Day 242: Don’t Celebrate Sean Spicer, Ridicule Him
Former Press Secretary Sean Spicer appeared at the Emmy Awards last night, apparently to sort-of poke fun at himself.
Spicer, as you may recall, stood as Donald Trump’s mouthpiece for months and lied and lied and lied. He falsely claimed Trump’s inauguration attendance was bigger than Barack Obama. He demanded cameras be turned off at briefings. He cancelled others. He eschewed normal conventions and promoted the rise of propaganda-type networks. He promised to get back to reporters on difficult questions, but rarely ever did. He proclaimed that Hitler never user chemical weapons.
America should not be laughing with Spicer; they should be laughing at Spicer. He doesn’t deserve exorbitant speaking engagements or fellowships at prestigious universities. He was paid a handsome salary out of the pockets of the taxpayers and lied to millions of Americans every single day. Where’s the glory in that?
Spicer should be ridiculed in the grocery store. His phone calls should be ignored. When people see him on the street, they should literally turn and walk the other direction. His invites to parties should be lost in the mail. He should be booed mercilessly when walking into a restaurant. He should disappear from public life for years. This is the only way anyone in the Trump administration will ever learn: what you have done, what you are doing and what you will do is unacceptable. We don’t forget it just because you left a job in the spotlight and can kinda-sorta laugh at yourself. You get no credit for trying to normalize a crazy and dangerous individual.
If Spicer — or anyone — wanted credit he had two options: 1) immediately walk away as soon as he was forced to lie or 2) never accept the job in the first place (which, by many accounts, a ton of competent and patriotic people have done).
Chief economic advisor and serial waffler Gary Cohn deserves no admiration for consistently leaking reports that he’s unhappy with Trump but wants to stay to help be the voice of reason in the room anyway. Attorney General Jeff Sessions gets no hat tip for threatening to resign. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson gets only derision for mere rumors that he’s likely to leave by the end of the year. Former advisors Steve Bannon and Sebastian Gorka certainly don’t get accolades for being fired.
Like a child throwing a temper tantrum on Aisle 5, every single person in this administration deserves — at best — to be completely ignored when they leave the White House: no job offers, no limelight, no celebration.
242 days in, 1220 to go
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