Gavin Newsom Ruthlessly Trolls Trump’s New Mouthpiece
REUTERS/ Annabelle Gordon/ Kevin Lamarque California Gov.
Gavin Newsom has ruthlessly trolled Donald Trump’s new White House Press Secretary after she was torn apart by Sean Hannity.
Katie Zacharia, 41, appeared on the Fox host’s show on Thursday night for what she may have thought would be an easy ride.
But Hannity did not go easy on Zacharia—and left her squirming as he quizzed her on why she only took three questions from conservative outlets during her train-wreck debut press briefing on Tuesday.
Trump nemesis Newsom capitalized on the press secretary’s stilted performance in a post on X .
“We’re sorry, America — we did not send our brightest to Washington,” his press office wrote of Zacharia, who was born and studied in California.
Newsom has spent months ridiculing the 80-year-old president and his policies, and he apparently now has a new target.
The California governor reposted a clip of Zacharia buckling under pressure during an awkward seven-minute interview with the conservative host.
The interview came just two days after her disastrous first press briefing, during which she accidentally referred to the president as her husband.
When asked by Hannity why she didn’t take more questions from the press, Zacharia fumbled over her answer .
We’re sorry, America — we did not send our brightest to Washington. https://t.co/lZVzSQYETk — Governor Newsom Press Office (@GovPressOffice) October 16, 2026 “Yeah, so what I would say is, I would absolutely be very well prepared on the briefing, Sean, and I would love, and I do love questions, and I would love to build a relationship with all of those members of the press corps, so there’s a substantive, ah, component to us having an ability to interact,” Zacharia said, as Fox News began drowning her out with music to signal an ad break.
Zacharia went on: “I will be very prepared, Sean, and I will step up to the duty President Trump has asked me to as press secretary.” Newsom wasn’t the only one to savage the White House press secretary for her interview performance.
“holy s--t, now a stammering Zacharia is struggling through a puff interview with Hannity.
Even Hannity is clearly not impressed,” journalist Aaron Rupar wrote on X, saying in another post that the interview was “a disaster” for Zacharia.
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