Oct 19, 2026 · 26 min · 16 segments
On the DSR Daily for Monday, we break down the firing of Katie Zacharia, Elon’s pledge to hand out SpaceX shares to kids, the US annual budget gap hitting a five-year high, and more. Learn more…
David RothkopfHost
Minnah SteinHost
Riley FesslerHost
Well, play the Hunger Games, another has fallen music, because White House Press Secretary, Katie Zacharia, was ousted after just five days on the job.
Following a disastrous primetime interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity, in which she struggled to c- defend her legal credentials and admitted to failing the bar exam.
Multiple sources describe the interview as a sanctioned hit orchestrated by White House Chief of Staff, Susie Wiles, though Fox News and senior officials denied Wiles' involvement and attributed the dismissal to Zacharia's own poor media performances.
Guess what? There are a lot of stories this morning about how Susie Wiles set it up, so...
[laughs] Um, now Susie Wiles may have set it up, 'cause there were a bunch of stories last week on how Trump was gonna fire Susie Wiles, and she wanted to distract from it.
We also have the story, of course, of Kimberly Guilfoyle getting fired, uh, as ambassador to Greece, and then a whole bunch of stories about how just wait for the other shoe to drop.
She's got, she's gonna spill the tea, or some other person is gonna spill the tea.
And you know something? I don't think it's gonna settle down until after the election, Susie Wiles is gone, uh, Katie Za- Zacharia is gone, Kimberly Guilfoyle's gone, couple other people will quit, and Trump makes Stephen Miller chief of staff and prime minister, makes his wife press secretary, and we enter two years of the Stephen Miller quasi-presidency.
Imagine a White House where Stephen Miller has more power 'cause everybody else has quit 'cause they can't stand it.
I know he's been imagining it at, late at night, candle flickering on his desk as he pulls the wings off of small insects, um, and then eats them.
Well, play the Hunger Games, another has fallen music, because White House Press Secretary, Katie Zacharia, was ousted after just five days on the job.
Following a disastrous primetime interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity, in which she struggled to c- defend her legal credentials and admitted to failing the bar exam.
Multiple sources describe the interview as a sanctioned hit orchestrated by White House Chief of Staff, Susie Wiles, though Fox News and senior officials denied Wiles' involvement and attributed the dismissal to Zacharia's own poor media performances.
Guess what? There are a lot of stories this morning about how Susie Wiles set it up, so...
[laughs] Um, now Susie Wiles may have set it up, 'cause there were a bunch of stories last week on how Trump was gonna fire Susie Wiles, and she wanted to distract from it.
We also have the story, of course, of Kimberly Guilfoyle getting fired, uh, as ambassador to Greece, and then a whole bunch of stories about how just wait for the other shoe to drop.
She's got, she's gonna spill the tea, or some other person is gonna spill the tea.
And you know something? I don't think it's gonna settle down until after the election, Susie Wiles is gone, uh, Katie Za- Zacharia is gone, Kimberly Guilfoyle's gone, couple other people will quit, and Trump makes Stephen Miller chief of staff and prime minister, makes his wife press secretary, and we enter two years of the Stephen Miller quasi-presidency.
Imagine a White House where Stephen Miller has more power 'cause everybody else has quit 'cause they can't stand it.
I know he's been imagining it at, late at night, candle flickering on his desk as he pulls the wings off of small insects, um, and then eats them.
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