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welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
Sean Spicer blunders
before we begin we publish new videos
every day so be sure to subscribe for
more great content for this list we’re
looking at political gas that President
Donald Trump’s press secretary is made
during his first six months in office
whether it was inside the White House
press briefing room outside of it or
online number 10 cents or wall so is it
a wall or is it a fence more importantly
is it the border wall that Donald Trump
promised you would build during his
campaign for president we’re going to
build the wall we have no choice that’s
what reporters wanted to know when
Spicer presented them with pictures of
various security perimeter enhancements
Congress had just approved for the US
border with Mexico in May 2017 are those
photos offensive or wall instead of
answering the questions the White House
press secretary got quite
confrontational and kept repeating the
official names of the various structures
what I’m telling anybody is that the
president said he was going to build a
wall and he’s doing it sticking to the
talking points is one thing but
sometimes a simple yes-or-no answer will
do number 9 bathrobe when the New York
Times published interviews with
anonymous White House sources claiming
President Trump spent a good deal of
time walking around his official
residence in a bathrobe Weiser didn’t
just deny the report he denied the
existence of a bathrobe in Trump’s
wardrobe and asserted he wouldn’t even
wear one start at the top I don’t think
the president owns a bathrobe definitely
doesn’t wear one not only was this a
claim that is true would mean the
president lacks an item of clothing that
most people own it also turned out to be
a rather easy assertion to disprove
given the fact that Donald Trump had
been pictured lounging around in a
bathrobe more than once albeit before he
was president number 8 the green tie if
you’re a public figure that’s frequently
the subject of Internet mockery it’s
probably a good idea to avoid wearing
clothing on TV that’s easy for anyone
with technical knowledge to green-screen
Sean Spicer made that
error in March 2017 when in an attempt
to celebrate st. Patrick’s Day he wore a
bright green tie to a press briefing the
response from the internet was as Swift
as it was hilarious
this is one time when Spicer drew laughs
that had nothing to do with what he was
saying
number seven Joe Trudeau Justin Trudeau
may try to come across as an average Joe
but that’s not his name someone should
have told Spicer what it really was so
that he could avoid this press mishap in
February of 2017
because following the Canadian Prime
Minister’s visits to Washington that
winter the press secretary referred to
him as Joe Trudeau yesterday the
President had a incredibly productive
set of meetings and discussions with
Prime Minister Trudeau you could cut
Spicer a little slack if he had
mispronounced a foreign name he wasn’t
used to or even the PM’s French last
name for that matter but Justin is
pretty much as simple and common as an
English named guest number six the
upside-down US flag flying the American
flag upside down is recognized as a
symbol of distress on a ship it’s the
equivalent of sending out an SOS message
while there are no hard and fast rules
about whether it holds the same
significance on a person’s jacket Sean
Spicer gave us reason to think about it
when he wore his American flag lapel pin
upside down during a March 2017 press
briefing
while it clearly was an error on
Spicer’s part people can still have fun
implying that he was secretly trying to
convey that the Trump administration was
in some sort of distress
yeah a Wall Street Journal are you okay
or that he was a raging fan of house of
cards number five
talking terrorism anti-muslim sentiments
in the administration has the president
forceful about that particular issue
when reporters asked Spicer what
President Trump was doing to fight
attacks against Muslims in the u.s. in
February 2017
he didn’t dodge the question instead he
answered a completely different question
that he wasn’t asked what the president
was doing to fight terrorists attacks by
Muslims I think that the president in
terms of his desire to combat radical
Islamic terrorism it’s possible Spicer
just didn’t care the question properly
plus some contended that it was
unfortunately telling that when asked
about a Muslim issue he seemingly
assumed it was a question about Islamic
terrorism number four phone hacking
reporters and pundits usually get their
talking points from administration
spokespeople with Spicer sometimes this
is reversed to back up president Trump’s
claim that former President Barack Obama
had wiretap
Trump Tower i sir didn’t cite any
intelligence official who would have
been obliged to report any knowledge of
phone hacking to the new administration
in March 2017
instead he quoted Fox News pundit and
judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano claim
that Obama got British intelligence to
do his dirty work on Fox News on March
14th Judge Andrew Napolitano made the
following statement quote three
intelligence sources have been formed
Fox News the President Obama went
outside the chain of command this claim
was later rejected by Fox News itself as
you can imagine in the briefing room
this led to one of Spicer’s more heated
exchanges with the media number three
hiding in the bushes I’m pretty sure I
can see him hiding in those bushes
traditionally press secretaries dodge
reporters questions with deflection or
clever language slicer on the other hand
sometimes chooses to dodge the reporters
altogether when President Trump fired
