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During his tenure as White House press secretary, Spicer made a number of public
statements that were controversial and false,[5][6][7]
and he developed a contentious relationship with the
White House press corps.[8][9][10]
The first such instance occurred on January 21, 2017, the day following
Trump's inauguration. Spicer repeated the claim that crowds at
Trump's inauguration ceremony were the largest ever at such an event and
that the press had deliberately under-estimated the number of spectators.[11][12][13]
After this statement was widely criticized, Trump aide
Kellyanne Conway said that Spicer had presented what she called "alternative
facts" regarding the inauguration's attendance numbers.[14]
February 20: Sean Spicer, now Trump's press secretary, once knocked the
then-presidential candidate for saying that Sen. John McCain, who
was held as a POW for six years in Vietnam, was not a war hero
because he was caught.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/19/politics/craig-deare-white-house-trump/
April 11: The Anne Frank Center is
calling for White House press secretary Sean Spicer to be fired after his
Tuesday comments claiming Adolf Hitler did not use chemical weapons during World
War II.
May 31: White House press secretary Sean
Spicer on Wednesday offered a cryptic explanation for President Trump’s
incomplete, misspelled tweet that went viral overnight [covfefe].
“The president and a small group of people know exactly what he meant,” Spicer
told reporters.
July 17: Prospects for White House Press
Secretary Sean Spicer are ... unclear. His contentious clashes with reporters at
the briefing-room podium became regular fodder for late-night comedians, and
he’s not held an on-camera press briefing since June 20. Spicer didn’t accompany
the president on his recent trip to France, while [principal deputy press
secretary Sarah Huckabee] Sanders rode with Trump aboard Air Force one.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-16/trump-says-media-distorting-democracy-in-morning-twitter-post
July 17: White House press secretary Sean
Spicer contradicted a tweet earlier this morning from President Donald Trump and
said "there was nothing" that would cause anyone to think that the controversial
meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer had to do with anything
other than adoptions.
Hours earlier, Trump tweeted that most politicians would've gone to such a
meeting to collect opposition research, which is what Trump Jr. admitted the
meeting was supposed to be about.
July 17: The subject line of the
back-and-forth between [Trump, Jr.. and publicist Rob Goldstone] was "Russia -
Clinton - private and confidential," and Trump Jr. was promised incriminating
information on Hillary Clinton from a "Russian government attorney" that was
"part of Russia and its government's support for Mr. Trump," according to the
emails.
July 21: Trump offers White House
communications director job to Anthony Scaramucci
Scaramucci, 53, was offered the post of White House communications director by
President Donald J. Trump on Friday, according to multiple sources close to
Scaramucci. He will be filling a role left vacant by Trump’s former
communication’s Mike Dubke who
resigned in May.
