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Katie Zacharia barely made a week as press secretary. Now she becomes a part of 2026. 

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The 45th and 47th President of the United States has a problem with women.

The White House has now fired Katie Zacharia, only five days on the job. It must have been Susie Wiles warning the president that she will walk if she stays.

The White House Chief of Staff who has a say in hiring was pushed aside when they hired the inept Zacharia to the position that Karoline Leavitt left abruptly.

So six press secretaries in Donald J. Trump's presidency. Unprecedented.

Zacharia was fired Friday, after less than a week on the job, according to three people familiar with the matter.

The people spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the decision, which was not yet announced. Neither the White House nor Zacharia responded to requests for comment. But Trump told reporters on Friday that he had encouraged Zacharia to “reconsider” the job.

“Honestly, if I were you, I’d reconsider,” he told reporters, recounting his conversation with his press secretary. He said he added: “Katie, do you need this? I don’t think you need this.”

Zacharia's rapid departure was the revelation that she is not licensed to practice law, despite frequently describing herself as a lawyer during conservative media appearances.

• The "Attorney" Claim: When Trump announced her appointment on October 9, he explicitly praised her as an "attorney" and a distinguished graduate of the Pepperdine Caruso School of Law.
• No Bar Exam Record: An investigative report by the independent outlet Popular Information revealed that Zacharia was not licensed in any state. It was subsequently confirmed that while she graduated from law school, she failed the California bar exam and has never passed a bar exam anywhere.
• Legal Complaints: The watchdog group Campaign for Accountability filed an official complaint with the State Bar of California, requesting an investigation into whether Zacharia illegally misrepresented herself as a lawyer in violation of California law.

The president said Zacharia might continue to work for him “in some form, but maybe a more pleasant form.”

Zachariah had gotten off to a bumpy start with her first and final press briefing on Tuesday, in which she largely read off a script and ended questioning after just three queries. That was followed by an onslaught of headlines about whether she had misrepresented herself as a lawyer — the president called her “an attorney” — despite failing her bar exam.

Trump with Zacharia and mistress Natalie Harp.

Trump leaving the White House on Friday. He said he had told Zacharia: “Katie, do you need this? I don’t think you need this.”Credit...Alex Kent/The New York Times She had just started on Monday, and hadn’t even moved to Washington yet.

It was last Friday that the president offered her the job. A little-known Fox News commentator with whom many in the White House were unfamiliar, she was a surprise pick. While Zacharia did have the support of Natalie Harp, the powerful West Wing aide who rarely leaves the president’s side, others in the building believed her debut had been a disaster.

She was not a deft communicator.

She had represented herself as a lawyer in the news media, but when asked repeatedly by a reporter on the South Lawn of the White House to say in which state she had passed a bar exam, she twice replied, “When I moved to China.” She later told The New York Times that she had simply misheard the question — even though the president had repeated the reporter’s question to her while standing feet away.

The end was night after she appeared on Fox on Thursday night to be interviewed by the president’s friend Sean "Softball" Hannity, who asked her a few tough questions and treated her with rare skepticism.

The reception she got on Friday morning on “Fox and Friends” wasn’t exactly friendly, either.

“Do you wish you would have disclosed to the president about the bar and not passing the bar?” one of the hosts, Lawrence Jones, asked her.

“Well, Lawrence,” Zacharia responded, “those questions weren’t asked.”

The firing of the administration’s top spokeswoman capped off a week of remarkable upheaval inside Trumpworld.

Kimberly Guilfoyle, the ambassador to Greece, was fired on television on Tuesday (during Zacharia’s only briefing). The president spent time in the Oval Office trying to get to the bottom of a vicious fight between two of his loyalists, Richard Grenell and Alina Mildon.

Paolo Zampolli, a longtime Trump confidant who claimed to have introduced the president to his wife, was pushed out at the State Department after one of his internecine feuds spilled into the press. And the daughter of Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff, and others in her circle, came under scrutiny for their moneymaking overseas.