Sean Spicer

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An internal power struggle between two senior administration officials who are competing for the role of White House communications director has led aides involved in the decision-making process to consider a third candidate, National Security Council spokesman Michael Anton, sources told the…

On Tuesday, White House communications director Hope Hicks told House investigators her job sometimes requires her to lie and refused to answer questions about her time in the Trump administration. One day later, the longtime Trump aide has announced she is leaving the White House, reportedly in…

White people love Subarus. Google's spy cars have documented the "street view" of much of the United States (and the rest of the world). But what are some applications of all of this data scientists could use? Google's folks decided to analyze the types of cars parked on the street to see if they…

I guess it’s not altogether surprising, given that the most famous political figure to emerge from Rhode Island in modern political history was the notoriously corrupt (and violent) Buddy Cianci, the long-time mayor of the city that I grew up in. But as a member in good standing of the Rhode Island…

What will new White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci do to shake things up in the West Wing? Let’s go to the tape, specifically to Fox News Sunday, where Scaramucci spoke extensively with host Chris Wallace about his plans. Scaramucci listed (in his discursive manner) three actions…

Today on the Kristol Clear podcast, Spicer is out; Scaramucci is in. Bill Kristol talks about the latest White House shakeup.

Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary who became a celebrity in his own right, has resigned, according to multiple reports. Spicer tendered his resignation Friday morning following the hiring of Anthony Scaramucci has communications director.

Two of the most mordant videos from the Trump era were clipped from the real world. In one, the camera zooms on the pained face of Chris Christie as he stands behind Donald Trump, staring into the abyss on the night of Super Tuesday. In the other, Sean Spicer excavates a new low for White House…

Sean Spicer will no longer be taking any questions about the Russian investigation and the former FBI director who was once leading that investigation. That's what the White House press secretary told reporters in a short, off-camera briefing Wednesday, directing reporters to contact President…

If there's a shakeup for the West Wing staff coming, no one has much to say about it. Former campaign aides Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie reportedly met with President Trump Monday at the White House, though whether either will be tapped to official positions in the administration—as opposed…

Today on the Daily Standard podcast, senior editor Mark Hemingway on his story taking apart historian Rick Perlstein's shoddy attack on conservatism, and offers his take on the Sean Spicer "Holocaust Centers" controversy: You don't have to be a Holocaust denier to say something really, really dumb.

There are two related but separate issues regarding House Intelligence committee chairman Devin Nunes's revelation last week that identifying information about associates of the Trump campaign and transition team was collected by and distributed within the intelligence committee.

The top spokesman for President Trump declined to rule out that someone at the White House may have given or alerted the House Intelligence committee chairman about documents revealing intelligence collection involving Trump campaign associates. On Wednesday California congressman Devin Nunes…

The Trump administration has a problem with anonymous sources and the media outlets who run stories based entirely on them. This, in the White House’s view, is how unfair and untrue narratives about the Trump campaign's nefarious connections with Russia persist. "People start taking things as fact…

Amid mixed messaging from the Trump administration, House speaker Paul Ryan was the first major Washington official on Tuesday to announce that the president had asked former national security advisor Michael Flynn for his resignation. Ryan's take, which contradicted White House counselor Kellyanne…

Is the United States "bogged down" in military conflict? That's the phrase President Donald Trump used in a series of tweets Thursday morning responding to a Republican senator who was critical of a recent U.S. military raid in Yemen.

Editor-at-large Bill Kristol discussed Sean Spicer's first press briefing and President Trump's unpresidential first days with Jake Tapper on Monday. Spicer was "disastrous" Saturday and "better" at Monday's first official briefing, Kristol said. The president's conduct, on the other hand, shows no…

White House press secretary Sean Spicer turned heads on Saturday evening when he called reporters to the briefing room and read from a written statement: "This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration—period—both in person and around the globe." Spicer drew intense criticism because…

The WEEKLY STANDARD Podcast with senior writer Mark Hemingway on the state of the fourth estate in the first days of the Trump presidency.

This morning, Jonathan V. Last's article "Trumpism Corrupts: Spicer Edition" was discussed on Morning Joe:

The first official White House press conference is on Monday, but Sean Spicer called a Very Special Presser Saturday evening. Why? He had something he wanted to get off his chest. "[P]hotographs of the inaugural proceedings were intentionally framed in a way, in one particular tweet, to minimize…

President-elect Donald Trump is "troubled" by President Barack Obama's commutation of the sentence of former Army private Chelsea Manning, according to a spokesman.

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