The MAGA faithful have made their pick — and they are circulating the evidence. A two-minute clip racing through social media this weekend stitches together Kari Lake's most combative showdowns with the press, and the message to President Donald Trump could not be plainer: put her behind the briefing room podium. "She's the one we want," the post says, tagging the President himself.
The timing is no accident. The Press Secretary job is the most fought-over seat in Washington right now: Karoline Leavitt's departure, and the exit of her announced successor Katie Zacharia, have thrown the race wide open. A prediction market on who takes the podium opened on October 16, and Lake's name is already on the board.
The clip makes its case with Lake's own voice. Asked for an interview, she deadpans: "As long as it airs on CNN Plus. Does that still exist? I didn't think so, because the people don't like what you guys are peddling, which is propaganda." To another outlet: "I don't talk to your paper because it's a rag." And to a reporter pressing her on Arizona's election: "You are just part of the fake news and you're lying. You don't know a damn thing about Arizona."
It rolls on — a history lesson for a skeptical interviewer ("You don't understand what it means to shed blood for your freedom like we did here, when we broke ourselves free from a tyrant called King George"), and her famous sit-down with Piers Morgan, where she turned the tables completely: "You work for one of the corporate giants. You work for Rupert Murdoch... that's who signs your check, Piers." When Morgan suggested she needed her head examined, Lake fired it straight back: "I actually think you need your head examined."
That is precisely the point her supporters are making. The briefing room is a daily knife fight with a hostile press corps, and Lake has been winning those fights in public for years — two decades as a Phoenix television anchor taught her the media's game from the inside before she ever ran for office. Trump backed her for Arizona governor in 2022 and for the U.S. Senate in 2024; in this administration she has served as a senior advisor at the U.S. Agency for Global Media, and in May the President nominated her to be U.S. Ambassador to Jamaica, a nomination still awaiting the Senate.
None of that moves without one man's say-so. The faithful have spoken, loudly and in her own words. The podium is waiting — and so is Trump's decision.
Watch the clip below. Original post: x.com/Chicago1Ray
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