Up is down, and down is up ... and the White House Press Secretary is refusing to take questions from the media.
Katie Zachariais under fire for claiming she was a "lawyer" when she never passed the bar exam ... but when the White House press corps dared to ask her about it Friday, she stunningly shut them all down.
Ya gotta see the video ... President Trump's new White House Press Secretary walks up to a throng of reporters on the North Lawn, and the first words out of her mouth are, "I'm not taking any questions."
Fox News contributor Kennedy is dishing on her experiences with Kimberly Guilfoyle while the two worked together at the network, painting Guilfoyle as a status-hungry social climber with a spicy sexual appetite.
In fact, Kennedy wrote a column for the Daily Mail on Thursday, pointing out one incident in particular that showed just how spicy Guilfoyle could get.
Kennedy wrote that she was invited to Guilfoyle's home one night and, when she got there, Guilfoyle opened the door wearing a "black, push-up corset and thigh-high stockings, and purred: 'You like what you see?'"
Sean Hannity grilled Katie Zacharia over her bar exam controversy on his show Thursday night ... and the experience didn't go so well for the newly minted White House press secretary.
The longtime Fox News host interviewed Zacharia on "Hannity" about her first week as President Trump's press secretary and, at one point, Hannity brought up that Zacharia called it a "conspiracy theory as it relates to the issue of being a lawyer."
Zacharia flashed an uncomfortable smile as Hannity pointed out that she attended Pepperdine University and failed her first attempt at passing the bar exam to become an attorney.
Mike Rogers -- a former congressman who is running for Senate -- says he trusts that feds had enough evidence to raid Congresswoman Ilhan Omar's residence ... and he rejects the notion President Donald Trump is trying to persecute political enemies.
Charlie and Jacob -- our TMZDC crew -- caught up with Rogers Thursday in Michigan, and given Mike's experience as a former FBI agent, they asked him about the raid conducted at Rep. Omar's home this week.
Mike told us he's confident the FBI must've had good reason to bust down Ilhan's door. A little housekeeping on that remark -- it appears the FBI didn't conduct the raid, and it was instead done by Homeland Security Investigations ... but, it's still the feds.
Katie Zachariasays her mind was elsewhere when she took the bar exam in California ... and she failed because she was too distracted by planning her wedding.
Kate Zacharia tells Jack Posobiec that she was distracted when she took the bar exam because she had just gotten engaged, but it didn't matter anyway because passing it was "inconsequential" since she "knew I wouldn’t need the bar in China."
When asked why she never took the bar again, she says it was because she started having kids, and it was "okay and acceptable" to label herself a "lawyer" for the work she was doing.
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The new White House Press Secretary admitted Thursday that she never passed the bar despite presenting herself as a "lawyer" ... and she went with the wedding-planning excuse in an interview with Jack Posobiec on "Real America's Voice."
Katie says she failed the bar in 2011 after graduating from Pepperdine University's law school ... claiming she was not only distracted by planning her wedding to Tyler Zacharia, but also by her plans to move to China to be with Tyler.
Abdul El-Sayed took a break from pitching voters on equality and human rights ... and got to work pitching TMZ DC on Gatorade Zero.
Jacoband Charliehave boots on the ground in Michigan, and they caught up with the Michigan senatorial candidate at a Detroit gas station as he stopped to refuel. El-Sayed beelined straight for the fridge, where he showed us what's powering his campaign.
El-Sayed pulled out an ice-cold bottle of Gatorade Zero, then stumped for the drink ... schooling our guys on electrolytes and hydration ... and explaining why Glacier Cherry is his flavor of choice.
White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia may not have passed the bar ... but she did work for a multilevel marketing company.
According to WIRED, Zacharia worked as an affiliate of the fitness company Beachbody, and she told the outlet the company ran a multilevel marketing structure that she says was "sort of a pyramid scheme."
The outlet used a database of leaked online material from District 4 Labs, which included Zacharia's since-deleted LinkedIn profile that displayed Beachbody email addresses as her points of contact.
Abdul El-Sayed says Donald Trump doesn't realize it, but he's actually praising the Michigan senatorial candidate by mocking his name, but the first order of business Tuesday night was chowin' down on some Red Hot Cheese Flavored popcorn!!!
