Pressing matters: Trump's new spokeswoman struggles on day one

TOI Correspondent from Washington: For a White House that treats politics as a television spectacle and television as a political show, Donald Trump's press secretaries have often looked as though they were selected by a casting director rather than the administration’s personnel office. Katie Zacharia arrived at the White House press room lectern on Tuesday camera-ready, with the familiar blonde look that prompted comparisons with Ivanka Trump, which some trolls insist is a required qualification for the job.Then she opened her mouth, made a meal of a $54 billion pipeline, confused her husband with her new boss, answered three questions from favoured media, and made a hasty exit, reminding America that reading the script and performing the job are two very different things.