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CNN’s Jim Acosta: White House Spokesman Sean Spicer Is “Kind Of Useless”

CNN’s Jim Acosta is pretty much DONE with the lack of communication coming out of the White House these days.

Today saw the White House daily press briefing devolve into an off-the-air, no cameras, no audio recording “gaggle” where Spicer basically offered no answers to questions asked by the White House press corp.

“The White House press secretary is getting to a point, Brooke, where he’s just kind of useless,” Acosta told CNN’s Brooke Baldwin. “You know, if he can’t come out and answer the questions and they’re not going to do this on camera or audio…why are we having these briefings or gaggles in the first place?”

According to Politico, Spicer is pushing to move into a new position that would oversee communications for the entire White House, advocating for a new press secretary to take his place. Fox News personality Laura Ingraham has apparently met with the powers that be in the Trump administration about the position.

The president hasn’t held a true press conference since February.

Watch Acosta’s justified frustrations below.

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Sean Spicer Benched From White House Press Briefing

You can only guess that President Trump has lost faith in the answers and optics of Sean Spicer handling questions at the podium of White House press briefings.

National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster held today’s on-camera press briefing at 11:30 AM, while Spicer will reportedly hold an off-camera briefing at 2PM with the White House press pool.

Last night, McMaster denounced the Washington Post‘s report that President Donald Trump revealed highly classified intelligence with Russian officials last week in the Oval Office.

Today, McMaster told the White House press pool that the conversation with the Russian Foreign Minister and Ambassador was “wholly appropriate,” even though President Trump didn’t even know where the information he shared came from.

Before that, however, Trump threw his national security team under the bus by tweeting he did indeed share the intel with Russia, adding he has the “absolute right” to do so.

According to Buzzfeed reporter Adrian Carrasquillo, White House staffers turned the TVs in the West Wing up to drown out the back-and-forth of a closed door meeting where Team Trump attempted to figure their way out of this latest misstep.

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“Sean Spicer” And “Donald Trump” Make Out In SNL Sketch

Melissa McCarthy as “Sean Spicer” and Alec Baldwin as “Donald Trump”

With Melissa McCarthy returning to Saturday Night Live for her 5th appearance as host, fans immediately hoped for a reprisal of her wild and wacky version of White House Press Secretary, Sean Spicer.

Not only did SNL deliver more “Spicey” Spicer, but we got a double-team with Alec Baldwin’s “President Trump.”

In the skit, an embattled “Spicer” returns to the press podium at the White House to explain that Trump had nothing to do with Russian interference during the 2016 election.

“Let me just put this whole Russian thing to bed once and for all: Trump is innocent. How do we know? Because he told us so. Period. Then he hired lawyers to agree with him. And they’re gonna prove it with a certified letter which you know is the truth because it costs an extra $2 to have it certified.”

But “Spicey” is quickly informed by White House press correspondents that Trump is prepping to replace him with press side-kick Sarah Huckabee.

Immediately hitting the road (via his podium), the press secretary sets out to find his boss and directly ask about the possible firing.

But Baldwin’s Trump demures, “Sean, come on, I would never do that. She doesn’t have your special spice—salt and pepper, a little bit of sugar.” Then, switching gears, Trump pleads, “Sean, kiss me.”

“No, I’m married,” Spicer argues. “I can’t, I have a wife, I took vows!”

“I’m famous, it’s okay,” Trump says.

I’m amazed the Trumpster hasn’t issued one of his Twitter rants yet.

Watch the segment below.

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NY Times: Possible White House Shakeup In The Works

President Trump


The New York Times reports that a major shakeup could be in the works for the Trump administration.

Mr. Trump is growing increasingly dissatisfied with the performance of his chief of staff, Reince Priebus; the communications director, Michael Dubke; and Mr. Spicer, a Priebus ally, according to a half-dozen West Wing officials who said the president was considering the most far-reaching shake-up of his already tumultuous term.

He has been especially critical of Mr. Spicer, they said, openly musing about replacing him and telling people in his circle that he kept his own press secretary out of the loop in dismissing Mr. Comey until the last possible moment because he feared that the communications staff would leak the news.

Mr. Spicer’s blustery style mimics Mr. Trump’s, but people close to both men said he has not developed an especially close relationship with the president and has failed to use the self-protective tools that savvier Trump aides have adopted.

That seems to be changing. On Friday, Mr. Spicer prefaced much of what he said at the daily briefing with, “The president’s statement.” And while Mr. Trump has raised the Fox News host Kimberly Guilfoyle to allies as a possible press secretary, he has spent several hours with Mr. Spicer this week, praising his television “ratings” during the briefings.

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Melissa McCarthy Takes To The Streets Of NYC In Full “Sean Spicer” Drag

I can’t wait for Saturday Night Live tomorrow night! Squee!!!

Melissa McCarthy was seen shooting a segment for SNL today in character as “Sean Spicer” via a motorized podium heading down 58th Street in New York City.

Remember the show will be broadcast live across all time zones, so check your airtime.

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SNL: Melissa McCarthy Teases More Sean Spicer With Swirling “I Feel Pretty”

SNL teases Melissa McCarthy’s hosting gig this weekend (her fifth appearance as host) with this lovely video of McCarthy lip-syncing to “I Feel Pretty” as she gets all “duded” up as her Sean Spicer alter-ego.

This weekend’s show will be broadcast live across all time zones. So you west-coasters – tune in early!

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Sparky Spicer: Syria’s Bashar Al-Assad Is Worse Than Hitler

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer, during a press briefing, told reporters that Syria’s Bashar al-Assad is worse than Hilter, because even Hitler didn’t use chemical weapons on his own people.

Hello? Gas chambers???

Via the New York Daily News:

“We didn’t use chemical weapons in WWII. We had someone as despicable as Hitler who didn’t even sink to using chemical weapons,” Spicer declared as he attacked Russia for backing Bashar Assad’s brutal regime in Syria.

He dug himself deeper when offered a chance to clarify a few minutes later. “When you come to sarin gas, he was not using the gas on his own people the same way that Assad is doing,” he said to shock in the White House briefing room. Hitler infamously used hydrogen cyanide known as Zyklon B at Nazi death camps targeting Jewish and other people.

You know, maybe this isn’t the best job for Sparky Spicer. Maybe some kind of desk job where you don’t put your foot in your mouth in front of millions of people…?

If you have to clarify your comment about Hitler, you probably shouldn’t have said it from the get-go.

p.s. Happy Passover from the White House

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Trump Officially Backpedals On “Wire Tapping,” Meant “Surveillance”

At a heated White House press briefing, Sean Spicer had a near melt-down over what he feels is “unfair” coverage of President Trump’s assertion that President Obama personally ordered a wire tap on Trump’s phones in Trump Tower.

Spicer attempted to distort the bipartisan statement issued today by the Chair and Vice-Chair of the Senate Intelligence committee which read, “Based on the information available to us, we see no indications that Trump Tower was the subject of surveillance by any element of the United States government either before or after Election Day 2016.”

So, to be clear, both the Senate and House Intelligence committees have announced they see no evidence of any surveillance by the U.S. of Donald Trump.

As expected, Spicer finally began backpedaling by saying what Trump meant when he tweeted “wire tapp” was “surveillance.”

To be exact, in two separate tweets Trump specifically said “tapping my phones:”