‘House of Cards’ Praises Sean Spicer’s Upside Down Flag Pin as ‘Loyalty’

“Don’t make me make the podium move”, Spicer told the room filled with reporters.

Last Saturday, the president, in a series of tweets, said that then-President Barack Obama had Trump’s phones tapped during the 2016 presidential campaign. But that of course doesn’t address the fact that White House officials are supposed to wait an hour before commenting.

In a tweet on Tuesday Trump complained that Russian Federation had “ran over” the United States during the 8 years of the Obama Administration and “picked off Crimea”.

“I was gonna say, your pin’s upside down”, Roberts said helpfully.

The entire flag debacle served as a welcome light moment in an otherwise tense briefing, as Spicer discussed controversial White House topics like health care.

Donald Trump hasn’t been the biggest fan of job reports from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, possibly because he did not want to give credit to President Obama. What a sad state of politics when the punchline of a joke in the White House is how much of a thin-skinned egomaniac the man on top is.

But those commentaries seem to have broken a federal rule that prohibits executive branch employees from publicly commenting on principal economic indicators within one hour of release.

“We didn’t have anything like Twitter to worry about”, said Glenn Hubbard, head of the U.S. Council of Economic Advisers under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2003.

The Economist reported the phrase originated in Turkey in the 1950s in reference to deep state sponsored murders and “engineered riots”, something President Trump has said several times about protests to his presidency.

Spicer and reporters present laughed, though it wasn’t immediately clear whether Trump was joking.