Sarah Sanders’ Bizarre Media Moments: Children ‘Prepared’ Her To Deal With Journalists
White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders has had her share of bizarre media moments in the past like her boss President Donald Trump, and Wednesday was no different. In an interview, while mocking the media, she said raising her children has helped her prepare for dealing with the journalists.
"They perfectly prepared me to deal with the White House press corps," Huckabee Sanders said on the American talk show, "The View," produced by ABC. "I get to answer the same question all day long, and I've gotten pretty good at saying 'no.' So, I think my kids have been a perfect foundation for my job."
The show also saw heated arguments between Huckabee Sanders and the panelists when she was asked about Trump's statements being factually incorrect. Comedian and actress Joy Behar referred to a PolitiFact report that found 95 percent of the president's statements were less than completely true. At one point, during the discussion, Huckabee Sanders went into a defensive mode as she told the hosts of the show that media should be more responsible while presenting facts. Huckabee Sanders' reply came when she was asked about the "fake news" which the president often talks about.
After the interview, Twitter was flooded with funny reactions.
This is not the first time that Huckabee Sanders' remarks have not been received well by the journalists or social media users. In a press briefing this week about the dismantling of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, she accidentally referred to Trump as "President Obama."
"While the DACA program was challenged by states in the same court that struck down another of the previous administration's unlawful immigration orders earlier this year, President Obama is laying out a responsible 24-month phase-out — sorry, President Trump," she said. Huckabee Sanders was quickly corrected by reporters, but she almost made the same mistake the second time as well. Many Twitter users took a jibe at Huckabee Sanders and posted funny reactions on social media.
In July, Huckabee Sanders had started one of her press briefings by poking fun at former White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci, a report said. "Now I know Anthony is probably a little bit disappointed that he is not up here today," Sanders said. "But since he did some TV this morning he was able to go ahead and get his hair and makeup done. So I think he'll be OK."
Huckabee Sanders' comment came after Scaramucci told in a CNN interview that she should ensure that the hair and makeup person who served them prior to Friday's press briefing should continue to do so. "I want to do everything I can to make her better at that podium," Scaramucci said of Sanders.
In June, when Trump attacked MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski over an alleged plastic surgery procedure in a tweet, Huckabee Sanders tried to defend the president during the daily press briefing. She said: "I think the American people elected somebody who’s tough, who’s smart and who’s a fighter...I don’t think that it’s a surprise to anybody that he fights fire with fire.”
"He’s not going to sit back and be attacked by the liberal media (and) Hollywood elites," she added.
In an interview in May with the hosts of "Morning Joe," Huckabee Sanders targeted Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski over Trump's firing of FBI Director James Comey. She was asked by MSNBC's Willie Geist to elaborate on her remark that the investigation into allegations that members of the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to influence the election has become "absurd." Huckabee Sanders replied: "I know that person after person, including your own Joe Scarborough, has said that there is no evidence of collusion here."
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