White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki. File photoWASHINGTON, May 13.Jen Psaki, recognizable in Russia no less than in the United States, leaves the post of official representative of the White House on Friday in order, according to the main, but not yet confirmed version, to retrain as a journalist. To voice the American position regarding the conflict in Ukraine, one of the sharpest geopolitical crises of our time, and to formulate messages for the electorate on the eve of the midterm congressional elections, where the Republican opposition is eager to take revenge, then there will be Karine Jean-Pierre, the first ever black press secretary of the White House. Psaki's new place of work has not yet been officially announced. According to rumors, she will work on the pro-democracy channel MSNBC. Psaki herself jokes that after retiring she will sleep, read books and watch TV shows. “I have nothing to announce plans. Sleep, read books, if there is something to watch on Netflix or Hulu, I am open to recommendations,” said Psaki at one of her last briefings. In her 16 months at the White House, she held (as of Tuesday) 222 — 17 more than all the press secretaries of the previous President Donald Trump combined, the American press calculated, generally speaking complimentary of Psaki.
Americans were angered by Psaki's words about Putin and Victory Day. Psaki became the official representative of the current administration immediately after Biden's victory in the 2020 elections, without even waiting for his inauguration. In the press service of the White House, although in more modest positions, she also worked under the previous Democratic President Barack Obama. In Russia, Psaki became famous when she was the press secretary of the State Department. Numerous reservations and frequent confusion, combined with sharp attacks on Moscow, then turned it into an object of criticism and parodies. In the White House, there were noticeably fewer errors in Psaki's statements, but sympathy for Russia and its leaders did not increase. About Psaki's successor, Jean-Pierre, it is also known that she is an open lesbian and is raising her daughter with her partner, CNN correspondent Susan Malvo. Summing up the results of her regular trip to power, Psaki admitted that the most difficult thing in her work was the frequent threats that came to her and her household. “I received terrible letters, texts addressed personally to me with the names of my children,” she told reporters. The most ridiculous episode in the briefing room Psaki considers the request to promise that Biden’s dog will be left alive after she bit a Secret Service employee. The dog named Major was not euthanized, but was evicted from the White House.
