Katie Zacharia has 'catastrophic debut' as Trump's new Press Secretary

Whether we'll see her again behind that briefing room podium, is she going to do another Scaramucci, disappear? He lasted 10 days. I'm not sure how long she's going to last. Donald Trump's new White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, is giving her first briefing in a moment. What do we know about her? Well, she's been a vaccination, a vaccine denier. She's been all sorts. I mean, she's apparently, you know, it's not quite the season for spring cleaning, but she has been spring cleaning her social media accounts to make them more palatable to a wider American public because she was right out there on some of the things that she believed she opined on. And, you know, nothing wrong happened on January the 6th. Vaccines were a great conspiracy, on and on and on. She was fully signed up to the MAGA kind of view of the world. And I think she's had to do, as they say in supermarkets, a clean-up on aisle 12. She's a type, isn't she? She's Trump's type. oh are you saying he's got a type what are you saying she's not entirely plain bland and uh no she's got a brain has she blonde hair blue eyed and you know striking and she's got that she's got the trump look that they all have i am so honored to work for president trump and the american people as the new white house press secretary i want to thank president trump for his trust that he has placed in me, I have wanted to work for him for a very long time. I'm looking forward to working with each of you as well, especially as we are in the middle of the midterm blitz with energy and excitement never seen before in the history of midterms thanks to President Trump. Just look no further than last night in Youngstown, Ohio, where President Trump delivered another blockbuster rally out on the trail. The arena was overflowing with enthusiasm as thousands came out to support President Trump, as well as special guest Jake Paul and football legend John Gruden. The president also announced the Department of War has officially selected Cleveland, Ohio, as the new home for the U.S. Navy's Submarine Component Repair Center. I'm going to say something I didn't think I'd ever say. She's no Caroline Leavitt, is she? Caroline Leavitt was absolutely brilliant. Whip smart. Oh, yeah. Whipsmart. And got it. And I think, you know, she's struggling to read from about the how many square feet the submarine repair facility is. And she said war, like a Miss World contestant. The Department of War? War! It's great. Look, yeah, where she's standing now, she's in the in the briefing room of the White House. There is a slight, the briefing room is built above what used to be the swimming pool, which was built for John F. Kennedy because of all the injuries he's had. anyway there's a sliding door uh and then you go into what's called lower press and during the trump era all the people that populated lower press before you went into the proper west the west wing proper they all looked like they were glamour models i mean you know you kind of thought i wonder what was it that first attracted you to you know to the six foot blonde yeah to the six foot blonde etc and it was just like that and and it's you know and it hasn't changed and people for wives kind of thing. Well, they're straight out of central casting. The sort of people that are going to get a job with Donald Trump. In fairness, there was a press secretary, Sarah Sanders, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who's now the governor of Arkansas, who didn't... Didn't fit that bill. She was in his first term. Yeah, she was in the first term. Yeah. And she's now the governor of Arkansas. She didn't fit that bill. And again, a very bright woman. Yeah, very bright woman. But also the people that, you know, we talk about who are around President Trump, not the people who are doing the briefings, but all the people around President Trump are all, you know, absolutely drop-dead gorgeous. This is round two, isn't it? It was catastrophic, Andrew. Katie Zachariah, she's been a made-for-TV, pro-Trump commentator for the last several years. She comes from the hard, hard right of Donald Trump's Make America Great Again movement, and she took to the White House podium utterly unprepared. I want to ask you a policy question. Has the U.S. stopped sharing intel with Ukraine? I'll have to get back to you on that. She only took three questions, all of them from reliable pro-Trump outfits, Breitbart News, Fox News, and the Daily Mail. My kid's art is completely unacceptable, so my husband is out here. She stumbled. She sounded very uncertain of the few facts that she was putting across. Mostly, she was breaching the Hatch Act, which is a law that prohibits the White House press secretary from engaging in avowedly campaign messaging in the middle of an election campaign. That was all thrown out completely by her. And she's facing all sorts of questions about her own very controversial previous social media postings, plus new questions about whether she ever really got the law degree that she claims to have. She says she's licensed to practice law. no reporters can figure out where that license exists. You said she's an attorney. Where did she pass the bar exam? Which state? Can you tell us? Where did you pass the bar exam? Mr. President. I think at the end of the day, whether we'll see her again behind that briefing room podium, is she going to do another Scaramucci, disappear? He lasted 10 days. I'm not sure how long she's going to last? I know I'm capable of being able to step up to that. So thank you for that question. In fact, I am going to end it because President Trump is heading out to Marine One for our historic trip to Alaska, and we can ask him all of the questions out there. So thank you so much. To the question on, the President will be back on Thursday, and that's what I will answer. I'll leave it there. He will answer those questions out in Marine One.