Megyn Kelly Gives Her Take on Trump's New Press Secretary Katie Zacharia After Her First Briefing

[0:00] The new press secretary is named Katie Zakaria, and she had her first outing today. [0:07] It didn't go particularly well. [0:09] I'll tell you who she is. [0:10] It wasn't a disaster, but it wasn't, like, impressive. [0:14] She is a communications advisor, was, to the Trump Media and Technology Group, which runs [0:23] his social network, Truth Social. [0:25] She worked briefly at Department of Homeland Security as a spokeswoman for then-Secretary [0:30] Kristi Noem. [0:31] She is the sixth press secretary under President Trump, if you count term one and term two. [0:37] She's the fifth woman to hold the position. [0:39] Our pal Sean Spicer was the only guy to hold it under Trump. [0:43] Scaramucci was comms director, not press secretary. [0:47] And I'll give you a little flavor for how this went. [0:51] This is, this is, what's, can we play the first comments she said when she got up there, Deb? [0:59] Good morning. [1:02] Good morning. [1:03] I am so honored to work for President Trump and the American people as the new White House [1:13] press secretary. [1:14] I want to thank President Trump for his trust that he has placed in me. [1:22] I have wanted to work for him for a very long time. [1:27] I'm looking forward to working with each of you as well, especially as we are in the middle [1:34] of the midterm blitz with energy and excitement never seen before in the history of midterms, [1:41] thanks to President Trump. [1:43] I mean, it was fine. [1:49] Part of it is the look. [1:51] You know, she's got very heavy makeup on. [1:53] She's got the long curls. [1:55] She's got some chest showing with the tight. [1:58] Like, I think she needs to dial it back. [2:00] I'm just going to say, like, I know she's auditioning for a job on Fox News. [2:04] They all are. [2:06] Look at Dana Perino. [2:07] No, she was, too. [2:08] Like, it's been a long line of Republican press secretaries whose real goal is to wind [2:12] up on Fox News. [2:13] I get it. [2:14] But Roger Ailes would be the first to tell you when you are in a job in which you need [2:20] to be taken seriously, you need to present as a serious person. [2:24] And then I would say once she's earned the respect of the public and the press corps, she [2:31] can sauce it up if she wants. [2:33] She'll have a greater ability to do that and to be taken seriously. [2:36] But right now, we don't know you. [2:38] And your first impressions are important. [2:41] And you should be the consummate professional in your presentation, which means dialing back [2:46] the makeup, dialing back the over-the-top curls and the hair, and maybe covering up, covering [2:52] up a little bit more underneath that suit jacket. [2:55] You're not there to turn anybody on. [2:58] You're there to look like a professional. [3:00] And by the way, it's advice I've given to other officials, cabinet officials and others [3:07] in the Trump administration. [3:08] And I think some of them took me advice and were very well served by it. [3:12] Obviously, I have no problem with glam makeup or hair. [3:15] Not today. [3:16] I don't really have any. [3:16] But in general, I have no problem with it. [3:19] But I do think you have to earn it. [3:21] And she hasn't yet. [3:22] So dial it back, 20% less makeup, the sparkly eyeshadow. [3:28] Like, just dial it back. [3:29] And you'll get there with the American people if you are smart and credible. [3:34] OK, so a little stumbly because she was nervous, which you could hear and sought, too. [3:39] Second question for you, if I may, a personal question. [3:44] Your family is in California. [3:46] Your husband, you have four children. [3:48] I'm wondering how you manage, how are you going to manage that? [3:52] Caroline Levitt left because she wanted to spend more time with her family. [3:55] And also, did she give you any advice on how to handle this job and the people in this room? [4:01] Well, first of all, I want to give my husband an amazing shout-out. [4:05] We have four kids ranging from 12, 10, 8, and 6. [4:08] Three of them are boys, so we have a handful. [4:11] And I adore my family. [4:13] I love them. [4:14] They are my priority. [4:16] I love being with my kids. [4:18] The idea of not spending evenings with my kids is completely unacceptable. [4:24] So my president, excuse me, my husband, that's a good one. [4:29] All right, so she's getting creamed for that stumbling mess of an answer, but she's nervous. [4:38] She's not, like, I know you can make the case that she shouldn't be the press secretary then [4:42] if she gets nervous in front of the cameras, but she'll get there. [4:44] Trust me. [4:45] Like, talking live on camera is not as easy as it looks for most people, and she doesn't [4:53] seem to have a ton of experience doing it. [4:56] I think she was probably hired because she's attractive and she must have done a decent [5:00] job behind the scenes at Truth Social, and Trump was favorably impressed by her and believed [5:08] that with time she could get there, but she's clearly not there yet. [5:12] Give her some time. [5:13] You know, the thing that's really galling me is the people who are most brutal toward [5:20] her today are the very same people who truly wanted us to believe that Karine Jean-Pierre [5:26] was one of the great orators of our time. [5:29] Um, no, not true. [5:33] And by the way, she never grew into the job. [5:36] Karine Jean-Pierre read from that stupid notebook every time she got up there and could not speak [5:43] extemporaneously. [5:45] And let me tell you what this gal was doing today, uh, Katie. [5:51] She was trying to develop that skill. [5:55] She did look down at her notes a fair amount. [5:57] That's fine. [5:58] But she was trying to speak off the cuff and she wasn't very good at it, but she's going [6:03] to get better. [6:04] And the only way to get better at speaking off the cuff is to do it and stumble and maybe [6:10] sound a little silly the first few times you've tried it. [6:12] But if she is still at this job a year from now, she's going to be way better at it. [6:17] And there's really no short, you know, short cutting that journey from A to Z. [6:23] So I wish her well. [6:25] And I actually am very open-minded to her improving. [6:28] And I think the mainstream media should STF you. [6:32] I mean, we literally have Brian Stelter out there ripping this girl. [6:35] Would you please stop? [6:37] It's a miracle anybody ever let you on TV at all. [6:40] You know that. [6:41] You only got put on TV because you wrote that stupid news letter that, like, wrote up people's [6:46] ratings and therefore you got some notice. [6:48] But you know nothing. [6:49] You were never a doer. [6:50] You were always a watcher. [6:52] You were always a sideline man. [6:54] That's what's so sad about these media critics. [6:56] You've never done. [6:57] You've only watched. [6:59] You've got lots of criticism from the cheap seats. [7:01] And now he wants to weigh in on the job she's doing as White House press secretary. [7:06] Please be quiet. [7:07] Please be quiet. [7:08] We'll let you know when we want to hear from you and it will probably have to do with something [7:12] completely other than a Trump press secretary. [7:16] No one wants to hear your opinions on her. [7:38] We may not always agree, but we are always going to talk about it and respect. [7:44] No BS, no agenda, no fear. 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