Trump offers Katie Zacharia job as new White House press secretary
Trump offers Katie Zacharia job as new White House press secretary
Erin Mansfield and Zac Anderson, USA TODAYFri, October 9, 2026 at 6:22 PM UTC
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President Donald Trump is offering conservative commentator Katie Zacharia, an attorney who previously worked at the Department of Homeland Security, the job of White House press secretary, a White House official said.
The high-profile position driving White House messaging has been open for more than a month since Karoline Leavitt left the post at the end of August.
Zacharia is a senior communications advisor at Trump Media and Technology Group, the company that runs Truth Social, according to her LinkedIn and X biographies. She also worked as a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security, has appeared as a commentator on Newsmax, Fox News and CNN, interned at the Republican National Committee and is the general counsel for Fix California, a conservative group founded by Ric Grenell, Trump's special missions envoy and is the former president of the Kennedy Center.
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A public biography says Zacharia attended Pepperdine University's Caruso School of Law and Seaver College, both in the Los Angeles area. She would be the seventh woman in the role in a row. The past six press secretaries have been women, and the last man in the job was Sean Spicer, who held the role for six months at the beginning of Trump's first term.
Zacharia is stepping into a key role as one of the most visible figures in the Trump administration, handling media for a president who frequently complains about the administrations press coverage and is keenly interested in his public image. Leavitt, a combative and energetic figure at the White House Press Briefing Room podium, has been a close Trump adviser. The president frequently praised her and described her as "one of my most trusted aides."
Contributing: Joey Garrison
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