America entered yet another horrifying realm of the Twilight Zone yesterday evening when Donald Trump‘s former mouthpiece Sean Spicer made his debut on Dancing With The Stars.
In his video introduction, Spicer, who now works for a pro-Trump super-PAC, said, “There’s no question my time in the White House was very tumultuous. I think it gave people a very one-dimensional look at who I am as a person.”
He then busted out on stage in an ill-fitting neon green blouse and baggy white pants and danced the salsa to the Spice Girls’ “Spice Up Your Life,” for which he earned an embarrassingly low score of 12 out of 30.
Clearly unhappy with the score, Spicer took to Twitter afterwards to suggest that he is being punished by the judges for his Christian faith, tweeting: “Clearly the judges aren’t going to be with me. Let’s send a message to #Hollywood that those of us who stand for #Christ won’t be discounted.”
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But Hemant Mehta over at the Friendly Atheist notes that DWTS has featured plenty of conservative Christians in the past, including Tucker Carlson, Rick Perry, Tom DeLay, and Bristol Palin, and reminds everyone that Jesus didn’t die on the cross so that Sean Spicer could dance without ridicule on network television.
“At least give Spicer credit for one thing,” Mehta writes, “We now have a new reason to reject Christianity.”
And now, the tweets…
This is what life is now. #DWTS @seanspicer pic.twitter.com/heFCEwfjfT
— Matt Wilstein (@mattwilstein) September 17, 2019
As a Christian minister, Mr. Spicer, I am sickened by this attempt to drag Jesus into your pit. People do not oppose you b/c you follow Christ. People oppose you b/c you gave voice to a president who governs w/o morality. I see little Christian in Mr. Trump’s policies.
— Rev. Dr. Chuck Currie (@RevChuckCurrie) September 17, 2019
With Sean Spicer back in the news today, a flashback to the moment when it became clear that the Trump administration was going to be the stuff of dystopian novels pic.twitter.com/in80iC7OQ1
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 17, 2019
I refuse to watch Sean Spicer's stupid dance. A nazi in a flamenco shirt is still a nazi
— Kari Bentley-Quinn (@KBQWrites) September 17, 2019
It’s possible Jesus has not taken the wheel here. pic.twitter.com/NPc20u3ZMB
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) September 17, 2019
"The thing I want from Sean Spicer is more visible jiggling" — no one ever
— Anand Giridharadas (@AnandWrites) September 17, 2019
sean spicer looks like what would happen if you put a fascist in a lime green shirt pic.twitter.com/TU3vWw3wKk
— ?alicia? (@trgrrl) September 17, 2019
This whole thing with Sean Spicer isn't cute. Fuck the people promoting and normalizing him.
— Fannie Wolfe ? (@fanniesroom) September 17, 2019
Because I know ALL of you want to hear my take about Sean Spicer:
I love bad dancing and corny costumes as much as anybody, but the joke is on us. pic.twitter.com/xMei1fiJ2H
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) September 17, 2019
You’re on this show because you stood up for a serial adulterer and lied endlessly for him in exchange for pay and power.
Christ had nothing to do with it.
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) September 17, 2019
Who did it better??? ????#SeanSpicer pic.twitter.com/0SxgpLUSny
— Hear Me Roar (@Stop_Trump20) September 17, 2019
FFS, I did not, and do not watch DWTS, but I saw the clips this am – all Sean Spicer needs is a pineapple on his head, and Trump will mistake him for Carmen Miranda and try to deport him.
— Howard (@HowardA_Esq) September 17, 2019
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Bob LaBlah
Barry I must congratulate you. No matter how obvious your post has to be to the queerty censors by now you get yours thru but mine go into moderation before the five minute countdown begins. Amazing but hey, I get the hint. I get what I pay for.
GentlemanCaller
Because, really, nothing says “conservative christian” more than prancing around in dayglo ruffles, shaking your booty against the rhythm while a scantily-clad young woman cavorts around you. What an idiot: he didn’t get low scores because of his stupid faith, he got low scores because he’s a terrible human being, a shameless liar, a toadying sycophant, and a bad dancer.
jw8890
What an idiot: he didn’t get low scores because of his stupid faith, he got low scores because he’s a terrible human being, a shameless liar, a toadying sycophant, and a bad dancer.
The only thing there he should’ve gotten a low score for was dancing none of the other stuff should’ve even mattered. This show isn’t about who’s the best dancer and never will be, if it was Juan Pablo would’ve won last season and that cheap floozy Hannah Brown certainly wouldn’t have gotten that high of a score last night.
linniejr
I don’t watch DWTS period, however, because the clip was played over and over on various news shows, I got a chance to see his performance, and yes you are right, he was an awful dancer. I think his score of 12 was being nice.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
I own a neon sign company and am seeking legal counsel towards initiating a lawsuit for her outfit and spasmatic actions in said outfit causing irrefutable damage to my business…
Rex Huskey
shut up you fool
Curtispsf
Oh, why don’t YOU stop barking Mr. Husky Dog. Isn’t there a sled somewhere in Alaska that needs to be pulled?
