Donald Trump takes away Sean Spicers Communications Director title after SNL debacle

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Last edited Wed Feb 8, 2017, 08:27 AM - Edit history (1)

It turns out all it took to get Donald Trump to demote Sean Spicer was to have him portrayed as a woman on Saturday Night Live. Nevermind that Spicer has been bumblingly incompetent for the entirety of his two-plus weeks on the job in the White House; that didn’t seem to matter so much. But now Trump thinks Spicer is “weak” because SNL used a female actress, Melissa McCarthy, to lampoon him, and sure enough, Spicer is being demoted.

Don’t get too excited just yet, as it appears Sean Spicer will continue doing the White House press briefings even after his demotion. But from the start, Spicer has been serving as White House Press Secretary and White House Communications Director, after Jason Miller had to decline the latter job due to a sex scandal. Communications Director is the more senior role of the two, but now that role is going to be taken away from Spicer, as CNN is reporting that the Trump White House has begun actively searching for a new Communications Director.

That means Spicer is being busted down to just being Press Secretary, and the new White House Communications Director will be his boss. When you hold two titles and the more senior title is taken away from you and given to someone new who then becomes your supervisor, that’s the textbook definition of a demotion no matter how the Trump White House ends up spinning it.

And that’s not a huge surprise, considering that the aggressively angry and defensive Spicer has the opposite demeanor of someone who should be dealing with the media, and based on his consistently poor performance, he needs supervision. But what stands out is that Donald Trump appears to have only instructed his people to demote Spicer and find a new Communications Director after Trump was embarrassed that a woman portrayed Spicer. No wonder the internet is now trying to get Rosie O’Donnell to portray Steve Bannon on SNL next.


http://www.palmerreport.com/opinion/communications-director-title-donald-trump-sean-spicer-snl/1417/
http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/07/politics/sean-spicer-white-house-communications/index.html

[Dorian Gray]

1. Please let

SNL have females impersonate his entire cabinet? And Trump himself!



Demotions for all.


(Who would we cast?)

[MiniMe]

12. Saw something on Facebook with some suggestions. Ellen as Mike Pence is one

[aikoaiko]

2. I don't know why so many in the media sympathize with Spicer

So often news folks say they like him and sympathize with the tough job he has.

But he chose to work for the known liar and appears to be incompetent and aggressive in his own right.

Maybe he brings nice fruit baskets to newsrooms when he visits.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

10. I didn't know they liked him. I don't see how. His demeanor is so bad. You can never expound at

all on a question before he blurts in. He purposely creates a frantic pace. Your question can only be 5 words - and who can formulate a good question in 5 words? And the press doesn't help each other either. While you are trying to blurt out your five words - everyone around you is waving their hands, yelling "Sean." The press should all get together and decide to remain completely still and silent while someone asks a question. And when Sean machine-guns a "non-answer" just sit there and wait until he answers properly.

[sunonmars]

3. Trump will flip his lid if Rosie O'Donnell does start playing on SNL.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

11. That might push too far - remember he's got those nuke codes.

[patricia92243]

4. First, the demotion, then the firing. I will give it another

week or two.

It will be the beginning of a pattern - demote them then fire them. Most people just go ahead a quit if they are demoted.

[Dave Starsky]

5. Wait a minute. WTF?

He's been publicly demoted, someone else is getting his old job and is going to be his new boss, and he's sticking around?

You really are a little weenie, aren't you, Sean? No wonder your bosses hate you.

[procon]

6. Ho, Spicer wasn't "portrayed as a woman on Saturday Night Live".

A woman was caste to act in a satirical role, a woman played the part of Spicer in a skit that lampooned his behavior, and she was damn good at it, too. After the initial astonishment of who was playing the seething and bumbling Sean Spicer, I didn't see a woman, just the character she was portraying.

Like any good actor, Melissa McCarthy, owned the character she portrayed and the audience did not see the woman, they saw the cartoonishly inept Sean Spicer. Not many actors can live the parts they play, Meryl Streep is an example, and like McCarthy, the audience is absorbed by the roles they play rather than the actor who plays the part.

[Achilleaze]

7. More FAIL from the draft-dodging Republican Loser-in-Chief

sad

[LuvLoogie]

8. Spicer was not portrayed AS a woman, but BY a woman.

[nikibatts]

9. Poor Spicer. He has little good Presidential actions to defend. Garbage in. Garbage out.

If he had an ounce of self-respect he would resign and sue Trump for ruining his reputation and harming his ability to get future jobs.