2026-10-16T17:16:48.489Z / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
作者：克里斯汀·霍姆斯、阿莱娜·特里尼、凯文·利普塔克
更新于47分钟前
更新于美国东部时间2026年10月16日下午2:16
发布于美国东部时间2026年10月16日下午1:16
白宫新闻秘书凯蒂·扎卡里亚于10月13日在白宫布雷迪新闻发布厅主持首次新闻发布会并回答记者提问。奇普·索莫德维拉/盖蒂图片社
总统唐纳德·特朗普已解雇凯蒂·扎卡里亚的白宫新闻秘书职务，多名总统顾问证实，扎卡里亚担任白宫最高发言人的任期仅一周便宣告终结，期间风波不断。
特朗普早些时候告诉记者，他曾要求扎卡里亚重新考虑自己的职位，几乎已经宣告她短暂的任职即将结束。
“老实说，如果我是你，我会重新考虑，”特朗普称他在周五早上对扎卡里亚如是说。
他表示，等他返回白宫后两人再进行谈话，并且会将决定权交给她。但他对这位处境艰难的新闻秘书并未表现出特别的鼓励态度。
“凯蒂，你需要这份工作吗？”他称自己曾对她问道，“我觉得你不需要。”
这对上任仅一周的扎卡里亚而言是一次明确的不信任表态。周二她在新闻发布厅的首次亮相表现不稳，加上外界持续对其背景提出质疑，引发了媒体和特朗普团队其他助手的大量审视。一名白宫官员告诉CNN，扎卡里亚正“过渡离开”新闻秘书一职，一名特朗普顾问表示，她将在未来几天内离开白宫。
特朗普在离开白宫前往佐治亚州参加政治集会时发表讲话称，媒体一直不公平对待扎卡里亚，并称赞她是忠诚的支持者。
但他明确表示，他认为扎卡里亚并不适合作为政府最高发言人代表他发声。
“或许这份工作并不适合她，”他坦言。
一名接近总统的消息人士告诉CNN，特朗普仍然尊重并喜欢扎卡里亚这个人，并坚称特朗普对自己与扎卡里亚谈话的描述是准确的。
该消息人士和另一名人士还透露，扎卡里亚和她的家人将于周五晚上在副总统官邸与副总统J·D·万斯及其家人共进晚餐，这一信号表明本届政府仍然对她评价颇高。
扎卡里亚凭借电视上的保守派评论员身份引起了特朗普的注意，在其他候选人因曾发表批评特朗普的言论被认定不符合任职资格后，她很快得到了聘用。
然而，她缺乏经验的问题很快暴露无遗。周二在白宫讲台前，她显得紧张不安，仅回答了三个问题。当天晚些时候，她在被问及在哪里通过律师资格考试时给出了令人困惑的答复，因为特朗普在宣布聘用她时曾将她描述为一名“律师”。
事实证明，她从未通过律师资格考试，她在福克斯新闻频道一系列紧张意外的采访中解释道。她还含糊其辞，不愿明确是否会再次出现在新闻发布厅。
这一切都让白宫内部愈发质疑扎卡里亚究竟还能在这个职位上待多久。
两名熟悉相关讨论的消息人士称，特朗普最初并不像他的一些顾问那样认为扎卡里亚首次新闻发布会的表现糟糕。但在她随后的采访——尤其是周四晚与肖恩·汉尼提一同出现在福克斯新闻频道的节目中——以及之后他与盟友的谈话让他确信，让她继续担任该职位是站不住脚的。
一名直接了解特朗普言论的人士告诉CNN，特朗普本周曾对盟友和顾问表示，或许她“还没准备好登上大舞台”。
她五天的任期最终比安东尼·斯卡拉穆奇的还要短。2017年，斯卡拉穆奇担任白宫通讯总监仅11天，如今这一任期时长常被用作衡量处境艰难的白宫官员任职时长的参照标准。
本文为正在跟进的报道，将持续更新。
Trump fires Katie Zacharia as White House press secretary after five days, advisers say
2026-10-16T17:16:48.489Z / CNN
By Kristen Holmes, Alayna Treene, Kevin Liptak
Updated 47 min ago
Updated Oct 16, 2026, 2:16 PM ET
PUBLISHED Oct 16, 2026, 1:16 PM ET
White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia takes questions during her first briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, on October 13.
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
President Donald Trump has fired Katie Zacharia as press secretary, advisers to the president said, ending her turbulent week-long stint as the White House’s top spokesperson.
Trump told reporters earlier he had asked Zacharia to reconsider her role, all but declaring her brief tenure in the job over.
“Honestly, if I were you, I’d reconsider,” Trump said he told Zacharia on Friday morning.
He said they would speak when he returned to the White House and he would leave the decision to her. But he did not sound particularly encouraging of his embattled press secretary.
“Katie, do you need this?” he said he told her. “I don’t think you need this.”
It was a remarkable vote of no confidence in Zacharia, who entered the job a week ago. Her shaky debut in the briefing room on Tuesday and persistent questions about her background had led to immense scrutiny from the media and fellow Trump aides. A White House official told CNN that Zacharia was “transitioning out” of the press secretary role, and a Trump adviser said she’d be leaving the White House in the next few days.
Speaking as he was leaving the White House for a political rally in Georgia, Trump said Zacharia had been mistreated by the media and praised her as a loyal supporter.
But he made clear he did not believe Zacharia was suited to speak on his behalf as the government’s top spokesperson.
“Maybe it’s not for her,” he conceded.
A source close to the president told CNN that Trump still respects and likes Zacharia as a person, insisting the way Trump described the conversation with Zacharia was accurate.
That source and another also said that Zacharia and her family are having dinner with Vice President JD Vance and his family Friday night at the vice president’s residence, a signal that the administration still holds her in high regard.
Zacharia had captured Trump’s attention as a conservative commentator on television, and her hiring occurred quickly after other candidates were deemed ineligible because of critical comments they made about Trump.
Her inexperience was revealed quickly, however. At the White House lectern on Tuesday, she appeared nervous and only took three questions. Later in the day, she offered a confusing answer to a question about where she had passed her bar exam, since she’d been described by Trump as an “attorney” when he announced her hiring.
As it turned out, she had never passed the bar exam, she explained in a series of surprisingly tense interviews on Fox News. And she was vague about whether she would appear again in the briefing room.
It all led to deepening questions inside the White House about how long Zacharia could possibly last in the job.
Trump did not initially think Zacharia’s performance at her first press briefing was as bad as some of his advisers had, two sources familiar with the discussions said. However, her interviews that followed — specifically her Thursday night appearance on Fox News with Sean Hannity — and conversations he subsequently had with his allies convinced him that it was untenable for her to remain in the role, they added.
Trump remarked to allies and advisers this week that perhaps she “wasn’t ready for prime time,” one person with direct knowledge of his comments told CNN.
Her five-day-long tenure ultimately came in shorter than that of Anthony Scaramucci, whose 11-day tenure as White House communications director in 2017 is now used as a measuring stick for the relative longevity of embattled White House officials.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
发表回复