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Katie Zacharia and Trump’s women problem

34 min

Jonathan Yerushalmy and Reged Ahmad look at how Zacharia broke the record for shortest tenure as White House press secretary. They also look at the history of how women in the Trump administration have fared – compared with men. Also: is the US changing course on Russia’s war on Ukraine?

In this episode of Guardian Australia’s US politics podcast, co-hosts Jonathan Yerushalmy and Reged Ahmad look at how Katie Zacharia broke the record for shortest tenure as White House press secretary. They then examine the pattern of how women in the Trump administration are treated when they’re perceived to have made mistakes – versus how men seem to survive their missteps. They also look at how the US might be changing course on Russia’s war on Ukraine. Are relations between Donald Trump and Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelenskyy at their lowest point ever? And what happens if the US decides to take Vladimir Putin’s side in the war?