Humiliated Katie Zacharia Stunned by Five-Day MAGA Disaster

Kevin Lamarque / REUTERS Katie Zacharia hit out at the brutal backlash she received after her disastrous press secretary debut—just as Donald Trump moved to fire her five days into the job.

The former conservative commentator, who only began working for the administration on Monday, was already facing questions about her credentials and a widely mocked press briefing when Trump told her to reconsider her job on Friday, shortly before leaving for a rally in Georgia.

White House insiders say the president had been unimpressed by her debut, and concerned about the coverage since, so much so that he asked aides for their feedback.

But the California-based mother of four had few established allies to back her inside the West Wing, where even most of the press team had been loyal staff to her predecessor, Karoline Leavitt.

Sources told The Daily Beast that Zacharia was stunned and unprepared for the backlash she had received, telling Trump and others that the week had been much rougher than she could ever expect.

By that stage, however, Trump had made up his mind to “transition” her out of the press secretary’s role.

The president himself confirmed as much when he spoke to reporters on Friday and informed them she had effectively been fired.

“I said, ‘Katie, you know you don’t have to do this if you don’t want,’” Trump said.

“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 continued.

“I said, ‘Do you really want to live like this? I don’t think they’ll ever ease up.’ And you know, Karoline did a very good job and I think Katie maybe would too.

But Katie’s off to a start that the news has been so nasty to her.

I’ve never seen anything like it, actually.” “And I said to her, ‘Honestly, if I were you, I’d reconsider.

You think about it: but I would reconsider.’” Zacharia, 41, was previously the communications adviser to Trump’s social media platform, Truth Social, and a regular commentator on conservative outlets like Fox and Newsmax.

She also served as a Homeland Security spokesperson under former secretary Kristi Noem, but quit after a few months, blaming the long commute from California for her departure.