Press secretary Katie Zacharia's first White House briefing ran 14 minutes, according to a Washington Examiner column. The column says she spent eight of them reading remarks and took questions only from Breitbart, Fox News and the Daily Mail.
Catch up
On Oct. 9 Trump named Truth Social adviser Katie Zacharia press secretary, replacing Karoline Leavitt, who left in late August (CNN, Time). Before her debut, CNN reported on her past social media posts, and the White House had held no formal briefing since Vice President JD Vance's on Sept. 3, per Time.