Katie Zacharia, Trump’s New Press Secretary, Is Fired After 5 Days

[u/alktrio06]

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/us/politics/katie-zacharia-fired-press-secretary.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

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[u/Big_Mitch_Baker]

She out-Scaramucci-ed Scaramucci. Only the best and brightest, right?

[u/NationalMyth → u/Big_Mitch_Baker]

Half a mooch!

[u/cityexile → u/NationalMyth]

To translate for fellow Brits…about one third of a lettuce.

[u/confused_ape → u/cityexile]

One fifth.

Truss lasted 49 days, Scaramucci 10 days and now Zacharia 5 days.

There seems to be some debate about whether S was 10 or 11 days.

So I propose we just call it 50, 10 & 5 for simplicity.

[u/CarlosFer2201 → u/confused_ape]

A metric mooch is 10 days. The imperial one is 11.

[u/Synapse7777 → u/CarlosFer2201]

A bakers mooch is 13

[u/North-Wealth4706 → u/Synapse7777]

And a bankers mooch is 9.

[u/RazarTuk → u/confused_ape]

I'm seeing that Truss stepped down on her 50th day, September 6th - October 25th. So at least if you count both the start and end dates, a Zacharia is 5 days, a Mooch is 11 days, and a Truss is 50 days or exactly one dekazacharia

[u/Cmdr_Shiara → u/confused_ape]

This is the UK and the USA, having nonsensical unit sizes is part of our DNA. Leave metric political timelines to the french.

[u/RazarTuk → u/Cmdr_Shiara]

Actually... they're fairly normal. If you count their first and last days, a Truss is 50 days, a Mooch is 11 days, and a Zacharia is 5 days or exactly one decitruss. Which honestly feels just inconvenient enough to be hilarious

[u/linoleuM-- → u/RazarTuk]

Decitruss 🤣

[u/mindspork → u/NationalMyth]

One Mooch is divisible into two Katies now.

[u/addandsubtract → u/mindspork]

Trump not only gave us SI, but also new SI units.

[u/orangesfwr → u/addandsubtract]

Anything but the metric system

[u/caribou16 → u/orangesfwr]

She lasted 500 Millimooches.

[u/DrNopeMD → u/addandsubtract]

Wikipedia has already been updated to include a Zachariah as an unit of measure haha

[u/silent-onomatopoeia → u/NationalMyth]

Technically 45 centimuccis.

[u/BethanyHipsEnjoyer → u/NationalMyth]

We doin it in Katies now, boys!

[u/FaceDeer → u/BethanyHipsEnjoyer]

One Katie is 0.454545... of a Mooch.

And people wonder how the Imperial measurement system got where it is.

[u/duvie773 → u/FaceDeer]

.45 repeating is very fitting for yet another horrible hiring by the 45th president

[u/canospam0 → u/NationalMyth]

50 centimooches.

[u/Delicious-Day-3614 → u/Big_Mitch_Baker]

Babe wake up, new unit of failure just droped

[u/eopanga]

The fact that people still support this clown show of an administration will never cease to amaze me. It's a collection of grifters, con artists, scammers, vultures, and incompetents. These are the people they want leading our country?

[u/REpassword → u/eopanga]

“If they let me hate others, yes!” - MAGA

[u/Hollownerox → u/REpassword]

The funniest part is that nobody was really stopping them from hating others before this. They just felt like they couldn't share their hate openly because people would, rightfully, shame them for it. But there was nothing actually stopping them from doing so prior.

So these weirdos let obvious crooks run the nation's soft power and nigh unchallenged global leadership position into the ground, because of imagined victimhood.

[u/LuvKrahft → u/Hollownerox]

I think a good number of them thought Hate Crimes were going to be legalized. It’s crazy how many local idiots have been arrested for threatening or straight up assaulting people (all while yelling xenophobic MAGA shit) with that “but why are you arresting ME” look on their faces.

[u/JnnyRuthless → u/LuvKrahft]

I mean, in some ways they have been legalized. In the city I'm in there've been a lot of hate crimes and the police just never seem to get around to investigating them. And this is in "commie" CA. Wonder why.

