Trump THROWS His New Press Secretary UNDER THE BUS. "Is This For You, Katie?"

Dan, we got some big breaking news, newly minted White House press secretary, Katie Zechariah, is now the former newly minted White House press secretary, Katie Zechariah, after five very unimpressive days. So this comes after her disastrous first press briefing on Tuesday, and there was this growing mess over Zechariah calling herself a lawyer in an attorney, which she hadn't passed the bar exam, and then this embarrassing interview with Sean Hannity of all people on Thursday night. I think the Times, the New York Times broke the news of her departure, but it was pretty clear that the writing was on the wall after Trump said this. It's been so nasty there. I've never seen anything like it. I said to her, honestly, if I were you, I'd reconsider. You'd think about it, but I would reconsider. You got a beautiful husband and family. I met the family yesterday. Beautiful kids is like from a picture postcard, and I said, you should reconsider because you don't want to go through it. What do you want her to do? I just wanted to be happy. Look, she has suffered over the last few days. I have a good thing. Maybe it's stuck for her. Dan Fergai, who built his entire brand around firing people. He sure is a wimp about actually doing it. Yeah, not exactly the toughest guy in the world. But look, if there's one thing I know about Trump, he just wants people to be happy. That's always been his thing. He just wants Katie to be happy with her. He is a man who understands the importance of spending time with your children, whose whose names he barely is remembers, and so he just wants her to be home with her family. That's just a nice guy. Katie, yeah, you moved across the country. You're humiliated in front of the national news media in the world, really. But I just want you to be happy. Yeah, he always talks about, he's so passive about these things. He talks about this disaster like it's it. She just arrived at the West Wing and it was like foisted upon him when all the reporting says that he personally selected her because he saw her on like news max a bunch of times and went around Susie Wiles, his chief of staff, who by the way, were now on day two of reading stories in Politico about Trump calling around to see if he should fire her. So like, this seems like it was entirely his decision. Yeah, he completely owns this. It makes no sense. This is truly an epic failure in every way, shape or form. They hired someone who was obviously unqualified. They set that person up to fail by sending her out there. I mean, the timeline here is unbelievable. According to her from these interviews, she got hired on Friday, moved from California on Saturday, then they had her brief on Tuesday. And she said the briefing materials came late on Monday because it was a holiday. Yes. Katie, that's not normally how it works. Like, when we got to the White House, Robert Gibbs before his first press briefing as White House press secretary had done like literally months of preparation and murder. Practice briefing. Yeah, like she was bad at it. She was bad at like literally just reading. But in defense of Katie's act or I like, no one would be good at doing a White House press briefing if they'd literally not prepared it all. Like, that's just not how it works. I mean, her experience is taking questions on Newsmax. And by the way, if you'd like to listen to podcasts from people that were not fired from their White House jobs, please subscribe to Potsay of America here on YouTube. It really helps us out a lot. It's free and you help us build a progressive counterweight to the right wing crap coming from the White House and coming from Fox News. It's like, John and I were talking about this yesterday on Potsay America. I've never heard of her name before this. Like, just not only she's part of the Fox News expanded universe where she's been on, even this is not qualified. She's named like she's on CNN, like Scott Jennings, like fighting with Democrats every. Oh, no, she's on CNN. Brian Tyler Cohen has been scrapped with her. It's just not in prime time. I've just never I've never never seen or never heard her name before this. Like it takes someone like that. Like they're like they're different paths to this job. You can be a very seasoned media person who's done really, really tough interviews. You know, you could be like Tony Snow, who was the Fox News Fox News Sunday host to what to become George Bush is pressing. George W. Bush is prosecutatory. You could be a just like like Robert Gibbs was like just a very seasoned campaign communications professional. You could be someone with a lot of White House experience like John and insider, right? Like Robert Gibbs had spent the better part of the last decade with Barack Obama, knew him inside and out could speak for him without going to ask Katie Zachary just shows up from California one day and like barely knows Trump. There's no chance you could have found they put her out to do a briefing before she could identify where all the bathrooms in the West Wing were. Like I do think this is I don't want to get into. You definitely don't want to use the one outside of vice president's office. I'll just say that. No, no, no minds in there. No, nothing says more about being vice president of states as you don't have your own private bathroom. That's either here or there. I think it is pretty clear that someone set her up to fail. I mean, there's only two options here. Either people were so pissed that