Oct 17, 2026 · 52 min · 7 segments
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This is after weeks of Karoline Leavitt, the former press secretary, leaving the White House, and she was fairly decent at the job.
In my opinion, uh, Kayleigh McEnany was the best.
Uh, she was able to not only go back and forth with reporters, not in an annoying way, but in a way that she was able to stand her ground.
And so part of being the press secretary is to defend the administration, at least this is with the modern presidency.
It's really about providing trust and transparency, going over whatever you can disclose.
Of course, this ends up being propagandized.
You're effectively propagandizing for the administration, whether it's a Republican or Democrat administration.
But compared to Karoline Leavitt, Kayleigh McEnany was able to have a fluid back and forth, whereas Karoline Leavitt, and this is more so because of the current state of the situation that we're in, which is the Epstein files, the Iran war, it was much more difficult for Karoline Leavitt to defend the actions of the administration.
I'll give her that.
But with this new press secretary, she was decently incompetent, moderately incompetent.
It wasn't so bad that we couldn't tell what she was saying, or we couldn't tell the direction that she was trying to go in.
She would stutter.
She would have flaws.
You could poke holes in whatever she was saying.
But it was only three, four, five days, and so there was an opportunity for her to be coached, for her to be trained.
Now, how did she become press secretary in the first place? Well, she had been working for the, uh, not the Trump organization, but the Trump Media Group, and this is close in circle with Donald Trump, of course.
So Trump had already known about her.
And over the course of months, I believe this is on the, uh, campaign trail, uh, this is where you have the, the link between Zacharia and Trump getting to know each other.
And of course, with that, Trump really liked how she was on TV.
She's a lawyer, and we'll talk about in just a moment being a lawyer versus being an attorney and the different memes and, uh, holes that came out of this.
But Trump liked that she was attractive.
She's a lawyer.
She has a background.
She's decent enough in oration, where she could provide information to the public.
This is a public-facing position.
This is after weeks of Karoline Leavitt, the former press secretary, leaving the White House, and she was fairly decent at the job.
In my opinion, uh, Kayleigh McEnany was the best.
Uh, she was able to not only go back and forth with reporters, not in an annoying way, but in a way that she was able to stand her ground.
And so part of being the press secretary is to defend the administration, at least this is with the modern presidency.
It's really about providing trust and transparency, going over whatever you can disclose.
Of course, this ends up being propagandized.
You're effectively propagandizing for the administration, whether it's a Republican or Democrat administration.
But compared to Karoline Leavitt, Kayleigh McEnany was able to have a fluid back and forth, whereas Karoline Leavitt, and this is more so because of the current state of the situation that we're in, which is the Epstein files, the Iran war, it was much more difficult for Karoline Leavitt to defend the actions of the administration.
I'll give her that.
But with this new press secretary, she was decently incompetent, moderately incompetent.
It wasn't so bad that we couldn't tell what she was saying, or we couldn't tell the direction that she was trying to go in.
She would stutter.
She would have flaws.
You could poke holes in whatever she was saying.
But it was only three, four, five days, and so there was an opportunity for her to be coached, for her to be trained.
Now, how did she become press secretary in the first place? Well, she had been working for the, uh, not the Trump organization, but the Trump Media Group, and this is close in circle with Donald Trump, of course.
So Trump had already known about her.
And over the course of months, I believe this is on the, uh, campaign trail, uh, this is where you have the, the link between Zacharia and Trump getting to know each other.
And of course, with that, Trump really liked how she was on TV.
She's a lawyer, and we'll talk about in just a moment being a lawyer versus being an attorney and the different memes and, uh, holes that came out of this.
But Trump liked that she was attractive.
She's a lawyer.
She has a background.
She's decent enough in oration, where she could provide information to the public.
This is a public-facing position.
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