Scaramucci Weighs In on Katie Zacharia's Survival Odds

Kevin Lamarque / REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci said the “clock is running” on Katie Zacharia’s tenure as press secretary after a rocky Tuesday debut.

“Thus far 1/11th of a Scaramucci,” he wrote in a post on X, referencing his own notoriously short term.

Scaramucci, who served just 11 days in President Donald Trump’s first administration, also shared a meme comparing Zacharia’s time in office to a head of lettuce’s shelf life.

“I want her to get past the lettuce,” he said in the caption.

Scaramucci was fired in July 2017, days after he gave an expletive-laden rant to a New Yorker reporter, mistakenly believing it was off the record.

Since then, he has become a vocal Trump critic and a co-host of “The Rest is Politics” podcast with journalist Katty Kay.

After a commenter suggested he was being rude to Zacharia, Scaramucci insisted he “[wished] her well.” “The administration is an abomination, but I don’t wish for her demise,” he said.

“As an American, I am exercising my right to explain how damaging they are to their fellow Americans and the world.

But I don’t want to see her fired.

However, that is a job where you have to lie.” Zacharia’s first outing as press secretary drew criticism from both administration insiders and critics, who pointed out her stilted performance and heavy reliance on a script during an unusually short 14-minute briefing.

At one point, she also appeared to confuse her husband with the president.

Reporters also pressed Zacharia, who claims to be an attorney, on her legal background.

She refused to say where she passed the bar exam, saying only that she did it when she moved to China.

“I practiced international transactional law, with all the appropriate credentials,” she told POLITICO’s Dasha Burns.