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Press secretary fired after five days
Trump announced her appointment in a post calling her a devoted fan and member of MAGA. She had worked at his social media company, spent two months at the Department of Homeland Security, and appeared as a commentator on conservative shows. When she gave her first press briefing on Tuesday, reporters had questions ready on the midterm elections, Ukraine, and the resignation of the US ambassador to Greece amid corruption allegations.
She read from a script for eight minutes about the president's accomplishments, stumbled a few times, and took only three questions. She then said Trump would take more questions later in the day.
Attention soon moved to her qualifications. Trump had introduced her as an attorney, and she had called herself a lawyer on conservative shows, but it was revealed that she never passed the bar exam. Sean Hannity, a close ally of Trump, pressed her hard on Fox News.
Speaking to journalists next to the Marine One helicopter, Trump called her a great person who has been treated roughly. He said he had asked her whether she wanted to live like this and had told her he would reconsider if he were her. Anthony Scaramucci, his former communications director, left that role after just 10 days.
Why is the briefing room built over a pool?
Franklin Roosevelt had an indoor swimming pool built in the West Wing in 1933, paid for by donations, to give him exercise for his polio. In 1970, the Nixon administration floored over the pool to create a dedicated press space. Reporters had previously worked out of a lobby area near the president's offices. Since 2000, the room has carried the name of James Brady, the press secretary wounded in the 1981 assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan.
How did the press secretary job begin?
For most of the 19th century, presidents dealt with newspapers themselves or through personal secretaries. George Akerman became the first official press secretary under Herbert Hoover in 1929. Franklin Roosevelt's press secretary, Stephen Early, held the post for the whole of Roosevelt's presidency, from 1933 until 1945.
Why do states have their own bar exams?
In the United States, each state's highest court decides who may practice law there, and most states require applicants to pass an exam. A few paths exist around it, such as Wisconsin's diploma privilege for graduates of its in-state law schools. Many states now share the Uniform Bar Exam, so a score can transfer from one state to another. The first bar examinations in the American colonies were oral and given by individual judges.
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