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When Donald Trump first took office in January 2017, nobody knew exactly what to expect from the 45th President, or how to handle his declarations. Eight years down the road, however, the nation knows exactly what it’s getting from the 47th President, and vice versa, as Trump has hit the ground running almost as soon as he finished his inaugural address. As Donald Trump’s first press secretary, Sean Spicer has seen the workings of the Trump Administration from within. Spicer, who now hosts his own podcast on iHeart, appeared on 710 WOR’s Mendte in the Morning program to contrast what Trump is doing differently the second time around, particularly compared to Joe Biden’s approach to leading America.
“You know, if you’re a student of politics,” Spicer told host Larry Mendte, “the thing that I found so fascinating about the past election was, it wasn’t a hypothetical. It wasn’t theoretical, it wasn’t, ‘I will promise you this, my opponent will do that.’ We actually knew, we’d seen Donald Trump for four years, we knew what Joe Biden and Kamala Harris would do. And it was literally like- I don’t know if you’re old enough to remember those Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi taste tests, where you tasted both and you got to make your decision, and I mean that where you don’t get that very often in politics, where people can say, you know what, I’ve tried both, I know which one I want.”
Spicer used the border crisis as Exhibit A for how Biden and Trump have been polar opposites in their approach to government. “For the last four years, the Biden Administration had been saying, ‘We can’t do anything until we change the broken immigration system,’ [yet] look at what Donald Trump has done in the past 48 hours. It’s just amazing, Now, that doesn’t mean, just to be clear, that we don’t need to have Congress reform immigration. There’s two things to do; it’s sort of like, when you’re dealing with an emergency, you sort of put a tarp on the roof, you figure out how to stop the rain from coming in, and then you’ve got to fix the roof when the storm passes. I think that’s what we kind of need to do now.”
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