[u/ithinkyouresus → u/LuvKrahft]

I mean ICE is a legalized hate crime organization with a signing bonus

[u/IamDDT → u/REpassword]

"If you can convince the lowest white man that he is better than the best colored man, he won't notice you are picking his pocket. Hell, give him someone to look down on, and he'll empty his wallet for you!" - LBJ

People say Trump is a poor man's idea of a rich man, and a weak man's idea of a strong man. This is exactly correct. His supporters are either billionaires, or poor and weak. He tells them that they are "better" than the Brown Horde(tm) that is coming to rape their dog and eat their daughter, so they love him, and throw their money at him.

[u/Data_Chandler → u/eopanga]

Magoids want others (the people they hate) to suffer. That's literally all it is.

To quote LBJ:

"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."

[u/Particular-Guess734 → u/Data_Chandler]

My favorite quote is “MAGA would eat shit if it meant a liberal had to smell his breath”

[u/afipunk84 → u/Data_Chandler]

LBJ had their number for sure. And whats fucked is that literally nothing has changed since then.

[u/hollaback_girl → u/afipunk84]

The authoritarian/fascist playbook is maybe 2 pages and it hasn't changed in 1,000 years.

[u/eamonnanchnoic → u/eopanga]

As long as the liberals get pissed it works.

A huge contingent of the US have a serious case of terminal inadequacy and need others to suffer to avoid dealing with their own nonsense.

[u/Electronic_Film_2837 → u/eamonnanchnoic]

Also Trump has completely normalized GOP completely lying about everything and acting as immorally as they want.

Who cares if the world tanks when you can just lie that’s it’s great

[u/DrunkCorgis → u/eopanga]

It’s the result of half a century of Republican propaganda:

“The most dreaded words in the English language: ‘we’re from the government, and we’re here to help!”

“Government doesn’t fix problems, government IS the problem!”

“I want to shrink government to size it can be effectively drowned in a bathtub.”

“Both sides are the same!”

It’s all bullshit that trained Reagan’s GOP, the Tea Party, then MAGA, not to expect anything from either party. The Dems are reviled for wasting money on healthcare and education, and the GOP doesn’t need to deliver anything, telling their voters that they are in on the joke, and cutting costs is in their best interests.

Cutting benefits, that is, while pushing tax cuts for the rich, more military spending, corporate bailouts. and golden ballrooms.

And red states buy it every fucking time. Guess there is a benefit to cutting education after all. /s

[u/TunaNoCrust811]

What a fucking joke this administration is

[u/Efficient_Carrot_669 → u/TunaNoCrust811]

This is one of the funniest jokes they’ve had all year. A fake lawyer who can’t stop doubling down on how she isn’t. For the next press secretary we should do a fake doctor or a fake scientist or something, just to keep the laugh riot going.

Edit to add: we certainly should not see a qualified public relations or communications professional in this role! I want clowns, and clowns only.

[u/IDoLikeMyShishkebabs → u/Efficient_Carrot_669]

Dude it'd be so funny if they tried to bring in a health expert whose policy was centuries behind modern medicine and still pushed something wild like miasma theory, that'd be too on the nose though surely

[u/HittingSmoke → u/IDoLikeMyShishkebabs]

AMERICANS HAVE TOO MUCH BLOOD! DRAIN SOME BLOOD AND GIVE THEM HEROIN MARTINIS!

[u/Beer-Me]

Lucky for her, she has her career as an attorney to fall back on

[u/BadHominem → u/Beer-Me]

in China

[u/DoesntMatterBrian → u/BadHominem]

Temu Lawyer

[u/Ozymandias12]

I literally burst out laughing when the push notification came.

[u/Radiant_Spell7710 → u/Ozymandias12]

One Zacharia is half a Scaramucci.

[u/Kuze421 → u/Radiant_Spell7710]

That's fuckin' brilliant, unlike Ms. Zacharia.

