Outgoing White House press secretary Sean Spicer on Friday night ripped “Saturday Night Live’s” depiction of his brief tenure, describing the parodies as “stupid, or silly, or malicious.”
“I think that there were parts of it that were funny, but there’s a lot of it that was over the line,” Spicer told Fox News’ Sean Hannity in an interview set to be shown Friday at 10 p.m. “It wasn’t funny. It was stupid, or silly, or malicious.”
The White House announced Spicer’s resignation Friday, a move that came the same day that Wall Street financier and President Trump loyalist Anthony Scaramucci was named communications director.
Spicer acknowledged that he did “crack up” sometimes at comedian Melissa McCarthy’s mocking of him as a persistent, hot-headed defender of Trump. McCarthy has been nominated for an Emmy Award for her performance.
“There were some skits on late-night television that I did crack up at,” Spicer said. “So sometimes it can be funny. Some of the memes you have to crack up about. But sometimes it goes from funny to mean.”
In the interview with Hannity, Spicer said he resigned because he “didn’t want too many cooks in the kitchen.”
He said Trump did not want him to resign.
Sarah Sanders, who served as deputy principal press secretary, will replace Spicer, the White House said Friday.
Trump “wanted to bring some new folks in to help rev up the communications operation, and after reflection, my decision was to recommend to the president that I give Anthony and Sarah a clean slate to start from,” Spicer said. “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. I thanked him for the opportunity, and I’m looking forward to watching Anthony and Sarah do a tremendous job.”
