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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Arwa Mahdawi

Loves Trump, lies and conspiracies: Katie Zacharia is the perfect presidential press secretary

A blond woman smiles as she holds up her iPhone to take a picture
Katie Zacharia, the new White House press secretary. Photograph: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images

Poor Donald Trump. His (third) wife seemingly can’t bear to be near him and his (fifth) press secretary recently abandoned him to be with a baby she had only recently met.

“She decided she loved her children more than she loved Donald Trump,” the president lamented in August when Karoline Leavitt decided to step down a few months after giving birth. “I’m very upset about this. She has to go home and spend time with her children. That does happen on occasion with some people – when they love their children.”

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