Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer has words of praise for Sarah Sanders, his successor on the podium, and says she has figured out how to please President Trump in the job in a way he struggled to do.
“I think Sarah has done a great job of making sure that she understands what the president wants,” Spicer told NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly in an interview on Wednesday in advance of next week’s release of his book The Briefing: Politics, the Press and the President.
“That was a challenge for me at the beginning. [Trump’s] an unconventional candidate and president. He’s a disrupter, and we were trying to adapt. And I think [Sanders] has done a good job of adapting to what he wants her to do and say and communicate his thoughts,” Spicer said.
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