Our TMZ DC guys, Jacob and Charlie, are now in Michigan and caught up with El-Sayed at a Detroit gas station. El-Sayed cracked open a bag of the Red Hots, which Jacob clearly couldn't handle, so the 3 then shared a bottle of Gatorade to bring down the heat.
Then they got serious. Jacob mentioned he spoke to a guy in Kalamazoo who felt if El-Sayed got elected, he wouldn't be as progressive as he sounds now because of his religion. El-Sayed explains why he's progressive BECAUSE of his religion.
11:30 AM PT -- Chief White House Spokesperson Katie Zachariatells TMZ ... “I practiced international transaction law, with all the appropriate credentials.”
A White House officialalso says ... Katie has her JD from Pepperdine. Katie moved to China with her husband after graduating because of his job at an American private equity firm while she worked on international transaction law.
Katie Zacharia -- the new White House Press Secretary -- never passed the bar exam ... even though President Donald Trump insists she's a lawyer.
The Wall Street Journal published an article Thursday that cites an anonymous source with direct knowledge of the matter who claims Katie took the bar exam shortly after graduating from Pepperdine University's Caruso School of Law and didn't pass.
Katie then went to China with her future husband ... where she worked as an associate on the international-practice team at a law firm in Beijing. The source told the WSJ that Katie was told by real lawyers that she could provide legal analysis based on her law degree and international transaction experience.
President Trump is reversing Pete Hegseth's plan to livestream Nidal Malik Hasan's execution by firing squad ... saying the execution may be viewed in person "by the immediate families of the victims, if they so choose."
The president took to Truth Social to address the Secretary of War's push to make the viewing public for all ... saying the idea may have been a "strong deterrent ... but, many very good and well meaning people would rather not watch him die, through streaming, or through any other visual device."
Trump says the convicted Fort Hood shooter will still be executed by firing squad, it just won't be streamed live.
Donald Trump Jr. and Kimberly Guilfoyle haven't spoken in nearly two years ... TMZ has learned the former couple has had no contact since calling off their engagement in 2024.
A person familiar with the situation tells TMZ ... Don Jr. and Kimberly haven't had any communication since their split, despite her continued ties to the Trump administration until just days ago.
Donald Trump can't seem to keep his eyes off Jon Husted's booty ... and Pete Buttigieg thinks the president's fascination with the Ohio senator is truly bizarre.
Charlie and Jacob caught up with the former Transportation Secretary Wednesday in Kalamazoo, Michigan, where he was hosting a get-out-the-vote rally ... and they asked him about Trump's recent praise of Husted's backside, hands, and muscular build.
Buttigieg admits it's a strange thing to notice ... but says Trump's obsession with appearances is just another way to dodge the issues Americans actually care about -- like gas prices and endless war.
Michelle Obama's brother Craig Robinson thinks she'd make a great commander-in-chief ... but he says there's no chance she's running for president -- no matter how insane the world gets.
We got Craig at LAX, and our photog asked him how crazy things would need to get for Michelle to feel like she needs to run for the White House.
Craig says there's no crazy threshold ... it ain't happening no matter what. So fans of the former First Lady shouldn't expect her to ride onto the 2028 debate stage like a knight in shining armor.
Jaime West -- a Democrat running for a county council seat in Indiana -- is ripping into Republicans, claiming she's getting death threats ... and firing back with an explosive warning of her own.
The candidate for Fayette County Council, District 4, in the Hoosier State appeared on a general election candidates' forum where she was asked what policy she wants to pass that would be good for the county, but perhaps unpopular with voters.
Jaime thinks about it ... then says she wants to fire all MAGA Republicans -- calling them racist, dumb, and saying she straight up doesn't like being around them.
8:32 AM PT -- Kimberly Guilfoylehas responded after being asked to step down, posting online and saying, in part, that she will vigorously fight the allegations against her.
President Trump is not firing Kimberly Guilfoyle, but he's asked her to resign in the wake of her American Express scandal.
Trump's new White House Press Secretary,Katie Zacharia, told the media Tuesday that Trump asked Guilfoyle to leave her post as U.S. Ambassador to Greece.
Zacharia said the Trump White House wished Guilfoyle well. It's unclear if Guilfoyle has tendered her resignation.
