Outgoing White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre will no longer be leading the White House Press Room after President Joe Biden leaves office later this month.
Jean-Pierre’s credentials would lead one to assume that she would have a long list of career suiters after his stint at The White House is over.
But according to reports, this may be KJP’s last job!
According to a report from The Daily Caller, which interviewed a panel of media luminaries, many assumed that KJP would follow in the steps of past press secretaries and become a panelist on a mainstream news network.
“She’ll go where all the other failed Hollywood actors go when they’re useless to the deep state: a cable chat show that exclusively exists to sell weird books and products to lonely women,” media veteran Kay Hill said.
NewsBusters Managing Editor Curtis Houck agreed, saying “I fully anticipate someone will hire her as a contributor, whether it be a return to MSNBC or even CNN.”
Jean-Pierre’s predecessor, Jen Psaki, left the Biden White House in 2022 to host her own show “Inside with Jen Psaki” on MSNBC.
However, Houck noted that KJP’s notorious propensity for bending the truth could actually disqualify her from landing a TV gig.
“In a merit-based world, Karine Jean-Pierre would be unemployable in TV news,” Houck said.
“It’s still remarkable to me that she spent years as an established cable news pundit and sitting for lengthy segments where guests would have to think on their feet and go beyond talking points.”
Though others suggested that this quality might make her a perfect person to be on TV.
“KJP was so dumb, so dishonest, and so bad at her job that I can only assume she’ll have a show on CBS News next year,” Mollie Hemingway, a best-selling author and editor-in-chief of The Federalist said.
Scott Jennings, a popular conservative commentator on CNN and new member of the LA Times editorial board, also agreed, saying she kept Joe Biden’s cognitive decline under wraps.
“Where do you go to wash off the catastrophic amount of lying she did to the American people about Biden’s condition?”
“She’s at the center of the biggest scandal going in American politics,” he concluded.
Jean-Pierre repeatedly defended President Biden’s mental fitness and acuity, despite a clear and noticeable degradation of the President’s mental faculties.
In June she dismissed videos of the President wandering around aimlessly at the G7 Summit as “cheap fakes,” accusing media outlets who were reporting on the video of deceptive editing.
President Biden appeared to wander off at the G7 summit in Italy, with officials needing to pull him back to focus. https://t.co/M50eobWwHr pic.twitter.com/Uaw1etcUB8
— New York Post (@nypost) June 13, 2024
Houck also noted she may return to a spokesperson gig for an independent organization, like her previous job advocating for MoveOn.org.
Other experts floated the idea of a seven-figure book deal.
“Her obvious path is the classic spox role — big book with a gift advance, and gig on a cable news channel friendly to her side,” Wilfred Reilly, a professor of political science at Kentucky State University, told the Caller.
Reilly also noted the path is not an uncommon one for former cabinet secretaries, pointing out Psaki’s MSNBC job, as well as former George W. Bush advisor Karl Rove’s role as a Fox News contributor.
Where will KJP end up? Time will tell.