The departure of Katie Zacharia after five days as US President Donald Trump’s press secretary is more important for what it says about the disorder inside the White House than anything else.
All the jokes about how she lasted “less than half a Scaramucci” remind us that Mr Trump has lost press secretaries before – Anthony Scaramucci lasted 11 days in 2017, early in Mr Trump’s first term. But things are different now. Mr Trump is older, and faces the imminent prospect of becoming a doubly lame duck president.
