U.S. President Donald Trump attends a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., December 2, 2025. REUTERS Brian Snyder
An attorney from President Donald Trump’s first presidential administration shared his remarkably dim view of the current crew, particularly in the five-day dismissal of Trump’s latest press secretary.
Former Trump attorney Ty Cobb laid low the current administration and its inept crew on CNN’s “out Front with Erin Burnett,” while lamenting that it appeared only the women in the Trump administration suffered for their mistakes.
“[Katie Zacharia] met the she met the key qualification, of course, having filled her [video] pieces on TV with adulation and praise for the president,” said Cobb. “She met the obsessively loyal idolater standard, which is the essential standard for Trump hires. And of course, she's blond, sort of, like creepy Karoline [Leavitt] and Natalie Harp. But Trump also thought she was a lawyer and he was a little surprised when she wasn’t.”
He corrected Trump’s claim that Zacharia was “treated unfairly” by the media.
“She hasn't been treated unfairly by the by the media. She's been treated unfairly by the president,” said Cobb. “The vetting process is there to protect not just the president, but also the candidate. You don't want somebody who is not qualified or you're hiring them to fail. And she failed miserably, in large part because of the absence of a vetting process.”
But this is a president who has also fired DHS head Kristi Noem former U.S. AG Pam Bondi as well as Tulsi Gabbard and department of labor head Lori Chavez-Deremer and, more recently, ambassador Kimberly Guilfoyle.
“[U.S. Rep.] Elise Stefanik was promised the U.N. position, and Trump canned her and ruined her political career forever and gave it to Waltz,” Cobb continued. “So, that is contrasted with [Secretary of Defense Pete] Hegseth, who puts an Atlantic reporter on a classified telephone conference and [FBI Director] Kash Patel, who flies around the world drunk everywhere and misuses his airplane and personnel for the benefit of his girlfriend, and Lutnick, who lies about his Epstein ties. … There’s no consequences for the men, only for the women. So, I think that's sad.”
Cobb added that he hoped another woman in Trump’s orbit, Susie Wiles is also “reading the tea leaves” on Trump’s treachery toward women and is preparing to leap before she’s pushed.
And, and in terms of those that are circling [for Wiles’ job], Stephen Miller actually benefits from having Wiles in the role because Miller is the de facto chief of staff. He dictates the policies of the White House and he gets a little bit of cover there. If he was out front and had the title, he might take more flak. But in terms of [U.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill] Pulte, I mean, Pulte does have the two-digit IQ that qualifies many of the people in this administration for a job, but we'd rather see somebody more competent.”