It’s worth mentioning here that both Spicer and Bolling look and sound as if they are several drinks into the evening. (It is an after-party, after all.) Unprovably so — the outlets that reported on the exchange opted to hang quotation marks around the word “drunk” — but there is a lot of slurring, swaying, grappling with each other’s arms. “You have the biggest heart of anyone I know,” Bolling says. “But don’t tell me you were agnostic at the R.N.C.” Spicer served as the Republican National Committee’s communications director during the 2016 election. “You guys told Trump not to run!”
There’s a faint Central Committee vibe to the scene: the weaponized booziness, the grinning onlookers in business attire and MAGA hats, the edge to Bolling’s I-love-you-man bonhomie. “That’s not true!” Spicer protests before commencing the requisite self-criticism. “Here’s my point — you had a previous guest, Katrina Pierson.” Pierson, a Tea Party activist turned Trump TV surrogate and 2020 campaign adviser, had been sitting in Spicer’s seat moments earlier. “My point is, she was with him from the beginning. I didn’t. I, like — my point is, I am agnostic. I wanted to win and beat Hillary. Katrina Pierson, who was on here just before I am, before I ever was there” — there’s some cross-talk here, some protestations, some more laying on of hands — “hold on, just stop, listen to me! She was with him when no one was with him.”
Even a year and a half into his private life, Spicer remains a mere disciple laboring in the shadow of apostles, struggling to convince them of his dedication and worth, an effort that somehow always ends in his further humiliation. After Spicer’s ship-burning first news conference, Trump reportedly complained to an aide about his suit. When, the following month, Spicer gathered his communications team and told them that White House lawyers were going to search their phones to find who had been leaking to Politico reporters, and the fact that he had done so swiftly leaked (of course) to Politico, Trump castigated him: “Sean, what were you thinking?” (“Of all my experiences with the president,” Spicer wrote in “The Briefing,” his memoir, “that one was the worst.”) Five months later, Trump would hire Anthony Scaramucci as his communications director to do exactly what he had reprimanded Spicer for: “He’s going to find the leakers,” Trump told the West Wing staff, Scaramucci later recounted in a Vanity Fair interview. Spicer, who was in the room, quit the same day, but his attempts to negotiate a dignified exit were kneecapped by gleefully reported whispers (which he hotly denied) that he’d tried to steal a mini-fridge from junior White House staff.
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