[u/Moostronus → u/Kuze421]

Being more brilliant than Ms. Zacharia feels like a pretty low Bar

[u/postmodern_werewolf → u/Radiant_Spell7710]

Came here for this comment lol, was wondering how long five days were in terms of Scaramuccis

[u/nubsta → u/postmodern_werewolf]

A mooch is 11 days so she didn't even last half actually. 0.45 mooches to be exact or 450 millimooches

[u/three3thrice → u/Radiant_Spell7710]

/r/theydidthemooch

[u/ElysiumMidknight → u/Ozymandias12]

It's simultaneously comical and pathetic. Trump's so obsessed with his IvankaBots that no one around him thought that her ridiculous legal "career" would be brought up. And no one seemed to be aware of whether she could handle public speaking since her first press briefing made it seem like a she was a child who was just learning to read.

[u/dychronalicousness → u/ElysiumMidknight]

I think her university credentials need to be reviewed. There’s no way in hell she got a law degree unassisted.

[u/simAlity → u/dychronalicousness]

IDK.... i have met some REALLY dumb lawyers

[u/-Ein → u/simAlity]

I did grand jury. There was a guy in training / assisting the prosecutor that would do like 1/10 cases. I'm really not sure that guy could read, and he was totally unprepared. We'd fly through cases with the prosecutor, then he'd step out and let this guy do a couple and the whole process came to a complete standstill.

[u/MeepingSim → u/Ozymandias12]

I yelled "Not even a MOOCH!" then my wife and I cackled about it for a few minutes.

[u/Mustard_Gap → u/MeepingSim]

She made it on camera once. The Mooch was hired for ten days but did not do a presser. This is just off the top of my head, so my recollection of TrumpWorld dingbats might not be entirely accurate 😁

[u/Bart_1980 → u/MeepingSim]

Not even half a Scaramuchi. Damn that’s fast.

[u/toomuchtostop → u/Ozymandias12]

So did I

[u/b1uejeanbaby → u/Ozymandias12]

Literally LOL’d on my quiet ass flight right now

[u/finny_d420]

SNL skit will last longer than her tenure.

[u/hfpfhhfp → u/finny_d420]

The funny thing is she was worrying about how SNL would portray her, but didn't make it to Saturday!

[u/HorseThrough → u/hfpfhhfp]

They should %100 pretend like they're about to do a skit about her then just fire her and move on.

[u/betterplanwithchan → u/HorseThrough]

Just have her walk across the stage

[u/Roklam → u/betterplanwithchan]

Oooo that's good

[u/padizzledonk → u/HorseThrough]

Bring her put to the podium and say "Hi everyone my name is Katie--" and then yank her off the podium with one of those big vaudeville hooks as shes in the middle of saying her last name lmao

[u/Manny_Bothans → u/finny_d420]

The skit should be 10 seconds long.

They should put her on one of those bungee jump things where she bounces into the press room and then is yanked back out by the bungee.

Then everybody acts like it's totally normal and nobody mentions it and they move onto the next skit.

[u/lnc_5103]

Damn didn't even last like half of a Scaramucci!

[u/tekchic → u/lnc_5103]

Do we now have to change the unit of measurement to Zacharias? :D

[u/theMistersofCirce → u/tekchic]

I propose that we hang on to the Scaramucci as a standard, recognizable unit. Kind of like how we use cups and pints even though smaller units like gills and drams exist too.

[u/jermleeds → u/theMistersofCirce]

Seconded. Also, even apart from the fact that it's prior art, it's hard to beat the phonetic perfection of a "mooch".

[u/Lubernaut → u/lnc_5103]

.3401 Scaramucci

[u/Raeezordazetoo → u/Lubernaut]

For those British among us, 1 Scaramucci is 1/5 of a Truss. Or rather 5 Scaramuccis make 1 Truss. Making a Zacharia approximately .068 of a Truss. If my math is correct. Imperial to Metric conversion is always my weak spot.

Edit to add: Making this post reminds me of this... er... gem? Oldie but... goodie? Not entirely comfortable calling it that, but those of you with a darker sense of humor should get a chuckle out of it:

https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/dlu96/new_si_unit_one_hitler/

[u/PM_ME_Y0UR_BOOBS → u/Raeezordazetoo]

Hold on, I'll get my conversion cabbage.

[u/CaptainDudeGuy → u/Lubernaut]

/r/TheyDidTheScaramath

[u/GotMoFans]

Didn’t she just move her whole family from California?

[u/toxygen001 → u/GotMoFans]

She trusted a known grifter, what did she expect?

