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凯蒂·扎卡里亚将“逐步卸任”，其任职仅举办过一场新闻发布会
作者：阿什利·J·迪梅拉、彼得·达布罗斯卡，福克斯新闻
发布时间：2026年10月16日 美国东部时间下午1:23 | 更新时间：2026年10月16日 美国东部时间下午1:57
特朗普称扎卡里亚应“重新考虑”新闻秘书一职
唐纳德·特朗普总统就凯蒂·扎卡里亚担任白宫新闻秘书一事向媒体表态，表示他曾建议她“重新考虑”这一职位。
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据一位知情人士向福克斯新闻数字频道证实，凯蒂·扎卡里亚在任职仅7天后便将辞去白宫新闻秘书一职，其上任首周便风波不断。
唐纳德·特朗普总统告诉扎卡里亚“重新考虑”该职位，他周五在南草坪对媒体成员透露，他曾对她说：“如果你不想做，就不必勉强……我认为你应该重新考虑。”
一位白宫高级官员告诉福克斯新闻，凯蒂目前正“逐步卸任”该职务。
此事发生之际，扎卡里亚为期一周的任期内，外界对其法律资质的审查不断升级，周二她在白宫记者团面前的首秀也状况频出。批评人士针对扎卡里亚近期试图挽回颓势的采访展开抨击。
扎卡里亚于10月9日被任命为新闻秘书，几天后的10月13日首次走上白宫讲台举行新闻发布会。这场发布会仅持续14分钟，扎卡里亚只回答了三个问题。
白宫新闻秘书凯蒂·扎卡里亚倾听唐纳德·特朗普总统与记者交谈，摄于2026年10月13日周二白宫南草坪，当时特朗普即将登上前往阿拉斯加的海军一号直升机。（汤姆·威廉姆斯/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via 盖蒂图片社）
“也许这份工作并不适合她，”特朗普周五在白宫外简短发言时承认道。
当被问及这一最新动向是否意味着特朗普解雇了扎卡里亚时，总统改口称：“不，不。我希望她能过上好日子。”
“她遭到了媒体的刻薄对待，”特朗普补充道。
周四晚在《汉尼蒂秀》节目中，扎卡里亚被问及能否自称律师。她承认自己并未通过律师资格考试，也从未获得美国的律师执照。
“我当时已经预先报名了律师资格考试，基本上在夏天的时候，我就知道自己会在中国生活，考试结果也就无关紧要了。我参加了考试，只是不想让自己处于缺考状态，”她说道。
白宫新闻秘书凯蒂·扎卡里亚2026年10月13日周二在华盛顿特区白宫詹姆斯·S·布雷迪新闻发布厅向媒体发表讲话。这是扎卡里亚的首场新闻发布会。（塞缪尔·科鲁姆/ pooled/法新社华盛顿分社）
扎卡里亚还被问及她表现糟糕的首场发布会。
“我觉得自己真的是临危受命，准备时间非常有限，”扎卡里亚说，“考虑到我上任可能还不到8小时，早上才拿到 briefing book（新闻发布会材料），我觉得自己已经尽了最大努力，为美国民众呈现了当天的信息，肖恩。”
扎卡里亚的首秀因多处口误遭到批评，其中包括她误将丈夫称为“我的总统”后随即纠正自己，以及发布会时长过短——14分钟内仅回答了三名记者的提问。
卡罗琳·利维特的首场白宫新闻发布会持续了近47分钟，而肖恩·斯派塞的首场发布会则长达约79分钟。2017年莎拉·赫卡比·桑德斯担任新闻秘书时的首场发布会时长约为23分钟。
特朗普在数周猜测后任命利维特接任新闻秘书——她并非首次接触“让美国再次伟大”阵营
本周早些时候，一位白宫官员告诉MS NOW，扎卡里亚的任期可能比安东尼·斯卡拉穆奇更短。斯卡拉穆奇担任唐纳德·特朗普总统的白宫通讯主管时，以臭名昭著的短暂任期著称，2017年7月上任仅10天便被解雇。
“走上讲台并不容易，但她开局不利，”这位不愿透露姓名的白宫官员说，“她需要迅速大幅提升表现，否则就会打破斯卡拉穆奇的纪录。”
扎卡里亚显然未能在本周短暂的媒体露面中挽回局面——她原本试图澄清外界对其律师资质的质疑——最终在周五被赶出岗位，再也没有机会站上讲台。
白宫新闻秘书凯蒂·扎卡里亚2026年10月13日抵达华盛顿特区白宫詹姆斯·S·布雷迪新闻发布厅准备新闻发布会。（奇普·索莫德维利亚/盖蒂图片社）
周三，当福克斯新闻数字频道就白宫 reportedly 曝出的斯卡拉穆奇对比言论寻求置评时，白宫方面重申支持扎卡里亚。
“凯蒂是团队中出色且优秀的一员。她具备独特的资质，聪慧过人，能够帮助向美国民众通报特朗普总统及其政府正在推进的所有利好事项，她担任新闻秘书的工作会做得非常出色，”白宫通讯主任史蒂文·张告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。
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白宫X账号@PressSec此前由利维特管理，之后转由白宫新闻办公室接手，至今未切换给扎卡里亚，且自10月7日以来从未发布过任何内容。
扎卡里亚曾被特朗普在任命时称为律师，此前她担任特朗普媒体与科技集团的高级通讯顾问，该集团运营着总统的社交媒体平台Truth Social。
她还在今年早些时候担任过六个月的国土安全部公共事务副助理部长及发言人。
福克斯新闻的彼得·杜西为本报道贡献了内容。
阿什利·J·迪梅拉为福克斯新闻数字频道报道政治新闻。
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Trump’s new press secretary out of the job just days after rocky debut
2026-10-16T13:23:14-04:00 / Fox News
Katie Zacharia is ‘transitioning out’ of her role after holding only one press briefing
By Ashley J. DiMella, Peter D’Abrosca, Fox News
Published October 16, 2026 1:23pm EDT | Updated October 16, 2026 1:57pm EDT
Trump says Katie Zacharia should ‘reconsider’ press secretary role
President Donald Trump speaks to press about Katie Zacharia’s role as White House press secretary, saying he advised her to ‘reconsider’ the role.
