Spicer On Cohn Being ‘First Relevant’ WH Departure: ‘I Think I Was Relevant’

Outgoing White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer smiles as he walks to the West Wing of the White House in Washington, DC, on July 21, 2017. Spicer abruptly resigned on Friday after a tumultuous six months in the s... Outgoing White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer smiles as he walks to the West Wing of the White House in Washington, DC, on July 21, 2017. Spicer abruptly resigned on Friday after a tumultuous six months in the spotlight. / AFP PHOTO / JIM WATSON (Photo credit should read JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer wants everyone to know that his brief but tumultuous stint in the West Wing was “relevant.”

Appearing on Fox Business on Friday morning, Spicer hit back at WSJ’s Friday op-ed arguing that Trump’s outgoing chief economic adviser Gary Cohn “is the first of the relevant to leave.”

“I think I was relevant, for a day or two,” Spicer said as he attempted to awkwardly laugh off what he took as a political burn.

The Fox panel rushed to soften the blow to Spicer’s ego by pointing out that WSJ didn’t include him in the “long list of questionable people,” which includes Omarosa Manigault-Newman, Hope Hicks, Anthony Scaramucci, Steve Bannon, Sebastian Gorka and Reince Priebus.

“I think there are some of those folks on that list that I care about that have been loyal and instrumental to the President and helping him navigate his first year,” Spicer said. “So I take exception to the list. I’m not going to comment on all the names.”

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  1. Avatar for jsfox jsfox says:

    "I think I was relevant, for a day or two,” Just sad.

  2. Avatar for ghost ghost says:

    Oh Sean… you just keep thinking that. If WSJ left him off “the list of questionable people,” it’s because they forgot about him.

    Then again, you were relevant to SNL.

  3. Irrelevant! Sad!

    Oh god, I’d have given a hundred dollars for the opportunity to be the one to twist this particular knife.

    Three hundred for SHS, once her noxious presence exits the West Wing.

  4. I’m surprised Spicer didn’t hedge his response…

  5. His reply to the insult was
    :sunglasses:
    rather bush league.

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