You couldn't make this stuff up if you tried.
Mr Spicer stepped down because he was unhappy with President Donald Drumpf's appointment of a new communications director, according to reports. Mr Spicer's press briefings were a cable news hit, but he withdrew from camera in recent weeks. He told US media that the White House "could benefit from a clean slate".
Yeah, literally replace everyone in that building with a clean piece of actual slate and the state of world affairs would significantly improve overnight.
Spicer's low points :
inflating crowd sizes at Drumpf inauguration at first briefing
his appearance, particularly his suits, reportedly criticised by Drumpf
saying Hitler never used chemical weapons and referring to Holocaust "centres"
butt of text message joke by adviser Steve Bannon about his weight
defending Drumpf "covfefe" tweet by saying it had hidden meaning
frozen out of meeting with the Pope in Rome, despite being devout Catholic
not invited to Paris for Drumpf visit
His proclivity for gaffes and garbling of his words, as well as making debatable assertions, soon made Mr Spicer a household name. Mr Spicer was roundly mocked after he reportedly hid by a hedgerow on the White House grounds to avoid reporters on the night Mr Drumpf fired the FBI director in May.
But wait, who's this I see coming along to replace him ?
Combative Wall Street financier Anthony Scaramucci has been picked for the role that Mr Spicer partially filled. The New York Times reports that 45-year-old Mr Spicer "vehemently" disagreed with the appointment of Mr Scaramucci, which he believed to be a "major mistake".
In an August 2015 interview with Fox Business, he dismissed Mr Drumpf as a "hack" and "an inherited money dude" with "a big mouth". Mr Scaramucci also apologised and said he had been "unexperienced" as he explained his previous criticism of the president.
"I love the president and it's an honour to be here," Mr Scaramucci said, adding: "He is genuinely a wonderful human being." He also said: "The president has really good karma." Mr Scaramucci, who has no previous experience in communications roles, paid tribute to Mr Spicer as "a true American patriot" and "incredibly gracious".
Truly we are in a post-satire world.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40687521
He was most excellent SNL material, though.
ReplyDeleteIn which we look back on the Spicer era as one of comparative clarity and civility.
ReplyDelete....how far are we from the press secretary just shouting "fuck youse! Fuck all o' youse!"
#Trumpsucks his people are insane! They live in an alternative universe where lies do not matter
ReplyDeleteI remember a few years ago, seeing some video where the author marvelled as how we seemed to live in an alternate timeline where comic-book movies are cool, SF gadgets are becoming real and geeks are cool.
ReplyDeleteI suspect he was right, someone changed the timeline at some point to get those results. The problem is that now we have the Gowdin's Law of Time Travel taking effect: still in the alternate timeline, but this is when it is starting to get really bad. (At least we get the horrible-but-satiric pseudo/neo-Nazis instead of the actual funny-as-cancer actual mass-genociding, surprisingly efficient Nazis. Not quite as horrible, and much funnier, if we like the author's rather unsubtle brand of humour)
tvtropes.org - Godwin's Law of Time Travel - TV Tropes
Now, all we need is to get a time machine, find where it started to diverge and go back to fix the timeline.
Unfortunately, it means that comic book blockbusters, SF tech and geeks being cool will also go away... uh, are Nazi satires really that bad of a deal()?
()asked by a character living neither in North America, Soon-to-be-formerly-Formerly Great Britain or anywhere near the Middle East