NewsBusters Podcast: Sean Spicer on the Outraged Press vs. 'Trump 2.0'
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NewsBusters Podcast: Sean Spicer on the Outraged Press vs. 'Trump 2.0'

Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer has a brand-new book titled Trump 2.0: The Revolution That Will Permanently Transform America. The book blurb boasts: “President Donald J. Trump’s second term in office will be the most consequential administration in history because of the people and the policies that are markedly different than his first term.” MRC Free Speech America vice president Dan Schneider joined me to discuss with Sean how different Term 2 is from Term 1. He began with the Defense Secretaries: Gen. Jim Mattis barely knew Trump when he was appointed, but Trump's known Pete Hegseth for more than a decade. The media complained that Trump has now appointed "loyalists" to his Cabinet. That's what reporters say when they refuse to leak negative information. Biden's cabinet was stuffed full of "loyalists" who pretended Biden wasn't mentally declining. Dan suggested that Mike Pence acted as "Cheerleader-in-Chief" when he was vice president, while J.D. Vance is different. Spicer suggested Pence was more of an old-school Reagan Republican, where Vance is more aligned with Trump's positions against free trade and long wars.  Then there was the ruined White House Correspondents Dinner, where the shooter denied us the chance to witness President Trump roasting reporters. Spicer says Republicans should never go to the White House Correspondents Dinner: “Don’t go give them their credibility by going to their dinner and be a prop.” This was underlined by Sarah Huckabee Sanders going to the dinner in 2018 and getting roasted by liberal comedian Michele Wolf, who said she "burns facts" for her eye shadow. Then Trump granted an interview to Norah O'Donnell on 60 Minutes, where she dared to read the manifesto of the crazy man who wanted to kill Trump, where he called the president a rapist, a pedophile, and a traitor. Axios said Trump broke the "truce" with the press by objecting to the questioner as "disgusting," when that obnoxious question broke any truce that was in place. Enjoy the podcast below, or the audio version is here. Sean's book can be found on Amazon here.