About this transcript: This is a full AI-generated transcript of TRUMP’S White House NIGHTMARE: The INSANE Press Conference That ENDED Katie Zacharia’s Career from Diario AS, published October 20, 2026. The transcript contains 1,993 words with timestamps and was generated using Whisper AI.
"good morning i am so honored to work for president trump and the american people as the new white house press secretary i want to thank president trump for his trust that he has placed in me i have wanted to work for him for a very long time i'm looking forward to working with each of you as well..."
[0:06] good morning i am so honored to work for president trump and the american people
[0:16] as the new white house press secretary i want to thank president trump for his trust that he
[0:25] has placed in me i have wanted to work for him for a very long time i'm looking forward to working
[0:35] with each of you as well especially as we are in the middle of the midterm blitz with energy and
[0:42] excitement never seen before in the history of midterms thanks to president trump just look no
[0:51] further than last night in youngstown ohio where president trump delivered another blockbuster
[0:58] rally out on the trail the arena was overflowing with enthusiasm as thousands came out to support
[1:06] president trump as well as special guest jake paul and football legend john gruden the president also
[1:14] announced the department of war has officially selected cleveland ohio as the new home for the
[1:21] u.s navy's submarine component repair center this massive 46 000 square foot facility will manufacture
[1:32] repair and maintain key parts for virtually all new and existing submarines this is historic
[1:41] everyday americans are showing up in droves to attend these rallies because of president trump's america
[1:49] first agenda of lower taxes higher wages and one of my favorites secure borders but it doesn't stop
[2:00] there president trump is planning to hold rallies in alaska arizona montana where i will be with him
[2:10] and georgia building off of the incredible momentum generated over the last several days from his stops
[2:19] in tennessee new york texas and nebraska he is an energetic president attendance is at record highs as
[2:29] enthusiastic hard-working americans are lining up and packing arenas to support president trump and republicans
[2:38] it's not hard to see why president trump is fighting and delivering for american workers every minute of
[2:50] every day real wages are up 1.2 percent since president trump took office with average annual earnings
[2:59] outpacing inflation by eight hundred dollars under biden real wages fell nearly four percent with the
[3:08] average private sector workers annual purchasing power declining by nearly three thousand dollars
[3:14] annually president trump is the first president in modern history to actually lower prescription drug
[3:23] prices delivering the biggest drop in 63 years president trump has created more than one million private
[3:32] sector jobs in his second term including nearly 112 000 factory construction jobs and 72 000 manufacturing jobs
[3:42] this year alone and thanks to president trump we are once again bringing back american energy dominance
[3:51] because energy security is national security president trump secured the biggest oil deal in world history
[4:02] delivering the u.s majority control of more than 65 billion barrels of proven oil reserves
[4:10] in venezuela he had a historic one-day war and now we are have a booming economy and a great relationship
[4:18] with venezuela the u.s achieved record domestic oil and gas production in 2025 and record crude and petroleum
[4:28] product exports in 2026 building off of his historic boom in energy production in the first 15 months of
[4:36] this administration we have secured trillions of dollars and new investments trillions of dollars
[4:43] including 1.4 trillion dollars from the united arab emirates 600 billion dollars from apple and 340
[4:51] billion dollars from amazon no other president could have gotten these deals done just weeks ago president
[4:59] trump announced that masabe metallics will build a massive 15 billion dollar steel complex in iowa the
[5:08] largest steel plant ever built in the united states this facility a historic facility will create 1750 new
[5:21] permanent jobs and support up to 6 000 construction jobs and generate an estimated 95 billion dollars in
[5:30] economic output in addition president trump and enduro announced arsenal 2 the biggest american shipyard
[5:40] push since world war ii in maryland this new facility will create about 3 100 direct jobs and support more
[5:49] than 11 000 indirect jobs president trump also unveiled a south korea energy investment package of up to 200
[5:58] 100 billion dollars in the united states this is an amazing deal this includes as much as 120 billion
[6:07] to build a to build eight large scale nuclear power plants something we've needed as the united states and
[6:13] something president trump promised on the campaign trail and something president trump is delivering on
[6:19] just like he delivers on every promise in addition to that we will be we will be do he has there is 54
[6:29] billion dollars tied to the alaska lng pipeline and terminal to service the pacific rim and sell fuel to
[6:38] our allies as well as 22.3 billion dollars for a six gigawatt natural gas power facility in texas not only is
[6:48] the trump administration bringing in trillions of dollars to invest throughout the country but we
[6:54] are also protecting your tax dollars by addressing fraud head on since taking office the trump administration
[7:02] has uncovered over 260 billion dollars of fraud stopped 72 billion dollars of fraud annually through
[7:11] administrative actions and recovered 58.9 billion dollars through indictments settlements and civil monetary
[7:21] penalties above all president trump is working to secure the western hemisphere for centuries to come
[7:31] president trump signed an unprecedented agreement giving the united states lasting control over security
[7:39] interests in greenland president trump has used the power of tariffs to stop china from producing fentanyl
