Washington Sean Spicer acquired an unlikely defender Tuesday after his colleague, White House adviser Stephen K. Bannon, told a reporter that the reason the press secretary had stopped on-camera briefings was that “Sean has gotten fatter.”
Soon after Atlantic reporter Rosie Gray published her story with Bannon’s (maybe joking?) comment, former first daughter and salty tweeter Chelsea Clinton quickly called out Bannon’s comment as “fat shaming.”
“Oh ok. So using fat shaming to avoid answering questions about increasing opacity,” she tweeted. “Got it. 2017.
When Bannon defenders tried to play down the answer as a joke, Clinton, true to form (she often replies to those who try to bait her on social media), doubled down. To one commenter who attributed her response as the “PR-managed response from the humour-impaired left,” she shot back that this was no vast left-wing conspiracy, to borrow one of her mother’s famous phrases. “Just me as I was standing in line @Starbucks earlier. Fat shaming isn’t a joke I find funny. Ever.”
