Sean Spicer Responds To ‘Dancing With The Stars’ Backlash

As I mentioned yesterday, Sean Spicer was announced to have joined the contestants on “Dancing with the Stars” this season.

The blue-checkmarked hate IMMEDIATELY swarmed in:

Sean Spicer is CURRENTLY a Sr Advisor to America First PAC, a pro-Trump super PAC. Spicer is CURRENTLY headlining GOP fundraisers. Oh, and he also lied constantly to the American people. ABC and DWTS are basically helping Trump and the GOP raise money. Disgusting. #BoycottDWTS

— Scott Dworkin (@funder) August 21, 2019

You enabled a racist, sexual assaulting White Nationalist, @seanspicer. Dancing while children sit in cages, torn from their families because of policies you championed is vile. Why are you doing this @DancingABC? @RobertIger? You cool with banning Muslims? Are Mexicans rapists? https://t.co/GlDNUEUVl9

— Bradley Whitford (@WhitfordBradley) August 22, 2019

ABC had more than enough time today to replace Sean Spicer. They chose not to. So now, #BoycottDWTS is about to trend. We won’t let you normalize one of the biggest liars in the history of this country. No way. https://t.co/otmY9zD4vK

— Scott Dworkin (@funder) August 21, 2019

The cynicism and carelessness it took to hire Sean Spicer… god it’s all just so depressing honestly.

— billy eichner (@billyeichner) August 21, 2019

Even the show’s host had ‘thoughts’:

Some thoughts about today pic.twitter.com/aCQ4SHrGCI

— Tom Bergeron (@Tom_Bergeron) August 21, 2019

What’s the over/under on him feeling similarly if a member of Obama’s team joined the show?

Yeah. I HIGHLY doubt he’d have the same “thoughts” then.

ABC stands by their decision, however, and has issued a brief statement from executive producer Andrew Llinares: “We’ve got a great and diverse cast. We are excited about the season.”

Sean Spicer has also responded, saying he hopes this experience will be a “politics-free zone.”

“I hope it will be a politics-free zone,” he said. “My hope is that at the end of the season, Tom looks back on this and realizes what a great example it was of being able to bring people of really diverse backgrounds together to have fun with each other, engage in a real civil and respectful way and maybe show millions of Americans how we can get back to that kind of interaction.”

He also mentioned that he and the cast are getting along very well:

“From a cast standpoint, and the pros, we all seemed to hit it off. The criticism wasn’t coming from the cast or the pros — obviously Tom had his opinion — but it’s from the outside. Put it this way: Let’s talk again in November, but not only is it possible, I think it will happen.”

Contestant Karamo Brown, who stars on “Queer Eye,” spoke in defense of his fellow dancer:

“I’m a big believer that if you can talk to someone and meet in the middle, you can learn about each other and help each other both grow.”

Here’s Karamo Brown calling Sean Spicer “a good guy; a really sweet guy” cause what’s morality, really? pic.twitter.com/WQVgfVVkFc

— Ξvan Ross Katz (@evanrosskatz) August 21, 2019

Karamo, of course, is also getting insane amounts of hate.

People are awful.