Sean Spicer’s press briefings are America’s new favorite soap opera
For those of us who’ve had a rough three weeks since President Donald Trump took office, there’s been a small silver lining shining through the bilious orange clouds: the knowledge that Trump’s press secretary, Sean Spicer, has been having a pretty hard time of it, too. Spicer’s been getting hit since literally day two of the Trump administration, when he first took the White House briefing room podium to dish up some “alternative facts”—i.e., lies—about the size of Trump’s inaugural crowds. Since then, the internet’s been eager to find every embarrassing thing Spicer’s ever done—fighting with Dippin’ Dots, getting tricked by The Onion, agreeing to sit down for the world’s most incompetently shot video interview with Breitbart—and hold it up to the light. There have even been murmurs of the White House interviewing new press secretaries, which is exactly the sort of stressor that might make a man add an extra pack a day to his usual gum-swallowing routine.