FBI director James Comey who had been
investigating his administration for
ties with Russia are you angry really
angry with mr. Comey because of his
Russia investigation I just want
somebody who’s competent a group of
reporters outside the White House tried
to get a comment from Spicer instead of
answering the press secretary hid from
them in what was first reported as quote
in the bushes
The Washington Post later clarified his
location as being among the bushes a
distinction lost on the late-night
comedians who took on the story
regardless of where exactly he was the
fact that he momentarily disappeared
immediately after the news broke is the
real gas so he wasn’t hiding in the
bushes okay
he was hiding among the bushes okay
number two Hitler and chemical weapons
it’s generally not a good idea to bring
Hitler into a political debate I use
comparison to Hitler to win arguments on
the Internet at the drop of a hat
but if you do you need to have your
facts straight Sean Spicer learned that
lesson the hard way when talking about
Syrian President Bashar al-assad in
April 2017 the press secretary said that
even Hitler never used chemical weapons
someone is despicable as Hitler who
didn’t even sink to the two using
chemical weapons
despite their actual why Youth in Nazi
gas chambers when a journalist gave
Spicer a chance to walk his statements
back he dug himself a deeper hole by
calling concentration camps Holocaust
centers he brought him into the – to the
Holocaust Center I understand that after
numerous groups including the Anne Frank
Center for mutual respect called for
aspiring vice are issued a rare apology
before we unveil our number one pick
here are some honorable mentions
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and then obviously there’s been
discussion of Paul Manafort who played a
very limited role for a very limited
amount of time but beyond hey Jonathan
Flint you can you stop interrupting
other people’s questions number one
inauguration crowd sizes this is one
Trump official who really hit the ground
running or rather stumbling in
spectacular fashion in Spicer’s very
first encounter with the press there
were no questions allowed instead there
was just a fiery statement blasting the
media for their reporting on
inauguration crowd numbers culminating
in the over-the-top assertion that this
was the largest crowd to witness an
inauguration period this was the largest
audience to ever witness an inauguration
period both in person and around the
globe this is what prompted another
Trump staffer Kellyanne Conway to coin
the term alternative facts in defense of
what Spicer had said and it was the
moment that the legend of spicy was born
do you agree with our picks check out
these other great clips from WatchMojo
and subscribe for new videos every day
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them on Saturday Night Live but the real
deal gives us plenty to laugh about –
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
Sean Spicer blunders
before we begin we publish new videos
every day so be sure to subscribe for
more great content for this list we’re
looking at political gas that President
Donald Trump’s press secretary is made
during his first six months in office
whether it was inside the White House
press briefing room outside of it or
online number 10 cents or wall so is it
a wall or is it a fence more importantly
is it the border wall that Donald Trump
promised you would build during his
campaign for president we’re going to
build the wall we have no choice that’s
what reporters wanted to know when
Spicer presented them with pictures of
various security perimeter enhancements
Congress had just approved for the US
border with Mexico in May 2017 are those
photos offensive or wall instead of
answering the questions the White House
press secretary got quite
confrontational and kept repeating the
official names of the various structures
what I’m telling anybody is that the
president said he was going to build a
wall and he’s doing it sticking to the
talking points is one thing but
sometimes a simple yes-or-no answer will
do number 9 bathrobe when the New York
Times published interviews with
anonymous White House sources claiming
President Trump spent a good deal of
time walking around his official
residence in a bathrobe Weiser didn’t
just deny the report he denied the
existence of a bathrobe in Trump’s
wardrobe and asserted he wouldn’t even
wear one start at the top I don’t think
the president owns a bathrobe definitely
doesn’t wear one not only was this a
claim that is true would mean the
president lacks an item of clothing that
most people own it also turned out to be
a rather easy assertion to disprove
given the fact that Donald Trump had
been pictured lounging around in a
bathrobe more than once albeit before he
was president number 8 the green tie if
you’re a public figure that’s frequently
the subject of Internet mockery it’s
probably a good idea to avoid wearing
clothing on TV that’s easy for anyone
with technical knowledge to green-screen
Sean Spicer made that
error in March 2017 when in an attempt
to celebrate st. Patrick’s Day he wore a
bright green tie to a press briefing the
response from the internet was as Swift
as it was hilarious
this is one time when Spicer drew laughs
that had nothing to do with what he was
saying
number seven Joe Trudeau Justin Trudeau
may try to come across as an average Joe
but that’s not his name someone should
have told Spicer what it really was so
that he could avoid this press mishap in
February of 2017
because following the Canadian Prime
Minister’s visits to Washington that
winter the press secretary referred to
him as Joe Trudeau yesterday the
