Krauthammer: Trump Is ‘A Particularly Difficult President’ – But Spicer Would Have Struggled If He Worked for Jefferson

On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” columnist Charles Krauthammer argued that former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer was in over his head and didn’t stand a chance working with a president as difficult as President Trump.

Krauthammer said, “Sean Spicer, we hardly knew ye. I feel sorry for Sean Spicer…I think his problem was he was just way over his head. This is a guy who was not prepared, and for a particularly difficult president. I mean, if he’d had Thomas Jefferson as his president, he would have had a hard time, but with somebody as mercurial and changeable as President Trump, I think he had no chance at all. It began really badly with the first event, which was trying to pretend that the crowds at the inaugural, which was a trivial issue, were the largest ever in history, which they weren’t. And he did it angrily. And then it got worse where — I mean, he actually referred to concentration camps as ‘Holocaust centers.’ This is a man who should not have been in that position. And I think he’s sort of liberated now. It’s good for him to be somewhere else.”

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