Katie Zacharia breaks silence after Trump fires her as White House press secretary; says she was honored ‘to work for him’ for five days

Katie Zacharia, who got Trump’s boot within five days of her new job as White House Press Secretary, gives her first reaction which has some words for the President on Friday night, October 16.

“President Trump is a kind, wonderful, gracious, thoughtful, enthusiastic, and the most hardworking man,” Zacharia wrote on social media. “I wish more Americans appreciated him. No one will ever make America great the way he has and continues to. It was an honor to work for him,” she added.



However, the 42-year-old did not address what led to her abrupt dismissal after replacing her predecessor, Karolina Levitt, who served the post for over one and a half years.

Trump himself announced Zacharia’s firing on Friday and urged Zacharia to reconsider whether she wanted to remain in a job that opened a door for intense media scrutiny.

“I said, ‘Katie, you know you don’t have to do this if you don’t want,’” Trump told reporters, recounting their conversation. “She said, ‘This is a lot tougher.’ I said, ‘Welcome to the world of Trump.’”

“Look, she’s a nice person, a great person, and she’s been treated roughly,” he said, adding that the news coverage had been unusually harsh.

Zacharia was in the center of criticism after her first press briefing on Tuesday, which lasted just 14 minutes. While briefing, much of the time, she read from prepared notes awkwardly and took questions from three conservative media outlets.

She, however, later defended her first press meet during an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity, “What I feel is I really stepped up to the plate to do the press conference, Sean, with very little prep time.”

Zacharia, who portrays herself as a lawyer, was in the mud for her legal credentials. Despite the fact that she had failed the California bar exam and had not retaken it.

Her rocky departure is only one among other high-profile exits by women from Trump’s circle. A few days earlier, US Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle departed and followed in the footsteps of former Cabinet officials Pam Bondi, Kristi Noem, Lori Chavez-DeRemer, and Tulsi Gabbard.