White House press secretary Sean Spicer said in a contentious exchange with a reporter on Thursday that it was the “silliest thing” to equate his press briefings with President Donald Trump’s tweets.
SiriusXM White House correspondent Jared Rizzi asked Spicer during his daily briefing about top Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway’s comment on Tuesday that the President “doesn’t have time to tweet about everything.”
“Something she said to CNN earlier this week is that the President doesn’t comment on everything,” the reporter said. “I want to contrast the President’s repeated statements about Nordstrom with the lack of comments about some other things, including, for example, the attack on Quebec’s mosque and other similar environments. Why is the President, when he chooses to—”
“I literally stand at this podium and opened a briefing a couple days ago about the President expressing his condolences,” Spicer interrupted. “I literally opened the briefing about it. So for you to sit there and say—”
“I was here!” the reporter interjected.
“I know, so why are you asking why he didn’t do it when I literally stood here and did it?” Spicer asked.
“I’m talking about the President’s statement—” the reporter said, speaking over Spicer.
“I don’t understand what you’re asking,” Spicer said.
“Kellyanne’s comments were about how the President doesn’t have time to tweet about everything,” the reporter said. “He’s tweeting about this. He’s not tweeting about something else.”
“I came out here and actually spoke about it and said the President—” Spicer said.
“We’re talking about the President’s time,” the reporter interjected.
“What are you—you’re equating me addressing the nation here and a tweet? I don’t, I mean that’s the silliest thing I’ve ever heard. OK. This is silly,” Spicer said, speaking over the reporter. “Next. OK. Thank you. You’ve asked your question. Thank you.”
Sounds like it’s getting to him. So… how long before Spiceboy quits because he needs to “spend more time with his family”?
No, Spicer just compared “so-called President” Trump with Thomas Jefferson. Now that is the silliest thing that I have ever heard.
Mellisa McCarthy: I cant keep up.
“I don’t understand what you’re asking,” Spicer said.
Time for Melissa to do another speak-with-props-to-draw-a-picture segment.
Edit: Now that we know having “girls” play these guys is the one thing that gets under their skin, I hope SNL does a skit where all the Trump guys are played by women, and KAC is done by a man (though I think Kate Mckinnon is a riot when she plays her).
Is he trying to write the script for Saturday night’s show?
I could see Melissa going after that reporter with the podium as she screams That’s the silliest thing I’ve ever heard!