Polymarket is taking bets on when Trump’s press secretary Katie Zacharia will be out

Trump’s new press secretary got off to a rocky start Tuesday as she stumbled through prepared remarks and took just three questions before wrapping up her first briefing

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A prediction market is already taking bets on when President Donald Trump’s pick for White House press secretary, Katie Zacharia, will be out — and it’s not looking good for the conservative communications specialist.

As of Tuesday evening, the odds of her being ousted by the end of the month remain low at 8 percent. More money is being placed on her not making it into the new year. Zacharia had a 29 percent chance of leaving the White House by December 31.

Zacharia was visibly nervous behind the lectern Tuesday, compared to her predecessor, Karoline Leavitt, who often sparred with journalists. After stumbling through prepared remarks boasting about Trump’s perceived wins, Zacharia took questions from three conservative outlets and then wrapped up the quick 14-minute briefing.

“What's the over/under that she doesn't last a Scaramucci?” criminal defense lawyer Scott Greenfield wrote on X.

Scaramucci also chimed in after independent journalist George Sisca suggested that Scaramucci would be happy about Zacharia’s performance “because his record might get broken.”

One former Trump official who remains close to people serving in the administration told The Independent’s Andrew Feinberg that Zacharia’s debut was “a train wreck” after previously describing her as a “joke hire” who’d likely be “gone in six months.”

White House Communications Director Steven Cheung commended Zacharia’s job, calling the briefing a “tremendous start.”

“She commanded the room and effectively reminded the American people of all the great work President Trump and his Administration has done thus far,” he wrote on X.

Zacharia served as senior communications advisor for Trump’s Truth Social platform before joining the White House press team, according to her LinkedIn profile.

The White House went without a press secretary for more than a month after Leavitt left her post in late August to spend more time with her young family.