Katie Zacharia’s run as White Home press secretary lasted 5 days, and memes about her exit are rolling in.
There’s somebody who can relate: Anthony Scaramucci, whose transient stint as Trump’s White Home communications director in July 2017 grew to become a pop-culture unit of time — a “Scaramucci,” or “Mooch” — for measuring short-lived political appointments.
Scaramucci held the position for roughly 10 days — six if not together with the time lapsed between Trump’s announcement and his first day — earlier than Trump fired him.
Scaramucci has been following Zacharia’s journey carefully and, in a sequence of tweets, has gone from wishing her nicely to providing recommendation.
It began on Thursday, when Scaramucci positioned his wager that Zacharia would “make it.”
The wager on Zacharia was short-lived. By mid-Friday, Scaramucci was addressing her departure.
Scaramucci additionally supplied Zacharia direct recommendation.
Pricey @katiezacharia — talking because the world’s main knowledgeable on brief White Home tenures: flip off the information and go get pleasure from your loved ones. In time you’ll understand that the Universe did you a significant favor.
— Anthony Scaramucci (@Scaramucci) October 16, 2026
In the meantime, the web has been creating math equations over what number of “Scaramuccis” Zacharia had lasted, suggesting she turn out to be the brand new benchmark.
Half of a Scaramucci is named a Zacharia.
— Covie (@covie_93) October 16, 2026
Employees have lengthy been instructed to stay in a job for a minimum of a 12 months to keep away from wanting uncommitted to future employers. A string of brief stints can nonetheless increase eyebrows, however the dates on a résumé don’t at all times inform the entire story.
Management consultants have beforehand instructed Enterprise Insider that fast strikes that include extra duty and alternatives to construct abilities can strengthen a résumé, by which fast modifications in roles could possibly be seen as an indication of ambition and flexibility reasonably than instability.
Zacharia succeeded Karoline Leavitt, who left in August to spend extra time along with her younger kids. She grew to become Trump’s sixth press secretary throughout his two phrases, and the fourth to final lower than a 12 months.
Whereas there may be useful profession recommendation on the market for Zacharia, a LinkedIn profile image of Zacharia with the notorious “#Opentowork” tag has additionally taken off on X. The tweet was initially posted by the Democrats’ official account.
The inexperienced tag itself has been a much-debated subject on the skilled networking platform.
Some recruiters have beforehand instructed Enterprise Insider that the label is the “biggest red flag” to hiring managers as a result of it suggests “desperation.” Information from 2024, nonetheless, present that employees with the general public inexperienced tag obtain 40% extra messages from LinkedIn Recruiter than those that use solely the personal sign.