{"id":1393,"date":"2026-10-16T19:16:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T19:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/?p=1393"},"modified":"2026-10-16T19:16:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T19:16:20","slug":"katie-zacharia-transitioning-out-of-press-secretary-role-sources-tell-abc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/?p=1393","title":{"rendered":"Katie Zacharia &#8216;transitioning out&#8217; of press secretary role, sources tell ABC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2026-10-16\/donald-trump-8-gty-gmh-261013_1791906045873_hpMain_16x9.jpg\" alt><figcaption>White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia joins U.S. President Donald Trump as he departs on the South Lawn of the White House, October 13, 2026 in Washington. (Win McNamee\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>White House press secretary Katie Zacharia is \u201ctransitioning out\u201d of her role, multiple sources and a senior White House official told ABC News on Friday. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Zacharia started as press secretary on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump earlier Friday told reporters he asked Zacharia to reconsider whether she wants to stay in the position.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I said to her, &#8216;Honestly, if I were you, I&#8217;d reconsider. You think about it, but I would reconsider,'&#8221; Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I said, &#8216;Katie, you know, you don&#8217;t have to do this if you don&#8217;t want,'&#8221; the president said. &#8220;She said, &#8216;This is a lot tougher.&#8217; I said, &#8216;Welcome to the world of Trump.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia joins U.S. President Donald Trump as he departs on the South Lawn of the White House, October 13, 2026 in Washington. (Win McNamee\/Getty Images) White House press secretary Katie Zacharia is \u201ctransitioning out\u201d of her role, multiple sources and a senior White House official told ABC News on Friday. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}