She is what I call Republican Hot. She has all the makings of a good conservative house wife who loves Daddy Trump and shows it by making herself look awful in the exact same way that all the other conservative wives do. It’s a weird status symbol to make yourself Trump’s ideal woman which unfortunately for them is a horrible look to anyone outside of the cult. But I suppose they don’t care too much about that.
I have a feeling some of them are going to look back at themselves in pictures and videos and feel deeply embarrassed and ashamed.
Edit: I’ve also heard it called Mar a Lago Face which is better in my opinion.
I’ve been waiting for 2 months for my credentialing to clear for a government job. Meanwhile people in the White House don’t have to go through that at all lol
I can understand the pressure and anxiety over being the press secretary and doing it for the first time. However, she spoke like three very basic introductory sentences like it was the first time she’d seen them and she had a gun to her head.
She also spent an unusual amount of time (>0) on how long she had wanted to work for Trump and how he trusted her. It was like a high school speech (and not even a good one). In any normal, functioning administration, I don't think words like that would have been said, they would have been basic table stakes and the words would have been used for saying valuable, important, meaningful things, you know, like policy and the world around us.
Trump recently read from a teleprompter that read, in part “Super Intelligence - SI”, with the dash there for a grammatical pause. He read it as “Super Intelligence dash SI”.
I don't think it's solely incompetence. IMO, incompetence is a given in this administration: dishonesty is also ubiquitous. To have both of them simultaneously, to such a high degree -and on such obvious display (almost instantly on arrival)-has simply proved too much.
Well if her only press conference was any indication her bosses knew she couldn’t sell their lies. If she held her driver’s license up and told me her name was Katie Zacaria I would question if she was who she says she was.
Asked by Hannity why her press conference went so poorly, she explained she was offered the job Wednesday last week, accepted Thursday, flew home Friday to California then back to DC on Sunday, started the job Monday (National holiday) and was asked to do the press conference Tuesday.
So basically, absolutely zero prep to be the WH Press Sec.
Turns out, the company that hired her thought she had been working as a general counsel and now China is opening an investigation into what she was doing in the country.
Ironically you don’t need to even do that in this job. The press secretary doesn’t need to be a bar certified lawyer so she gained nothing from keeping up that lie. You could be a plumber and get the Press Sec job. This was ego and vanity
Yeah, you just call it "Fake News". Melissa Howard doubled down and posed in a picture with her mother and a fake degree and called it all Fake News but then the college was like... she never graduated from here.
Nah, her main mistake was admiting she faked her credentials.
Nah bro, that's not on her at all. The White House trump administration being so incompetent to not even do a simple background check and be exposed so easily...that's not on her at all
Totally agree. She was NOT even close to a good fit, and the Orange Administration fucked up. KZ just got it because she had to get in front of cameras and people and she couldn't fake it.
She's too stupid to handle questions, lie convincingly, or think fast on her feet. Those are core competencies of a WH Press Secretary.
For example, if someone asks about your Bar Exam, you answer, "I earned my JD from Pepperdine, and have since decided not to practice as an attorney." And then go on to the next question.
If she’s willing to admit that, there’s no telling what else she might admit. That’s a dangerous person to put in front of cameras when you have a lot to hide
Not to give Trump any credit, but the difference is showmanship. His charisma for lack of a more accurate description, helps tremendously with how people perceive what he says and allows them to interject what they think he said. If you can stomach it, listen to any other Republican. When they hit the talking points with any sort of enthusiasm, the crowds react. The moment they stumble or actually take their time saying something, the dopamine addicts tune them out
Her law degree wasn't from China, it is from Pepperdine. The issue isn't whether she has a law degree, she does, it's whether she passed the bar exam, which she hasn't. She definitely didn't do that in China because you can only take the Chinese equivalent of the bar if you're a Chinese national.
Pepperdine is a legit law school for people that take it seriously but there's a running joke about law schools and once you're accepted, the school has every incentive to make sure you graduate and it's incredibly hard to fail as long as you show up. But getting pushed through to keep graduation stats up doesn't mean you'll be prepared or able to pass the bar if you didn't actually take the program seriously.
I love that Trump has a degree from there though. Because it also gave us the best quote ever - He is the dumbest student I have ever had - by his professor. hahaha it's too good. When you think of how many 10s of thousands that professor have seen. To be the absolute rock bottom? hahaha
One of the dumbest kids I knew. Her dad is a famous lawyer in the city. He somehow managed to make her a lawyer eventually. I don’t know how they did it, but she was failing most of her classes in college.
I don't know if she is lying that she passed the bar or not like this person. But money can get you through a lot of school.
She also blew an interview with Sean Hannity. That was probably her nail in the coffin. If she couldn’t handle softball questions, she couldn’t handle press secretary.
I know seriously, when you look at some of the morons that are still working it seems a little quick. I’m thinking they’re getting the midterm panic. It’s kind of like when your house is a total disaster and you find out you’ve got guests coming over in an hour and you just throw everything in a closet.
Its because her incompetence caused people to look into her qualifications, which resulted in people finding out that she's been lying about being a lawyer. She hasn't passed the bar in the states, but is still saying she's a lawyer publicly since she "practiced Chinese trade law".
i wanted to see more. watching her struggle reading pre-written statements was entertaining tbh, makes for some fine hatewatching. if she could barely read, imagine her answering a remotely difficult question or defend or spin any of the crazy shit 47 does. so much comedy we were robbed of.
I don’t think she has enough brainpower to lie. It takes a lot to coordinate things like walking down ramps, drinking water, and reading at a 4th grade level.
She was another distraction. For five days we’ve been talking about her instead of the Epstein files, his corruption, his election interference, etc., etc., etc.
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u/aberfoyle496 1d ago
To be too incompetent for this administration is a hell of a feat.