Former White House Press Secretary, Sean Spicer on Friday night said President Donald Trump didn’t want him to resign.
Spicer said the President later understood that it was in the best interest of the administration.
Speaking to Fox News’ Sean Hannity, Spicer said it was his decision to leave and hand over to a new communications team under Anthony Scaramucci, who was named the new White House communications director, and deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who will be taking over the press secretary position.
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“He’s been very gracious throughout this process,” Spicer said of Trump.
“My decision was to recommend to the President that I give Anthony and Sarah a clean slate to start from, so that they can talk about the President’s agenda and help move it forward. And he, after some back and forth, understood that the offer that I was making was something that was in the best interest of the administration.”
On how the media portrayed him, Spicer said he found it amusing but other tines thought it went too far.
“I think that there were parts of it that were funny, but there’s a lot of it that was over the line,” he said.
“It wasn’t funny. It was stupid, or silly, or malicious. But there were some skits on late-night television that I did crack up at. So sometimes it can be funny. Some of the memes you have to crack up about. But sometimes it goes from funny to mean.”
Spicer had less understanding words for the media he dealt with on a daily basis at the White House.
“I was increasingly disappointed in how so many members of the media do their job, or rather don’t do their job,” he said.
“I think there has been more click-bait mentality. They are more interested in the click and their clip than they are the facts.”
Spicer continued: The majority, they are not there for the facts or pursuit of the truth. They are there to get on TV — to be a YouTube star.”
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