Like an unexpected cold wind in the middle of this long, dark winter, Sean Spicer has swept back in to our lives once more.
The former Press Secretary for the Trump Administration is back in the public eye as a “special correspondent” for, of all things, the syndicated ExtraTV entertainment news show.
In a new video posted by ExtraTV on Twitter, a hiking-vested Spicer is seen joshing around with current Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his wife Susan about the Oscars.
Why? We’re not exactly sure but it seems to be to put a light, puffy touch on some of the role players that are part of a notoriously embattled administration, a decision that, well, still doesn’t make a lot of sense.
In the above clip, Spicer discovered that Pompeo likes AC/DC and Toby Keith and he really liked Bohemian Rhapsody! In other words, no deep state secrets about summits with North Korea are unveiled here. It’s a short segment teasing a longer feature set to air on ExtraTV’s Wednesday night episode.
It’s the kind of lighter, puffier content aunts across America will devour. And, according to Spicer, that’s the point. In a phone call with Mashable, Spicer said, “it’s an opportunity to shed light on people you see only on the news.”
“It’s light, fun, it’s not a news segment,” he continued. “The goal is to make it a bipartisan thing.”
While bipartisanship may be the eventual goal, Spicer’s segments are, as I noted earlier, all focused on current members of the Trump administration. After Wednesday night’s visit with the Pompeos, ExtraTV will air a segment featuring Spicer’s visit with Trump aide Kellyanne Conway and her kids and another in which he chats with current Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and her husband Bryan.
As for if he’ll do more of this in the future, Spicer told me it’s a “one off,” adding, “I’ve always had the opportunity to do things I’ve enjoyed. It’s a cool idea.”
As for why ExtraTV decided to hone in on Spicer, who has been, to put it gently, something of a lightning rod of controversy, that’s more of a mystery. I’ve reached out to ExtraTV reps for more on that decision.
The idea, not surprisingly, isn’t exactly going over well on some corners of Twitter, of course, where the judgement is a bit harsher and confusion reigns. .
his pick of “Bohemian Rhapsody” is not even in the top 100 worst things about this
— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) February 20, 2019
Hey, remember when Sean Spicer lied to the press about crowd sizes on the first day on the job? But hey now he is a correspondent for @ExtraTV interviewing the Secretary of State for his former boss so it’s all good.https://t.co/sIMWavnubh
— Eric Michael Garcia (@EricMGarcia) February 20, 2019
Whatever this winds up being, it’s definitely a new addition to the ongoing list of bizarre moments Spicer’s had in the public eye, from all those wild press conferences to the incident with the fridge.
Good luck, Sean. Just steer clear of Beyoncé.
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