on...
Looks
Ass-kissing
Banging the boss
Being related or at least BFFs with someone
Bribes
Blackmail
Only five days and she still managed to make a fool out of herself.
Get fired from any government job any%
Probably a WR.
She lasted only 0.45 Scaramucci.
The lettuce lasted longer again
Only the best. At enriching themselves.
Fired in five days,
Less than a Scaramucci,
All the best people!
Sure would be entertaining if he hired Loomer to fill the vacancy.. amIright?
funny how she is worst than Ms Karoline.
Karoline Leavitt's ability to shamelessly lie was impressible. Horrifying and evil, but impressive. I assume that Zacharia was simply not qualified at shamelessly lying?
That was only about a half a Mooch
LESS THAN half a TRUSS.
It takes a really bad politician to actually become a noun, for example with WW2 nearly out of living memory we all still know what a Quisling is and why you don't want to be one. Apparently Liz Truss was spectacularly crap enough that she's becoming to gross incompetence and doctrinaire policy what Quisling is to treason and collaboration.
Lmfao that’s incredible.
As consolation, Zachariah was allowed to give President Trump one last HJ before being escorted by security from the White House.
And every voter will Harrison Burgeron this week away by November.
so you’re suggesting we uh storm the white house conference room ballet dancing UwU?