{"id":20759,"date":"2026-10-17T12:39:55","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T12:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/news\/2026\/10\/17\/trumps-press-secretary-fired-after-5-days-and-one-briefing\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T12:39:55","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T12:39:55","slug":"trumps-press-secretary-fired-after-5-days-and-one-briefing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/news\/2026\/10\/17\/trumps-press-secretary-fired-after-5-days-and-one-briefing\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s press secretary fired after 5 days and one briefing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title = \"Trump\u2019s press secretary fired after 5 days and one briefing\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cBJ4MjvRp9M?modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n <br \/>\n<br \/>President Donald Trump has fired Katie Zacharia as press secretary, advisers to the president said, ending her turbulent &#8230;<br \/>\n  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump has fired Katie Zacharia as press secretary, advisers to the president said, ending her turbulent &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":20760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4548,2894,50775,6116,50773,46382,50771,1308,50772,32,4,2,3,40404,74,10892,15,50774,1714,230,77,114,2420,1695,37033,4347,50770,38,478,84,46386,50769,198,1723,50768],"class_list":["post-20759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-admin","tag-administration","tag-briefer","tag-briefing","tag-briefing-room","tag-c-n-n","tag-cheung","tag-cnn","tag-communications","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-news","tag-fox-us-news","tag-fox-usa","tag-katie-zacharia","tag-media","tag-media-briefing","tag-news","tag-news-briefing","tag-potus","tag-president","tag-president-donald-trump","tag-president-trump","tag-press","tag-press-briefing","tag-press-corps","tag-press-secretary","tag-scaramucci","tag-trump","tag-trump-admin","tag-trump-administration","tag-west-wing","tag-wh","tag-white-house","tag-white-house-press-secretary","tag-zacharia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - 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