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Katie Zacharia is leaving her role as White House press secretary after only seven days following a rocky first week on the job, a source familiar confirmed to Fox News Digital.
President Donald Trump told Zacharia to “reconsider” the role, revealing to members of the press on the South Lawn on Friday that he told her: “You don’t have to do this if you don’t want to… I think you should reconsider.”
A senior White House official tells Fox News that Katie is now “transitioning out” of the role.
It comes as her one-week tenure was marked by mounting scrutiny over her legal credentials and a rocky debut before the White House press corps on Tuesday. Critics have taken aim at Zacharia over her recent interviews attempting to recover from the bumpy start.
Zacharia was named to the role Oct. 9 and stepped behind the White House podium for her first press briefing just days later on Oct. 13. The briefing lasted 14 minutes and Zacharia took only three questions.
White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia listens to President Donald Trump talk with reporters on the South Lawn of the White House before boarding Marine One en route to Alaska on Tuesday, October 13, 2026.(Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
“Maybe it’s not for her,” Trump acknowledged in his brief remarks outside the White House on Friday.
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When pressed if this update meant that Trump fired Zacharia, the president walked back. “No no. I want her to have a good life,” he said.
“She’s been brutalized by the media,” Trump added.
During an appearance on “Hannity” Thursday night, Zacharia was pressed over whether she could refer to herself as an attorney. Zacharia admitted she did not pass the bar exam and never obtained a law license in the United States.
“I had already pre-registered for the bar exam, and basically during the summer, I knew I would be living in China and the result of the bar would be inconsequential. I sat for it because I didn’t want to have a withdraw status,” she said.
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White House press secretary Katie Zacharia speaks to the media in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on Tuesday, October. 13, 2026 in Washington, D.C. The briefing was Zacharia’s first.(Samuel Corum/Pool/FTWP)
Zacharia was also pressed on her fumbled briefing.
“What I feel is I really stepped up to the plate with very little prep time,” Zacharia said. “Given the fact that I’d been on the job less than maybe eight hours and had a briefing book in the morning, I feel like I did my very best, Sean, to deliver for the American people that day.”
Zacharia’s debut drew scrutiny over several verbal stumbles, including a moment when she mistakenly referred to her husband as “my president” before correcting herself, as well as the briefing’s brevity, during which she took questions from just three journalists in 14 minutes.
Karoline Leavitt’s first White House press briefing lasted nearly 47 minutes, while Sean Spicer’s debut ran roughly 79 minutes. While Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ first briefing as press secretary lasted about 23 minutes in 2017.
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A White House official told MS NOW earlier this week that she could end up with a shorter tenure than Anthony Scaramucci, whose notoriously brief stint as President Donald Trump’s White House communications director lasted just 10 days before he was ousted in July 2017.
“Getting behind the podium is tough, but she got off on the wrong foot,” the unnamed White House official said. “She needs to get much better, fast, otherwise she’ll break Scaramucci’s record.”
Zacharia clearly did not recover enough in her short media sprint this week — where she attempted to clear up confusion about her lawyer credentials — and instead was pushed out of the job on Friday without another shot at the podium.
White House press secretary Katie Zacharia arrives to a news briefing in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House on Oct. 13, 2026, in Washington, D.C.(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
The White House doubled down on supporting Zacharia Wednesday when asked by Fox News Digital for comment on the Scaramucci comparison reportedly coming from the White House.
“Katie is a fabulous and wonderful addition to the team. She is uniquely qualified and whip smart to help inform the American people about all the great things President Trump and his Administration have been doing, and she will do an incredible job as Press Secretary,” White House Communications Director Steven Cheung told Fox News Digital.
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The White House X account @PressSec, formerly run by Leavitt before switching to White House Press Office, never switched over to Zacharia, and has still not posted since Oct. 7.
Zacharia, whom Trump described as an attorney when announcing her appointment, previously served as senior communications adviser to Trump Media & Technology Group, which operates the president’s social media platform, Truth Social.
She also served earlier this year as deputy assistant secretary for public affairs and a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security for just six weeks.
Fox News’ Peter Doocy contributed to this report.
Ashley J. DiMella reports on politics for Fox News Digital.
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