Sean Spicer says Trump will run for president again in 2024

Spicer: his time as White House press secretary was characterised by false statements and an aggressive attitude toward journalists, as well as a series of gaffes.

Donald Trump’s one-time press secretary, Sean Spicer, said his former boss would run for the presidency again in 2024. “He’s in,” Spicer claimed of Trump’s interest in the race during a recent Washington Examiner interview. Spicer reportedly remarked that Trump’s appetite for the presidential election had been bolstered over the last several months, after watching President Joe Biden’s handling of issues, such as immigration. “A couple of months ago, I wasn’t sure,” Spicer said of a Trump run in the interview. “Now ... there needs to be something that will keep him out.” The Examiner does not state whether Spicer is giving his opinion or whether he has spoken to the former president or has definitive word from his inner circle, or similar information. As Trump’s first White House press secretary, Spicer faced doubts over credibility when he addressed the media, and hence the public, from the podium in televised briefings. He has since claimed that he didn’t “knowingly” lie to the American public. Spicer’s latest claim came amid continued speculation about Trump’s political plans following his decisive loss to Biden in the 2020 election, which officials at local, state and national level called the most secure presidential contest in US history. Mark Meadows, Trump’s former chief of staff, appeared to discuss the former president’s future aspirations in a recent Newsmax interview. “We met with several of our Cabinet members tonight … I’m not authorised to speak on behalf of the president, but I can tell you this ... we wouldn’t be meeting tonight if we weren’t making plans to move forward in a real way, with President Trump at the head of that ticket,” Meadows said. Spicer resigned from his position as White House press secretary in July 2017 following a chaotic six months. His short-lived time behind the briefing room’s podium was characterised by false statements and an aggressive attitude toward journalists, as well as a series of gaffes. Spicer’s rocky tenure began just one day after Trump’s inauguration. He angrily insisted in his first briefing that Trump attracted “the largest audience ever to witness an inauguration, period, both in person and around the globe”, following media reports – bolstered by clear photographic evidence and public transport data – that attendance was weak, especially compared with Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration. Spicer, whose foibles and apparent fibs were impersonated by the comedian Melissa McCarthy on Saturday Night Live, was booted from his first post-politics job – the TV show Dancing With The Stars in fall 2019 – following eight weeks of low scores.