{"id":927847,"date":"2026-10-14T12:52:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T12:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/927847\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T12:52:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T12:52:12","slug":"jimmy-kimmel-takes-aim-at-donald-trumps-new-press-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/927847\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel Takes Aim at Donald Trump’s New Press Secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tJimmy Kimmel<\/a> set his sights on Katie Zacharia, the latest blonde woman to act as Donald Trump<\/a>\u2018s press secretary. On Tuesday night\u2019s episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live<\/a>, Kimmel recounted Zacharia\u2019s disastrous first day of work. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt was the first day of kindergarten for the new White House press secretary<\/a>, Katie Zacharia,\u201d Kimmel recounted. \u201cYou know, Trump\u2019s been president for quite a long time now. I think it\u2019s been about, what, 50 or 60 years? And in order to keep him awake and interested every six months they bring in a new fawning blonde dolt to add to the rotation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHe continued, \u201cThings did not get off to a great start for Malibu Katie today. Her first briefing was brief. It was only 14 minutes long, but even in that short time she accomplished exactly what she was brought in to do, which is slobber a whole tube of lip gloss all over the president\u2019s behind.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tKimmel cut to a clip of Zacharia saying she had wanted to work for Trump for a very long time. \u201cShe wanted to work for him for a very long time,\u201d Kimmel echoed. \u201cAnd really that\u2019s all it takes nowadays. All it takes it that and dressing like you\u2019re about to announce pre-boarding on a Delta Airlines flight.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter playing another clip of Zacharia reading off a piece of paper slowly and mechanically, Kimmel quipped, \u201cHer reading is good for an 11 year old. He hired a fourth grader to be press secretary!\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tThe host detailed Zacharia\u2019s background, calling her a \u201creal piece of work.\u201d \u201cShe made her name calling Democrats pedophiles on social media and giving weight to Pizzagate,\u201d he noted. \u201cSo I\u2019m sure she\u2019ll immediately call for everyone named in the Trump-Epstein files to be punished to the full extent of the law.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tKimmel aired a series of clips of Zacharia\u2019s work as a talking head in various media outlets, which included her claiming that \u201cwoke movie\u201d The Odyssey would make \u201cno money.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWell, that woke movie went on to make $1.8 billion,\u201d Kimmel said. \u201cSo we got a smart one here.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tHe added that many people are wondering how long Zacharia will last after her poor performance at the press conference on Tuesday. \u201cKatie\u2019s first outing was, as her boss might say, a total disaster,\u201d Kimmel concluded. \u201cI was impressed though: Do you know how hard it is to become Trump\u2019s worst press secretary that quickly?\u201d <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tZacharia previously served as a junior spokesperson for former Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem. She was tapped to replace Karoline Leavitt as press secretary earlier this week, making her the sixth person to take the White House podium under Trump. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel set his sights on Katie Zacharia, the latest blonde woman to act as Donald Trump\u2018s press…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":927848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,2490,134,4625,59932,28684,427],"class_list":["post-927847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-donald-trump","tag-entertainment","tag-jimmy-kimmel","tag-jimmy-kimmel-live","tag-late-night-tv","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=927847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/927848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=927847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=927847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}