Mike's Minute: The wrong pick for the White House Press Sec

From the White House, Katie Zacharia was a disaster. 

This perhaps wouldn’t matter so much if the President wasn’t about to get caned in the midterms. 

It might not matter so much if the job wasn’t so important. It might not matter so much if all the others had been as disastrous as Ms Zacharia. 

"Zachbot" is what one outlet called her. 

Outside of letting the world know the Greek grifter had been sacked, she said nothing, knew nothing and left. 

It's hard, and not hard, to see why she got the job. It's not hard because she is female and you could describe her as "pretty". 

That of course under normal circumstances is not something we should be dabbling in, but these aren't normal circumstances and the Trump job machine produces an overtly disproportionate number of quite pretty woman in public rolls. 

But it is hard, if you discount the looks bit, to see why a Scott Jennings didn’t get it. 

Jennings is a CNN regular for the Republican side of the equation. He has worked with both Bushes and with Mitt Romney. He is experienced, he is bright and he is very articulate. If they were skills you were after and you had a “skill off" between Jennings and Zacharia, Scott is your man. 

If you insist on looks, Katie Miller and Monica Crowley were in the running and Alina Habba, his lawyer, would have been if she hadn't bailed early. 

The trouble with newbies is they're compared to the others, and the others included everyone from Kayleigh McEnany to Karoline Leavitt, to Sean Spicer. 

Spicer was useless. Anthony Scaramucci, who technically wasn’t the Press Secretary but the Communications Director, was good but short lived because he got a case of the guilts. Read his book, it's good. 

Sarah Huckabee Sanders was so good she went on to be a governor, although the lineage might have helped. 

But the point is, as much as you might want to make fun of this job and the Trump White House, the truth is Leavitt was amazing. Forget politics – in her job, in selling the message and knowing her stuff, she was world class, if not in a class of her own. McEnany wasn’t far behind. 

Trump has picked some brilliant operators. Unless Zacharia was having a meltdown, or Jennings was offered the job but turned it down, Trump will be losing the midterms and a press secretary by the end of November.