[u/PedFrenner → u/toxygen001]

Love this for her.

[u/Hour-Ad-9508 → u/GotMoFans]

She said they were going to but it’s highly unlikely they have already. Her husband came out with her on Sunday according to her and then went back to CA.

Very hard to sell your house and find a new one within a week

[u/mashem → u/Hour-Ad-9508]

Very hard to sell your house and find a new one within a week.

Not if you do it with energy and excitement.

[u/xdsm8 → u/GotMoFans]

I thought I heard "going to" move but hadn't yet. I can only imagine those conversations with her family...such bright eyed excitement for "a new chapter" in life, and yet zero actual qualifications or capability.

[u/_bk_adv → u/GotMoFans]

Did that family include the husband and the one child she forgot she had?

[u/Important-Tomato2306 → u/_bk_adv]

Oh so when she referred to her husband as Trump, that was because she actually has a husband and not just the fantasy.

[u/opermonkey → u/GotMoFans]

she knew it was a snake when she picked it up.

[u/No_hero_here → u/GotMoFans]

Off to Fox News with her.

[u/potato_bus]

Incompetence of the administration is impressive 

[u/coffeemonkeypants]

Half a mooch.

[u/Tripping__Phillies → u/coffeemonkeypants]

A Zmooch

[u/bejammin075 → u/coffeemonkeypants]

I saw a clip of Mooch yesterday. He predicted that Zacharia would last longer than one mooch

[u/tinydancer_inurhand → u/bejammin075]

I think because it seemed like Trump gave her a vote of confidence yesterday but completely flipped today.

[u/Cruhhhhh]

Can't wait for her 3 pages long tell-all memoirs.

[u/oobbyb_61]

That’s less than a single Scaramucci.

[u/GringoTime → u/oobbyb_61]

It's almost a half-mooch

[u/xlvi_et_ii → u/GringoTime]

A bar.

It's a sub unit of the half mooch.

[u/JustHomer68]

If he fired her for lying about being a lawyer then he should be fired too. He stood up there and told us all she was a lawyer.

Edit: if she was fired for lying about passing the bar there are ways to easily vet that lie.

[u/spleeble → u/JustHomer68]

He fired her for awkward moments on camera. If she had just yelled at everyone and blamed the liberal media she would still have a job.

Lying is not something he fires people for.

[u/cavmax → u/spleeble]

True, lying was literally her job...

[u/Sturmgeshootz → u/cavmax]

Scaramucci himself was talking about that on his podcast the other day, how Leavitt was really good at standing up there and confidently and enthusiastically telling lie after lie after lie, and Zacharia stumbled over the need to be able to do that almost immediately and that she likely wouldn't last very long. Even he is probably surprised that she didn't even last half a Mooch though.

[u/g0kartmozart → u/spleeble]

She also read the “with enthusiasm” note in her script by accident and then didn’t improvise to make it seem intentional.

You’re allowed to be dumb, but you have to always double down on your mistakes.

[u/OYB2480 → u/g0kartmozart]

That was funny, but Trump has done something similar. Rubio passed him a note saying to go back to another topic (because he was rambling) and HE READ IT OUT LOUD.

[u/Tjonke → u/spleeble]

Yeah, it was the fact that she admitted the lie that made Trump fire her, no one is allowed to admit a lie or it might be catching and then all of Trump's shit gets exposed even to the MAGAts

[u/aaronhayes26 → u/JustHomer68]

She didn’t get fired because she lied, she got fired because she embarrassed him

[u/lvnlrg831 → u/JustHomer68]

I think he fired her cause she is embarrassing him. He worries more about optics than actually facts.

[u/IThinkImDumb → u/JustHomer68]

He fired her for not being a Karoline Leavitt. Like her or hate her (I do NOT like her), she was an incredible press secretary...for THIS administration. Female version of Trump, with the lies, insults, aggressive tone, etc. Her press conferences were not to inform the public, it was to praise Trump while insulting those who didn't like him.

I work in media/public relations and know a bit about this. Katie reads off of a paper, even when she speaks about things that should come "straight from the heart." Leavitt barely looked at a paper, and I'm willing to bet it wasn't a script, but bulleted talking points. Katie reading word for word from the paper leads to her awkward phrase breaks. A phrase or clause should never be broken up. If she can't finish the sentence on her own after just looking at the beginning for a brief moment, then she doesn't know the material. When she uses hand gestures, she is looking down. Using a hand gesture should coincide with directly looking at the audience.

