Trump FIRES Katie Zacharia After Just FIVE DAYS — White House in CHAOS!

Katie Zacharia’s career as Donald Trump’s White House press secretary is already over. She lasted just five days.

The president’s newest spokesperson was dismissed Friday after a disastrous first week that included an awkward debut briefing, uncomfortable television interviews, and mounting questions about her legal credentials.

Reuters confirmed her dismissal through two U.S. officials, one of whom said she had been let go. Another described her as transitioning out of the position.

The abrupt exit came just hours after Trump publicly suggested that Zacharia should reconsider whether she wanted the job at all.

“I think you’re better off being happy, and I’m not sure you can ever be happy in this stuff,” Trump told reporters, recounting what he had said to her.

He added that he had advised her to reconsider the role, while portraying the media’s treatment of his new spokesperson as unfair.

It was a remarkable turn for a president who had brought Zacharia into the White House to improve his administration’s public messaging ahead of the November midterm elections.

Her troubles began almost immediately.

At her first White House briefing on Tuesday, Zacharia spent approximately 14 minutes at the podium and took questions from just three outlets: Breitbart, Fox News, and the Daily Mail.

Even that relatively friendly audience did little to spare her from criticism. She repeatedly consulted her prepared remarks, struggled through parts of the appearance, and drew attention for confusing the words “husband” and “president.”

Then came the questions about her professional background.

Zacharia, a graduate of Pepperdine University’s law school, had described herself as having practiced international transaction law. But Reuters reported that it could find no record of her admission to the bar in any U.S. state or Washington, D.C.

During a Thursday interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity, Zacharia acknowledged that she had not passed the bar exam.

That admission fueled further scrutiny of how she had presented her legal qualifications. Zacharia maintained that her professional background included legal work overseas, but the controversy became another distraction for a White House that had hired her to communicate its message.

By Friday, even Trump was publicly questioning whether she should continue.

And then she was gone.

The five-day stint is believed to be the shortest tenure of any White House press secretary in American history.

It also invites an inevitable comparison with Anthony Scaramucci, whose famously brief tenure as Trump’s White House communications director lasted just 10 days in 2017.

Scaramucci himself weighed in on the news, writing on X: “Records are made to be broken.”

But he added that he took no pleasure in someone else’s difficulties.

The timing could hardly be worse for the administration. With the midterm elections approaching, Trump is trying to rally Republican voters and defend his record. Instead, his latest attempt to strengthen the White House communications operation has ended in another personnel embarrassment.

Trump told Fox News he was in no rush to appoint Zacharia’s replacement.

For now, the administration that wanted a stronger voice at the briefing-room podium is searching for one again — less than a week after its latest choice started the job.