After
only 6 months, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer has resigned. He
reportedly told President Trump about his intent this morning...
A source said Spicer is upset but will help with
transition.
Spicer stepped down after the
president reportedly tapped Anthony Scaramucci, a New York financier and
longtime Trump supporter, as the new White House communications director.
The White House had been without
a communications director since May, when Mike Dubke resigned from the role in
the first personnel shakeup of the Trump administration. Spicer had taken
on the responsibilities associated with the job in the interim and strongly
opposed Trump’s decision to hire Scaramucci, according to reports.
Spicer’s future behind the podium
of the James S Brady Press Briefing Room had long been tenuous, as his tenure
was marked by almost continuous controversy.
From his very first appearance
before the cameras, when he angrily chastised the media over the crowd size at
Trump’s presidential inauguration, Spicer swiftly emerged as ridiculed figure
for his aggressive attitude towards journalists, false statements and gaffes.
He was memorably mocked by the
actor Melissa McCarthy on NBC’s Saturday Night Live, an act that deeply irked
Trump, who saw Spicer’s portrayal by a woman as a sign of weakness. Reports
would frequently surface of the White House searching for possible replacements
for Spicer, with some candidates acknowledging to the media that they had been
interviewed for the job, an unusually public slight for an administration
official of such high rank.
Perhaps the most damaging blow to
Spicer came during Trump’s first foreign trip as president, when the press
secretary, a devout Catholic, was shut out of a meeting with Pope Francis at
the Vatican.
One of Spicer’s most egregious
gaffes came in April, when, in an attempt to highlight the barbarity of Syria’s
embattled president Bashar al-Assad, Spicer stated that “not even Hitler”
employed the use of chemical weapons, despite the fact that Nazis killed
millions with poison gas during the Holocaust.
Spicer apologized
repeatedly, saying he had “made a mistake” and “screwed up”.
It was one of a series of
gaffes in his short career as Trump’s press secretary.
The Trump-Spicer marriage may
have been destined for an early divorce from the start. Spicer, who previously
worked as the communications director of the Republican National Committee, was
not an early supporter of Trump during the GOP primary.
It was also rumored in Washington
that Trump, who deeply values loyalty, had soured on Spicer early on in his
tenure as press secretary – perhaps as early as his first press statement, when
Spicer angrily berated reporters and gave false information about the size of
Trump’s inauguration crowd.
Source: The Guardian
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