Devoted ‘Member of MAGA’: Meet the New White House Press Secretary

The woman chosen to be the next White House press secretary is a 42-year-old mother of four, Fox News commentator, and lawyer from “blue California” who says she is eager to mix it up with self-righteous liberals and who proudly wears her MAGA colors at all times — even in the gym.Katie Zacharia is expected to step into the crucible of the White House briefing room as one of the most visible people in the American government, speaking on behalf of the man she calls “the greatest president in U.S. history, Donald J. Trump.”And don’t expect her to back down in the face of “anti-MAGA bullies.” In February, Ms. Zacharia wrote in a New York Post op-ed about how wearing her “Team Trump 2024” hat to a kickboxing class at her gym had sent a liberal gym-goer into a frenzy.“These are the same radicals who enforced COVID mask tyranny, shunned the unvaccinated, and demanded blind compliance,” Ms. Zacharia wrote. “Now they hide behind screens, scream at instructors, or tattle anonymously to enforce their will. It’s pure cowardice masquerading as virtue.”Ms. Zacharia said the petulant liberal had demanded the class instructor force her to remove her Trump hat or face the wall for the entirety of the class. When that didn’t work, she said members of the gym collaborated on “online smear campaigns” until the owner of the gym asked Ms. Zacharia to stop wearing her Trump hat to workout. Ms. Zacharia refused.“Their extreme ideology — weaponized by outrage and entitlement — threatens America itself,” Ms. Zacharia wrote. “From obstructing ICE agents to radicalizing everyday spaces like gyms, they transform neutral environments into hostile echo chambers where dissent equals ‘threat.’ Opinions aren’t violence, but their manufactured outrage is.”Ms. Zacharia is a senior communications adviser to Trump Media who spent about six weeks as a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security earlier this year. She left at the same time the president replaced Kristi Noem with Markwayne Mullin but said in an interview her departure had to do with the strain of traveling to and from California to see her family. She has four children.Ms. Zacharia “has an unblemished record of support, and has been a loyal and brilliant supporter, right from the beginning,” the president said on social media Friday afternoon, announcing Ms. Zacharia’s hiring. “She is, likewise, a devoted fan and member of MAGA!”A frequent guest on Fox News and the Fox Business Network over the last two years, on social media in the last month alone Ms. Zacharia advocated for more domestic oil drilling, praised the president’s diplomacy with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, and delivered criticism of Chief Justice John Roberts.“He’s not even that conservative,” Ms. Zacharia wrote last week of the chief justice. “His position on birthright citizenship should have gotten him a seat back at those lib-tables.”In August, she was on Fox News defending the president’s prized White House ballroom against an injunction from a federal judge.“This is a national security facility,” Ms. Zacharia said. “Justice Roberts should grant the stay. The full Court will get it right if they grant certiorari. Anything less is pure insanity.”While attending Pepperdine University, Ms. Zacharia worked as an intern for the Republican National Committee and White House Office of Political Affairs during the George W. Bush administration. She graduated from Pepperdine in 2007 with a bachelor’s degree in political science and government, then went on to graduate from Pepperdine Caruso Law in 2011.She spent two years in Communist China working for the Zhong Lun law firm, where she was outside counsel for the World Bank and International Finance Corporation. She has an “elementary proficiency” in Chinese, she says on her LinkedIn profile.“I don’t support Beijing policies, and am ardent spokesperson against China’s incursion on the USA — Belt and Road and otherwise,” she wrote on July 2. “This is evidenced in the thousands of media hits or written articles that I have done.”During her time living in Beijing, Ms. Zacharia also did fundraising and communications work for the group Compassion for Migrant Children — a non-governmental organization that helps China’s migrant child population, mostly through education and social programs.Back in America, she worked as general counsel for the organization Fix California, headed by the acting director of national intelligence and ambassador to Germany, Richard Grenell, which advocated for election integrity and conservative causes in the Golden State. Earlier this year, she became a senior communications advisor for Trump Media & Technology Group and Truth Social. She said her job was to support communications strategy, media relations and external engagement.“I am confident that Katie will deliver strong results for our country as the next White House Press Secretary, as she has the respect of, and will work fantastically with, the media, the American people, and my administration,” Mr. Trump said in a social media post.

Devoted ‘Member of MAGA’: Meet the New White House Press Secretary

Devoted ‘Member of MAGA’: Meet the New White House Press Secretary

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