Trump just hired this random person for no reason, ignoring people who have worked for him for years, who've wanted this job, who are more qualified and they said, you know what? It's yours. Just go do it and let her just give her all the rope. Or the White House is so fucking competent, takes the briefing so unseriously, cares so little about answering questions correctly and appropriately, inaccurately that they just were like, yeah, of course anyone can do this on a Tuesday. Yeah, that's fair. Although they did hire Sean Spicer to be the first guy, and he did all that prep and then shouted at us in an ill-fitting suit about crowd sizes. So I guess, you know, but he like there are some people who with all the prep in the world and all experience world still can't do the job. Sean Spicer is one of those people because he had been a Republican flag for a hundred years at that point. He'd been communicator at the RNC. He couldn't do it under any scenario. But this was this she never had a chance to succeed. No, I doubt she would be fair. Given all the chances the world didn't just strike me if she was going to nail this job, but like just from the get go. Yeah, they they absolutely set her up to fail. Besides being terrible at briefing the press though, Katie Zechari was also facing this controversy over whether she was a lawyer or an attorney. She repeatedly identified herself as a lawyer or as an attorney, but it turns out she failed the bar exam and then she moved to China. And then so when reporters in front of Trump were like, so what state did you pass the bar exam in? She said, when I moved to China, which is not a state in the union last time I checked every part of that sense was incorrect. She did not pass the bar in China. It's not the United States. And also foreign citizens can't be lawyers in China. I saw I can't remember where I read it, but some news reports said that the role she played at this, you know, a large blue chip Chinese law firm was more like a paid intern. Pots of America breaking news is brought to you by Zipper Cruder. Let's be honest. Zipper Cruder is everywhere. Why? 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There's a lot of people in this White House administration that lie all the time about everything about themselves, about their resumes. For some reason, though, this lie, this white lie, not a white lie, this significant lie seemed to bother a lot of negative types, including Sean Hannity, who asked her about it on his show on Thursday night. Let's watch a cut down of what was a pretty brutal like six or seven minute interview. First moment as press secretary, it's been widely panned. I'm sure you're aware. It only lasted 14 minutes. You only took three questions. Questions about your legal background, calling yourself a lawyer. You went to pepperedine law school, but you did not pass the bar exam, correct? Correct. Yes. But did you ever take the bar exam a second time or third time? No. Okay. Why only three questions in 14 minutes? And what might you do a little differently going forward? I can give you some unsolicited advice that's never going to be a friendly room to you. Yeah. So what I would say is I would absolutely be very well prepared on the briefing, Sean. And I would love and I do love questions. And I would love to build a relationship with all of those members of the press corps. So there is a substantive component to us having an ability to interact. And I will be very prepared, Sean. And I will step up to the duty of President Trump has asked me to his press secretary. All right. Katie, we wish you the best of luck in the new position and we do appreciate you coming off. Thank you. Oh, Sean, I do love questions. I like how they play her off like an Oscar speech. By the way, I've never seen that happen before. So she to a Trump aid to a very newsworthy like top way to us official. Also, like of the 14 minutes, she took three questions. They were all from friends in the room. It was bright barred Fox News in the daily mail, but you know, who's counting. Dan, like, my read on people like Sean Hannity suddenly caring about like the veracity of past statements was that he figures she's terrible at this job. Let's use this as a pretext to get her out of there. But what did you make of this? That's my takes. Well, Sean, Sean Hannity, obviously, he loves Donald Trump. He obviously does not care about lying in politics or in inflating one's resume does not care about that. The people in the White House do not care about that. If she was good at her job, they would have gone to the mattress to defend her over this very stupid thing. But I think Sean Hannity saw that, saw the way you, like if you can't handle this, forget it, forget what she said in the past. But the way she, how poorly she handled it in the aftermath of it coming out, is the sign that she cannot do this job. That is failing communications 101. And so he is trying to save Trump from himself. I saw some people on Twitter point out that Hannity did a similar thing to Scott Pruitt who was Trump's very corrupt EPA administrator in the first term. And Scott Pruitt went on to Sean's show. I think he was doing a, like a friendly rehab interview. And Sean Hannity took him down because he came to the conclusion that Scott Pruitt was bad for Donald Trump. So he was not going to let him off the hook. And I think he decided this person, it's not up to the task. This is not good that she's there. And I'm going to, I'm going to try to end this thing while I can. The memo went out