{"id":632730,"date":"2026-10-16T19:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T19:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/632730\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T19:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T19:54:08","slug":"katie-zacharia-dismissed-as-white-house-press-secretary-after-five-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/632730\/","title":{"rendered":"Katie Zacharia dismissed as White House press secretary after five days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Katie Zacharia will no longer serve as US president <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/donald-trump\/\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s press secretary after spending less than a week on the job, thrusting the White House\u2019s communications operation back into a state of chaos.<\/p>\n<p>Zacharia was out of the role as of Friday, according to people familiar with the matter who requested anonymity to describe the decision before it was public. It is unclear if she will take another position in the White House or in Trump\u2019s orbit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Katie Zacharia will no longer serve as US president Donald Trump\u2019s press secretary after spending less than a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[134,111,139,556,69],"class_list":["post-632730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nutrition","tag-health","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nutrition","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}