Spicer has resigned. We’ll give you all a second to recover from gasping so hard from shock that you collectively passed out.
All better? Good.
According to The New York Times, Spicer gave his resignation within moments of President Trump’s official appointment of the New York financier Anthony Scaramucci as communications director.
While the reason behind it hardly matters, and everyone is surprised he remained in the position even this long, we will miss him and his … unique way of dealing with the press.
Never in the history of politics has one of the President’s employees, whose job it was to deal with the news and reacting to inflammatory headlines, wound up in the news as much, causing so many inflammatory headlines to be written, to which he would then react, and on and on the cycle went…
So with that in mind, here’s our Spicey Best Bits!
That time, during his first week in office, that it appeared Spicer tweeted out his password:
Does anyone know if this gets saved in the Library of Congress for eternity? pic.twitter.com/5uLePgysYt
— Siraj Datoo (@dats) January 26, 2017
That time Spicer gave an outrageous explanation for the White House media ban:
? Here’s audio of what @seanspicer said at a press gaggle where certain media outlets were blocked from attending https://t.co/UVBA6wxHob pic.twitter.com/8zWskdydzT
— POLITICO (@politico) February 24, 2017
That time Spicer came under fire for claiming Hitler didn’t use chemical weapons:
Spicer on Syria: “You had someone as despicable as Hitler who didn’t even sink to using chemical weapons…” pic.twitter.com/UN3JfRRg0w
— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) April 11, 2017
That time Spicer claimed he knew exactly what Donald Trump meant by that ‘covfefe’ tweet:
Reporters to @PressSec Sean Spicer:
“What is ‘covfefe’?”
“What does it mean?”
More on Trump’s mysterious tweet: https://t.co/8Vmt5hpnGK pic.twitter.com/AyaPKxJ9Rx— POLITICO (@politico) May 31, 2017
And of course, what list about Spicer could be complete without mentioning Melissa McCarthy’s every-award-going deserving performance:
Clip via Saturday Night Live
