Poor Donald Trump. His (third) wife seemingly can’t bear to be near him and his (fifth) press secretary recently abandoned him to be with a baby she had only recently met.

“She decided she loved her children more than she loved Donald Trump,” the president lamented in August when Karoline Leavitt decided to step down a few months after giving birth. “I’m very upset about this. She has to go home and spend time with her children. That does happen on occasion with some people – when they love their children.”

Apparently, Leavitt loves her children and Fox News, because, in a highly predictable turn of events, the 29-year-old has got a gig there now. But don’t worry too much about the president: he’s found himself a new woman to attack the press and act as his mouthpiece. On Friday, Trump announced that he’d appointed Katie Zacharia, previously a communications adviser for the Trump Media and Technology Group, as the new press secretary. Unlike some of Trump’s other lackeys, Zacharia has government experience: she was once a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson. Her most important qualification, however, is her fealty to King Trump. “She has an unblemished record of support,” Trump said in his announcement.........

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