Katie Zacharia and Trump’s women problem – podcast

In this episode of Guardian Australia’s US politics podcast, co-hosts Jonathan Yerushalmy and Reged Ahmad look at how Katie Zacharia broke the record for shortest tenure as White House press secretary.

They then examine the pattern of how women in the Trump administration are treated when they’re perceived to have made mistakes – versus how men seem to survive their missteps.

They also look at how the US might be changing course on Russia’s war on Ukraine.

Are relations between Donald Trump and Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelenskyy at their lowest point ever? And what happens if the US decides to take Vladimir Putin’s side in the war? Read more : Enter the Zachbot: Trump’s new press secretary malfunctions on podium debut All the president’s women: a familiar downward trajectory on Trump’s team Continue reading...