[7:48] precursor chemicals those the fentanyl killed many of our citizens and he is hard at work and ensuring
[7:55] that that that won't happen and here at home fentanyl trafficking across the southern border is down 56
[8:03] 26 and fentanyl linked deaths plunged 22 in a single year because of president trump this is a president and
[8:13] administration that is looking out for you the american people and i'm thrilled to officially be part of
[8:22] this incredible journey together and with that i will take your questions here in our new media seat we have
[8:32] nick gelbertson from breitbart hi katie uh welcome to the briefing room and congrats on the new position
[8:38] one of the things that your predecessor caroline levitt did is open this room up to more voices not less
[8:44] at breitbart that's something our founder Andrew breitbart certainly believed in um and whether that's
[8:49] adding this new media seat adding new media voices to the pool can you tell us what you plan to do to
[8:55] continue to ensure that new media voices continue to be heard here at the white house yeah well firstly my
[9:01] predecessor caroline levitt did an incredible job and i completely agree with the choice of new
[9:07] media seat we are absolutely going to keep it and we're going to expand on it to the extent possible
[9:12] we love new media and we want to be able to embrace it absolutely and then just to follow up too you did
[9:18] touch on presidential travel um the president's been all over the place and you kind of laid out his
[9:23] schedule over the next couple days but is it only going to intensify here in the next couple of weeks
[9:28] subsequent terms absolutely you can expect more of the midterm blitz uh just now we've added kentucky
[9:36] and we have a few other stops as he goes down to florida so it'll be georgia kentucky and florida
[9:45] hello we will take peter ducey thanks katie nice to meet you um you're starting as white house press
[9:53] secretary three weeks before a midterm cycle that president trump himself says will be very tough
[9:59] for republicans is your job just to speak about white house matters or is it to make things less
[10:06] tough for republicans in the midterms well but peter i get to do what i was doing on the outside already
[10:14] which was hoping to amplify multiply and expand upon president trump's incredible agenda for the
[10:20] american people and what i hope to do in this position is to take that into an official capacity
[10:26] and only build on only amplify and only multiply to the extent possible all of the wins he's making for
[10:33] americans for for americans to understand how much has changed in this brief period of time what he's
[10:40] been able to accomplish my goal is to be able to communicate that in complete tandem with the
[10:46] president as he is his own best spokesperson and will absolutely be leading the way as with that
[10:52] and i want to ask you a policy question has the u.s stopped sharing intel with ukraine i'll have to get
[11:00] back to you on that alina shirazi yes alina shirazi hi congrats on the job
[11:10] thank you first of all and i have two questions for you if i can uh first of all on kimberly guilfoyle
[11:17] the daily mail has been reporting on her since last year the president said yesterday to reporters
[11:22] that he is considering firing her do you know a timeline for that and also potentially who could
[11:27] be on the short list to replace her if he does uh we have asked ambassador guilfoyle to resign she has
[11:35] been a wonderful asset to the team and we wish her well okay second question for you if
[11:42] i may a personal question your family is in california your husband you have four children
[11:49] i'm wondering how you manage how are you going to manage that caroline levitt left because she
[11:53] wanted to spend more time with her family and also did she give you any advice on how to handle this job
[11:59] and the people in this room well first of all i want to give my husband an amazing shout out we have four
[12:05] kids ranging from 12 10 8 and six three of them are boys so we have a handful and i adore my family i
[12:13] love them they are my priority they i i love being with my kids the idea of not spending evenings with my
[12:20] kid kids are is completely uh unacceptable so my president excuse me my husband that's a that's a good
[12:28] one my husband is out here is out here for the week because we have two birthdays in our family and we
[12:35] are very very protective of celebrating birthdays as a family so he brought the entire crew out here
[12:41] blessed him it's a lot and we will be moving out here and as far as your second question is yes
[12:48] caroline has been an incredible support she gave me great and wonderful feedback on how to balance i think
[12:55] this job is not one you necessarily balance and i would love to share that in my career i stayed home
[13:02] with my kids from 2014 to 2020 in in the process of having them and then when i started working again
[13:08] i was able to integrate them into my life there are many photos of which are not public of the kids and
[13:14] i at fox bureau where they are sitting with me in the pod before a hit so i intend to to the extent
[13:20] possible include my family include my kids in my work though my work will be demanding they will
[13:26] always be a priority and i i president trump is the most family friendly president we've ever had
[13:32] he has hired more women with families and the fact that he knew i had four kids and he knew that
[13:38] this job would be demanding and still placed his trust in me shows that i know i'm capable of being
[13:43] able to step up to that so thank you for that question in fact i am going to end it because
[13:48] president trump is heading out to marine one for our historic trip to alaska and we can ask him
[13:54] all of the questions uh out there so thank you so much
[14:03] to the question on the president will be back on thursday and that's what i will answer i'll leave it
[14:09] it there he will he will answer those questions out and marine money