It's weird because when she was answering questions, she totally had the ability to look up and answer the questions without reading her papers.

One more thing, when asked a question that you don't know the answer to, it's totally legit to say that you will get back to that person. However, the few times Karoline Leavitt was asked a question she didn't know the answer to, she did one of two things:

-insult the reporter for asking a stupid question

-begin and end her answer with a Trump message. For instance, I don't remember any specific questions, but let's say she didn't know details about the Trump phone. Instead of saying, "I'll have to get back to you on that," she would say something like, "We are all excited about faster data speeds, improved range, and cheaper monthly cost that Trump Mobile will bring to every American. I look forward to providing more information for each exciting updates. But I can say this, I've spoken with the developers and I can tell you, Trump Mobile will be the best plan out there on the market. Mr. President selected the best minds for the job, and I wouldn't be up here if I didn't trust him."

I made up the last scenario but it's an example of the BS that Trump wants to push

[u/VladtheInhaler999]

This cult administration has another blonde woman, under 35, that kinda resembles ivanka Trump waiting on the sidelines anyways

[u/I_only_post_here → u/VladtheInhaler999]

There's always blondes the kinda resemble Ivanka in the banana stand

[u/Le_Nabs]

So, the lettuce really did survive longer than she did

[u/njintau_fsd]

New unit of measurement:

1 Zacharia = 0.45 Scaramuccis

[u/disastermarch35 → u/njintau_fsd]

Fucking Imperial measuring system doesn't make any sense.

[u/Starbucks__Lovers]

What’s the conversion between Zacharias and Scaramuccis?

[u/placeinspace → u/Starbucks__Lovers]

1 Scaramucci = 235 hours, 11 minutes (14,111 minutes). Zacharia lasted approximately 109 hours, 37 minutes (assuming a midnight start on October 12 and ending at 1:37 PM on October 16). That puts her tenure at 0.4661 Mooches, or roughly 46.6% of a Scaramucci.

[u/TheManWhoShotTheMan → u/placeinspace]

If you convert this to the UK Truss. It works out as. 1 Truss = 49 days (1,176 hours / 70,560 minutes). Zacharia lasted approximately 109 hours, 37 minutes (6,577 minutes, assuming a midnight start on 12 October and ending at 13:37 on 16 October). That puts her tenure at 0.0932 Trusses, or roughly 9.3% of a Truss. The lettuce would still be crisp. Metric edition: 1 Truss = 4.23 megaseconds Zacharia = 394.6 kiloseconds (0.395 Ms) Fun fact: 1 Truss ≈ 5.00 Mooches, so the Scaramucci is effectively a Fifth of a Truss. A Scaramucci is a 200 millitruss (mTr) unit. So Zacharia clocks in at 93.2 millitrusses. (Uses the full 49 days in office, 6 Sept–25 Oct 2022. If you go by the resignation announcement on 20 Oct, a Truss is 44 days and Zacharia rises to about 10.4% of a Truss.)

[u/thecloudcities → u/placeinspace]

I think we can round up to 50% and call it a Halfamucci.

[u/aut0matix → u/placeinspace]

they did the math, the monster math

[u/rollerfedora → u/aut0matix]

It was a press sec bash

[u/dyslexicsuntied → u/Starbucks__Lovers]

A Zachariah is 5 days, a Mooch is 11 days. Personally I’d call it the Zachamooch

[u/I_Like_Eggs123 → u/dyslexicsuntied]

We're like halfway to completing Bohemian Rapsody

[u/bejammin075 → u/dyslexicsuntied]

That's the Imperial Mooch, but you could use the 10-day Metric Mooch. Then a Zacharia would be exactly 1/2 Mooch.

[u/Significant_Cup_238 → u/bejammin075]

I thought a Metric Mooch was 45 days, and colloquially referred to as a Truss?

[u/dvsmith → u/Starbucks__Lovers]

Is the Zachariah the new SI unit of measure?