because she was on Fox and Friends this morning, and they also gave her a hard interview, which has actually never happened in the history of Fox and Friends. Yeah, yeah, that's right. I mean, I also wonder like Sean Hannity and Trump talk all the time. They like, you know, put each other to bed at night. There's not, there's a version of this story where Trump's like, you know, give her the business a little bit. See if she's good. Help me push her out. Or yeah, or like, rotester for me. No. Well, anyway, so just, so Anthony Scaremucci is the big winner from all of this because she has beaten his record by a lot. Was it 10 days? Was that, was that what a mooch is? I really have tried really hard to forget this over the last nine years of my life. I saw someone on Twitter who pointed out that one scare moochie is 2.75 Zacharias. Okay. So maybe that was the new unit of measurement of professional incompetence in the White House. That is the new math, five days. So we're back to square one Dan. Like, is it going to be Scott Jennings next? Did they even bother picking a press secretary? Like, certainly, I don't know why you would bother to do this before the midterms. Like Donald Trump is going to be out on the road. He does like three, he's going to be doing rally speeches presumably, and they'll want that to be the focus of the administration's message. But also when he's sitting at the White House, he will do like two, three press evils a day. We know this 'cause we're stuck watching them half the time. Like, he is his own spokesperson. The way they handle the press, you don't need them. Like, Trump is his own spokesperson in a normal White House. The press secretary's job on their big news days where they will be the face of the White House or the president's not out and they have to handle all the hard questions or talk about whatever's happened in the world that matters. But on a day-to-day regular basis, they're really just answering and tracking down. A lot of stuff that's very important to various news outlets, but it's not part of the daily conversation and the things we're talking about on the podcast. A lot of international news stuff, confirming whether the president is going to meet with this person or not. Like, they are a conduit of information for the press, and it is their job to stand there, three, four times a week and take those questions. The White House does not care about answering those questions. They're helping the press do their job, which is sort of the traditional role the press secretary is to sit between the president and the press and try to help both do their jobs. They don't care about that. So I'm not entirely sure what the purpose is, other than Trump really likes to take about an hour to an hour and a half in the middle of his day to watch television. And this is, you know, maybe he doesn't like what comes on, some of the, on Fox in the middle of the day sometimes. And so this is what he wants to watch. But I think that's the only reason why they'll do it. Yeah, he likes to watch me TV. And it's like when Will Cain gets preempted or whatever by the person, I'm sure he likes that. Yeah, there is a whole way to stuff still there that will do like the kind of logistics, the care and feeding, the responding to questions, the extent that they do this. There just won't be an obvious person to brief at the podium. Maybe they'll keep having like, you know, JD Vance do it, or Marco Rubio, or other senior officials, or maybe they'll just decide they do not care. But, you know, I don't know that it matters at all. The context of this, I think that it doesn't, does it matter to the world? No, the press secretary used to be such an important thing that even after the 2006 elections, part of Bush's sort of reset was to get a new press secretary. It's when he got to any snow and got rid of Scott McClellan. What I think here is that, I hope it punctures forever the idea that this is a well-run White House. Or at least a better White House. This is absolute rank incompetence of the highest level. And they like, they are, they are fucked up. They run more, they fucked up. They come fucked up with something. But the stuff they can control, they're also fucking up. And in every day between now and the midterm, so they're just wasting an opportunity to do something productive. I don't know what that productive thing would be. They haven't found it to date. But it's just, it's true incompetence. Trump said in this same media value, he kind of tossed Zachariah that Susie Wiles was staying and would be there for a long time. Whether she stays there, she doesn't. I hope we can all now dispense with the idea that she is doing a great job as she does to have because she is absolutely not. A press secretary was hired, and then crashed and burned on her watch without her ever really knowing or understanding. And that's not a side of a strong chief of staff. - That is not a good chief of staff. Yeah, they just lit on fire a week's worth of messaging opportunities because they hired a totally incompetent person to be the way to us press secretary. And that is all you need to know about how this place was run. All right, thank you everybody for watching this episode of Pots of America here on YouTube. Please subscribe, it helps us out a lot. We're trying to build a progressive counterweight to all the right wing crap you find on YouTube. And when you subscribe, it helps us grow and get good information to people that is not from Katie Zachariah's voice. So thank you. - Bye everyone.