Paco
Getting low scores for bad dancing on a television show is now anti-Christian?
I’m not really surprised that a member from the cult of Trump (formerly known as Christian Evangelicals) would turn it into an attack on his faith.
Just like his former job of lying for Trump, the show gave him another opportunity to make a fool of himself, and he jumped at it willingly.
NateOcean
The judges were not anti-Christian.
After watching Spicer’s performance, several of the judges were heard muttering under their breath, “Jesus F-ing Christ”.
Heywood Jablowme
Obviously this “low score” is FAKE NEWS from the lamestream media! Sean got the highest score ever, PERIOD!
ShiningSex
Sean Spicer and the Trumptards are pretty lame.
Billysees
Good way of putting it.
Heywood Jablowme
I forgot, though, that Sean probably just didn’t PRAY enough to win the dance competition.
That’s how it works in football, I know. Whoever prays the hardest wins the game, because God loves a winner!
Curtispsf
WORD !
Cam
These right wing bigots really have playing victim down to a science.
Just an add-on. The Bible says “Do not Lie”. It does not say “Thou shalst wear a flamenco outfit and dance on TV
ShiningSex
He’s just an awful person. End of discussion.
ShiningSex
AWFUL OUTFITS AND HIDEOUS MUSIC SAYS IT ALL.
Grrrowler
Like all conservatives, nothing is his fault. His terrible dancing could never be the cause of getting a low score in a dance competition. It, of course, must be something else and nothing gets the conservatives frothing at the mouth like telling them that one of their own is being religiously persecuted. They do love a martyr.
paul dorian lord fredine
maybe he’d do better on ‘the masked singer’. he could at least wear a mask and they wouldn’t know who he is.
alanb32244
Sean, perhaps a bit further down Christ’s list of wars, rapes, bigotry, and your terrible rhythm, you will find “Sean winning DWTS.”
Invader7
No Sean- you got a low score because you’re NOT a good dancer. And your typical ,whiny, poor ole me standard response is because you’re a “christian”. You’re just a SORE loser . Get over yourself and slink back into the hole of a has been -where you belong.
KerryB
No, Jesus thinks you’re an asshole too.
ingyaom
Now I know what a muffin-top is.
joelk57
Sean, the only answer here is you simply are a bad dancer. And after witnessing the atrocity you called dancing I am deeply disturbed that you would attempt in any way to pull religion into the mix. I feel certain any Christian, that was watching this train wreck clutched their bible and prayed for the ugliness to cease.
You Sir are a talentless human on many levels and one of those is dance we have been assured now.
sanfranca1
1. Sean, you’re not a Christian. True Christians don’t lie as you did, constantly, when you were at the White House.
2. You’re not a good dancer.
Tombear
His performance was hilarious. The husband and I laughed so hard. We kept comparing him to the big Cheeto. Can you imagine the Cheeto and Spicer in a dance competition? It would be as hilarious as The Golden Girls dance marathon! I’m laughing as I write this.
Toofie
Lol! This guy. Sean’s numbers were low because he’s a terrible dancer. That is all.
Tombear
Hey think about it. A gay man could of pulled off wearing that neon blouse, no problem. Spicer is definitely NOT gay, thank you Jesus!
Bob LaBlah
He looks like a typical successful well to do but can’t dance white guy who went out on the town one night to shake his booty with his wife (note how old she is to hold down the controversy). Now if he wanted to really shock people he would have pulled a Pat Boone number (remember the leather bar outfit he wore on that award show?).
Cam
Obviously the wardrobe people don’t like his politics.
MacAdvisor
Not to sound bigoted here, but, wow, does he dance like a straight white guy: flat-footed, no musicality, face displaying pain. His face made him seem to be running the gauntlet rather than dancing.
Rex Huskey
I though you queens on here would go ga ga with this bear
Giuseppe
He knowingly LIED to the American people multiple times a week, just how does that square with the bible and his Christian faith?? SO sick if these talentless fools that when they’re rightfully criticized, their first defense is crying that it’s about people not being tolerant of them being a Christian.
GO AWAY!!
sfhairy
Damn it, that shirt is sold out everywhere! Even Macy’s 90% off sale!
Rex Huskey
he’s an attention wh*re… like his ex-boss
Curtispsf
You lost. Sean, because NO ONE wants to see lime Jello dancing. And bringing Jesus into the mix? Hell, IF Jesus saw you dance, he would have come down off the cross to bitch slap you into Armageddon.