1 Scaramucci = 2.1 Zacharias
1 Liz Truss = 8.4 Zacharias

Edit: I suggest that 5 days = 1 Zheesh

[u/Significant_Cup_238 → u/Starbucks__Lovers]

A Zacharia is a semi-mooch.

[u/SnarkOff → u/Starbucks__Lovers]

Understanding Trumpian units of time

1 Zacharia = .5 Scaramucci = 5 days

Eventually = infrastructure* week = never happening

it's very disappointing SNL is off this week.

[u/FreedomBread → u/SnarkOff]

Two weeks also = never happening

[u/aybeeayseeaybeebee → u/FreedomBread]

Two weeks is actually a Baker's Mooch.

[u/thecheesypoofs]

Why did Biden fire her ?!

Thanks Obama.

[u/Twisbi]

The fact that they’re firing her because she lied about being a lawyer but not because she can’t read is wild

[u/zchatham → u/Twisbi]

Is that the official reason theyre going with? Because it seems pathetic to claim the white house cant do a background check as well as a bunch of reporters and tik tok creators.

[u/RedditFan3510 → u/Twisbi]

I think it's after Trump saw her on Fox and Friends this morning

[u/OJs_knife]

Guess she’ll have to go back to being a lawyer. Oh wait….

[u/Impressive-Cause42]

Seriously?? Wow, trump sure knows how to hire the best!!

[u/imjustnatek]

If they're not careful, they're gonna run out of blondes.

[u/mabhatter → u/imjustnatek]

And they used all the hydrogen peroxide on the reflecting pool.  Gonna be hard to find soon. 

[u/curlyfat → u/imjustnatek]

Especially blondes with names that start with “K”!

[u/580_farm]

did she literally only have one briefing?

[u/wax_robot → u/580_farm]

More damage control interviews than briefings 😂 

[u/OkBrilliant8092]

So 9 zacharia’s equals 1 Truss for those doing metric conversions for UK. Wow

[u/rainonmepanda]

comedy gold. Cant even do a good skit if real life is funnier than one could ever be.

[u/Silo-Joe → u/rainonmepanda]

SNL now needs to rewrite their planned skit

[u/travio → u/rainonmepanda]

No SNL this week. She will have come and gone before they could even send up her horrible first and only press briefing.

[u/NerdySongwriter]

Made it half a Scaramucci.

[u/Wyevez → u/NerdySongwriter]

A Zacharia is now 1/2 a Mooch!

[u/throwawaytoday9q → u/Wyevez]

Anything but metric

[u/Rich_Housing971]

Before: "Zacharia is going to last how many Scaramuccis?"

After: "Scaramucci lasted two Zacharias."

[u/CrazyHorrsee]

What happens when you do no actual vetting and just put someone who "looks good on tv" as press secretary.

Poor Katie really thought this was her path to a Fox News anchor lol

[u/luv2ctheworld]

Jeez. The SNL writers gonna have to go into overtime for this. To be fair, they've had to since 2016.

[u/cdglasser → u/luv2ctheworld]

I'd argue it's the opposite. This stuff all writes itself - there isn't much they have to do, except maybe make it a little more believable.

[u/Leviathan117]

She didn’t even last a Scaramucci!

[u/trogdorkiller → u/Leviathan117]

The halflife of a Mooch will now be known as a Zacharia

[u/mishucat → u/Leviathan117]

I literally said “how many scaramucci’s was this” when i read the headline lmao

[u/kalidorisconan]

Not even a scaramucci!!!

[u/film_composer]

The administration steers the conversation by taking yet another loss that fundamentally has no real consequences. But hey, we have a new character to laugh at instead of talking about the millions of examples of corruption. 

EDIT: It’s not about preventing you from thinking about more than one story at the same time. It’s about diluting your attention as much as possible. 

[u/-Debugging-Duck- → u/film_composer]

I like it when people defend Trump and say that he fires so many people because they are not doing a good job and forget that Trump is the one who picked them in the first place. They are basically admitting that he is terrible at picking anybody for positions.

[u/SnoopyisCute → u/-Debugging-Duck-]

High turnover means bad leadership but they can't process that about Dear Leader.

[u/MissionCreeper]

I guarantee her thought process when she took the job was "how hard could it be?"  What a fucking idiot and this is an embarrassment.