President had a incredibly productive
set of meetings and discussions with
Prime Minister Trudeau you could cut
Spicer a little slack if he had
mispronounced a foreign name he wasn’t
used to or even the PM’s French last
name for that matter but Justin is
pretty much as simple and common as an
English named guest number six the
upside-down US flag flying the American
flag upside down is recognized as a
symbol of distress on a ship it’s the
equivalent of sending out an SOS message
while there are no hard and fast rules
about whether it holds the same
significance on a person’s jacket Sean
Spicer gave us reason to think about it
when he wore his American flag lapel pin
upside down during a March 2017 press
briefing
while it clearly was an error on
Spicer’s part people can still have fun
implying that he was secretly trying to
convey that the Trump administration was
in some sort of distress
yeah a Wall Street Journal are you okay
or that he was a raging fan of house of
cards number five
talking terrorism anti-muslim sentiments
in the administration has the president
forceful about that particular issue
when reporters asked Spicer what
President Trump was doing to fight
attacks against Muslims in the u.s. in
February 2017
he didn’t dodge the question instead he
answered a completely different question
that he wasn’t asked what the president
was doing to fight terrorists attacks by
Muslims I think that the president in
terms of his desire to combat radical
Islamic terrorism it’s possible Spicer
just didn’t care the question properly
plus some contended that it was
unfortunately telling that when asked
about a Muslim issue he seemingly
assumed it was a question about Islamic
terrorism number four phone hacking
reporters and pundits usually get their
talking points from administration
spokespeople with Spicer sometimes this
is reversed to back up president Trump’s
claim that former President Barack Obama
had wiretap
Trump Tower i sir didn’t cite any
intelligence official who would have
been obliged to report any knowledge of
phone hacking to the new administration
in March 2017
instead he quoted Fox News pundit and
judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano claim
that Obama got British intelligence to
do his dirty work on Fox News on March
14th Judge Andrew Napolitano made the
following statement quote three
intelligence sources have been formed
Fox News the President Obama went
outside the chain of command this claim
was later rejected by Fox News itself as
you can imagine in the briefing room
this led to one of Spicer’s more heated
exchanges with the media number three
hiding in the bushes I’m pretty sure I
can see him hiding in those bushes
traditionally press secretaries dodge
reporters questions with deflection or
clever language slicer on the other hand
sometimes chooses to dodge the reporters
altogether when President Trump fired
FBI director James Comey who had been
investigating his administration for
ties with Russia are you angry really
angry with mr. Comey because of his
Russia investigation I just want
somebody who’s competent a group of
reporters outside the White House tried
to get a comment from Spicer instead of
answering the press secretary hid from
them in what was first reported as quote
in the bushes
The Washington Post later clarified his
location as being among the bushes a
distinction lost on the late-night
comedians who took on the story
regardless of where exactly he was the
fact that he momentarily disappeared
immediately after the news broke is the
real gas so he wasn’t hiding in the
bushes okay
he was hiding among the bushes okay
number two Hitler and chemical weapons
it’s generally not a good idea to bring
Hitler into a political debate I use
comparison to Hitler to win arguments on
the Internet at the drop of a hat
but if you do you need to have your
facts straight Sean Spicer learned that
lesson the hard way when talking about
Syrian President Bashar al-assad in
April 2017 the press secretary said that
even Hitler never used chemical weapons
someone is despicable as Hitler who
didn’t even sink to the two using
chemical weapons
despite their actual why Youth in Nazi
gas chambers when a journalist gave
Spicer a chance to walk his statements
back he dug himself a deeper hole by
calling concentration camps Holocaust
centers he brought him into the – to the
Holocaust Center I understand that after
numerous groups including the Anne Frank
Center for mutual respect called for
aspiring vice are issued a rare apology
before we unveil our number one pick
here are some honorable mentions
[Music]
and then obviously there’s been
discussion of Paul Manafort who played a
very limited role for a very limited
amount of time but beyond hey Jonathan
Flint you can you stop interrupting
other people’s questions number one
inauguration crowd sizes this is one
Trump official who really hit the ground
running or rather stumbling in
spectacular fashion in Spicer’s very
first encounter with the press there
were no questions allowed instead there
was just a fiery statement blasting the
media for their reporting on
inauguration crowd numbers culminating
in the over-the-top assertion that this
was the largest crowd to witness an
inauguration period this was the largest
audience to ever witness an inauguration
period both in person and around the
globe this is what prompted another
Trump staffer Kellyanne Conway to coin
the term alternative facts in defense of
what Spicer had said and it was the
moment that the legend of spicy was born
do you agree with our picks check out
these other great clips from WatchMojo
and subscribe for new videos every day
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