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“Everybody knows Sean Spicer,” says a new biography on a speakers group website for President Donald Trump’s first White House Press Secretary, whose combative style and bizarre lies made him fodder for late night comedy bits.
Now that Spicer is officially done with his White House duties, more than a month after his public resignation, he has signed as a speaker with Worldwide Speakers Group. He lives in Virginia.
“Very excited to announce that I will be working with the amazing & talented team” at WWSG, Spicer tweeted on Tuesday morning.
A previous iteration of his biography on WWSG’s website said that “audiences around the world will benefit from the same candor, wit, and insight that Spicer brought to the White House briefing room,” per Politico. That sentence is no longer included in the biography.
Perhaps that edit took place after recalling that Spicer’s debut at the podium was to attack members of the media for providing accurate information about Trump’s inauguration attendance. Other memorable moments include a favorable comparison to Adolf Hitler and a retreat into the White House bushes to avoid reporters’ questions about Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey.
Despite the high ratings for his on-camera briefings, by the end of his tenure he returned to the podium with less frequency and often under the condition that the briefing be off-camera.
WWSG isn’t saying how much money Spicer will make per speech, instead listing the fee as “Inquire for Details.” His paid debut will be on September 11, when he speaks at investment bank Rodman & Renshaw’s annual conference, Politico reports, adding that he is also going to shop a book and is looking into paid contributor gigs on television. He did, however, turn down a chance to do a two-step on Dancing With The Stars.
“Sean is a lifelong Republican operative who worked his way up through the ranks and whom colleagues know as relentless, quick-witted and good-humored,” his biography states. “Melissa McCarthy’s depiction of his press briefing performances earned him a spot in Saturday Night Live lore, but it was his role as the architect of the Republican National Committee’s PR strategy that earned him a reputation as one of the party’s most effective and hardest-charging strategists and communicators.”
While McCarthy made Politico’s annual list of 50 influential people in D.C. for her impression of the Republican operative, Spicer himself did not make the cut.
According to WWSG, his speech topics include “The Trump Administration: Politics as Unusual,” An Objective Look at the Philosophies, People, and Policies Making the News,” “A Conservative Viewpoint,” and “It’s Called Crisis For A Reason Damn It!”
Rachel Kurzius