[u/BrotherlyShove791]

The head of lettuce won easily here.

[u/rainonmepanda]

I'd move back to China if I were her ngl 😭

[u/PabloPicasshooole]

Now she has plenty of time to study for the bar exam

[u/Nautster]

Oh man, you know her name is going to be featured in pub quizzes 2 years from now.

[u/jeo123]

Wow, they joked she would set the record, but she really did it...

Good for her?

[u/calimatty]

Half a scaramocci

[u/alktrio06]

She almost made it to a half a Scaramucci

[u/Dreadpirate3]

We now have a measurement of time even shorter than a scaramucci.

[u/DankingtonMemesworth]

Seeing this on her wiki page is hysterical:

In office

October 12, 2026 - October 16, 2026

[u/newleafkratom]

..."Speaking as he was leaving the White House for a political rally in Georgia, Trump said Zacharia had been mistreated by the media and praised her as a loyal supporter.

But he made clear he did not believe Zacharia was suited to speak on his behalf as the government’s top spokesperson.

“Maybe it’s not for her,” he conceded...."

[u/Parrr8]

Only the best people.

[u/Splodingseal]

It's too bad she scrubbed all her social media accounts of her simp content. Now what is she gonna do to get attention??

[u/dakilazical_253]

Trump only hires the best people

[u/Athleticsbaby]

This truly is a clown-car administration. I fucking hate clowns.

[u/biggles86]

Where's that guy i saw a few days ago that said she was only going to last .5 mooches. He's right on the money

[u/seaurchinthenet]

We have a new benchmark. A hot Zach is less time than a Mooch

[u/rainonmepanda]

I've got produce in the fridge that lasted longer than this lady

[u/MoAngryMILF]

A Zacharia is half a Scaramucci.

[u/SpenFen]

I wonder if Pepperdine will tweet about her new career change!

[u/MrFunktasticc]

Imagine being that bad at your job that you get fired after a single press conference where you take 3 questions?

[u/APraxisPanda]

Trump: "Bring out the next Blonde, this one is broken!"

[u/steve_french07]

I have a rotisserie chicken in the fridge that lasted longer than her

[u/BrisketWrench]

She didn’t even get to finish her onboarding process

[u/xavPa-64]

Did she use too much teeth or something?

[u/emjaycue]

The head of lettuce is laughing all the way to the bank.

[u/soldat7]

Didn’t she have one of those lawttorney degrees?

[u/iguanaman8988]

Pretty sure she didn’t get fired for being bad at the job as much as being the center of all that attention/negative press.

[u/bottom → u/iguanaman8988]

So why was she getting all that press ?

(She’s bad at the job)

[u/Santa_Hates_You → u/bottom]

That and the whole lawyer/attorney thing.

[u/Whosebert]

lmao this is not a serious government, not that it wasn't evident before this

[u/TerrWolf]

How many Scaramucci's is that?

[u/Kyrthis → u/TerrWolf]

0.455 Scaramuccis

[u/Galevav → u/TerrWolf]

Just under a half. One Mooch is 11 days. I've had avocados that lasted longer than this one.

[u/motherofspoos → u/TerrWolf]

A Micro Mooch.

[u/Slow_Investment_2211]

Trump’s incompetence on full display, once again

[u/artificialterf]

Trump: “I don’t know her. Never heard of her. She was the coffee girl.”

[u/khalamar]

When you are too incompetent for this incompetent administration, it's time to reconsider some things.

[u/JonAce]

We got another fired Trump admin member before GTA6.

[u/TheNiamosDiscoBall]

It’s still crazy that this midterm is not a bigger blue wave

[u/Etzell → u/TheNiamosDiscoBall]

We're still almost a full month out from results coming in.

[u/Sure_Nefariousness56]

Even the bullshitters got tired of her.

[u/ATLfalcons27]

They are definitely going to frame this as being bullied out of a job

[u/LookWhatDannyMade]

The head of lettuce actually lasted longer… I’d say it’s unbelievable, except that it’s totally believable.

[u/triplequestionmarks]

At least she can go back to being a lawyer

[u/agent_mick]

Is she actually done or are they just saying she should reconsider