WATCH: Trump's New Press Secretary Katie Zacharia’s AWKWARD Debut Briefing

Katie Zacharia, the new White House press secretary, faced reporters briefly for the first time on 13 October (US Time), taking a handful of questions before abruptly wrapping it up, news agency AP said. Zacharia, a conservative commentator who earlier worked for President Donald Trump’s social media company, was named as Karoline Leavitt's sucessor, who left in August and is joining Fox News. White House advisers and officials shared negative reviews of her debut appearance with CNN. One characterising it as ‘brutal.’ Others that CNN spoke with described her performance as ‘unusual’, ‘awkward’, ‘stilted’ and, at times, ‘uncomfortable.’ “She should have been doing murder boards for two weeks before going up there,” one Trump adviser told CNN, before critiquing Zacharia’s performanc