New Trump spokeswoman makes White House debut, takes only 3 questions
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Katie Zacharia opened her first press briefing by reading – very slowly – a long list of what she said were the US president’s achievements
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Agence France-Presse Published: 1:47am, 14 Oct 2026
New White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia made her briefing room debut on Tuesday by taking remarkably few questions from journalists while leaving no doubt who she believes has all the answers – Donald Trump.
“I get to do what I was doing on the outside already, which was hoping to amplify, multiply and expand upon President Trump’s incredible agenda for the American people,” she said, describing her vision for the job.
Zacharia, a 41-year-old devotee of Trump’s hard-right Maga movement, is taking over the White House communications role just as Republicans face warnings of heavy defeat in coming midterm elections.
She is also replacing the combative but skilled former press secretary Karoline Leavitt at a time when polls show the 80-year-old president becoming ever more unpopular.
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