Is this a cry for help from the White House from the press secretary?
You nailed it. Period! https://t.co/AUmS1C222b
— Sean Spicer (@seanspicer) January 29, 2017
Surely not. Everything is fine, after all, and even if it wasn't the dude has his own flak jacket.
U.S. President Donald Trump's spokesman on Sunday tweeted his seeming support for the satirical The Onion video, which defined his role in the controversial administration as providing "the American public with robust and clearly articulated misinformation".
Even if he's not supporting it, he's clearly willing to take the piss out of himself. His use of 'period!' became one of the defining points of ridicule from his first press briefing.
Spicer's first day on the job ended poorly when he declared -- despite overwhelming evidence otherwise -- that Trump's was the "largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period, both in person and around the globe".
Inauguration Day crowds for President Trump in 2017 and former President Obama in 2009: https://t.co/I2emA3LokP pic.twitter.com/KFg3dwAesA
— ABC News (@ABC) January 21, 2017
This effort spawned the worst phrases of 2017 -- alternative facts -- and spawned a battery of alternative departmental Twitter accounts.
Kellyanne Conway: Sean Spicer gave "alternative facts"@chucktodd: "Alternative facts are not facts. They're falsehoods." pic.twitter.com/QBkoDqoTdp
— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) January 22, 2017
It wasn't the last time the press secretary -- who really has a thing for gum and tweeted something that looked a lot like a password -- courted ridicule and controversy.
"Sometimes we can disagree with the facts" - White House press secretary @seanspicer responds to recent criticism https://t.co/y1uzJ9cA2j pic.twitter.com/ilbKRqc52L
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) January 23, 2017
The U.S. Holocaust museum issued a statement critical of Trump and Spicer leaving out Jews of their statements marking the World War II atrocity.
This statement from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is a pretty strong rebuke of the Trump administration: pic.twitter.com/w3ogGPb9gw
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) January 30, 2017
Sean Spicer Uses San Bernardino Shooting To Justify Banning 220 Million People https://t.co/eZpen3g9P2
— Ryan Anthony Flagg (@ryanaflagg) January 30, 2017
Serial airline tweeter Sean Spicer says airport detainees shouldn't complain https://t.co/KSLjmKd4Ue pic.twitter.com/4TINeXd5Ws
— Huffington Post (@HuffingtonPost) January 30, 2017