Trump's Fallen Press Secretary Eclipses Scaramucci to Grim Record

Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Imag Katie Zacharia is out as press secretary in less than half of a Scaramucci, marking a humiliating new record for the 41-year-old fake lawyer turned White House flameout.

President Donald Trump canned his new MAGA mouthpiece Friday after she fled her first press briefing following three softball questions and was then exposed for portraying herself as a lawyer despite failing the bar exam.

Her firing after just five days is unprecedented.

She has eclipsed the previous record-holder for shortest modern White House stint, Anthony Scaramucci, who infamously lasted just 11 days as White House Communications Director in the president’s first term.

Scaramucci’s near-immediate firing in 2017 created a unit of time equivalent to about 10 or 11 days—either a “Scaramucci” or simply a “Mooch”—used anytime that political appointees are fired quickly.

Now, it appears Zacharia has introduced an even shorter unit for future MAGA scalps.

Scaramucci, now a frequent Trump critic, has leaned into using “Scaramucci” as a political unit of time.

On Friday, he weighed in on Zacharia’s week from hell, which the entire nation has been watching unfold.

“Records are made to be broken,” he wrote on X.

“But I take no pleasure in other people’s pain.” Earlier in the day, he was optimistic Zacharia would survive in the administration longer than he did.

Replying to someone who estimated she was trending toward the “under” of a “Scaramucci” after she made a head-scratching appearance on Sean Hannity’s show, he wrote, “She will make it.

I have the over.” In the end, she made it less than halfway there.

Trump told reporters in a gaggle on Friday, “I said to her, ‘Honestly, if I were you, I’d reconsider.

You think about it, but I would reconsider.’” Moments later, The New York Times reported that three sources confirmed that Zacharia, a 41-year-old mother of four, was out of a job at the White House.