# @seanmspicer on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/COOKtaeAheR
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/13321195-seanmspicer-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2021-04-28T19:27:56.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Sean Spicer (@seanmspicer) — https://gondola.cc/seanmspicer

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For President Trump’s first joint address to Congress, I was part of the prep team to get that speech ready. Before the speech, I joined the President as he sat down with TV journalists to preview his speech. More about how that speech came together from #TheBriefing below. What are you expecting from President Biden?

	Of all the high points I witnessed during my White House tenure, the highest was President Trump’s address to the nation before a joint session of Congress. Stephen Miller was the chief architect of that speech, but it was very much a team effort. Everyone reviewed Stephen’s draft, including staff from the Office of Legislative Affairs, the National Security Council, and other key parts of the administration. And we had a brainstorming session about who should sit as guests in the First Lady’s box, to be acknowledged by the president and incorporated into his speech. 
	
	I felt particularly proud to have suggested an early line in the speech that set the bipartisan tone of the evening. But the real game changer was the president himself who took his pen to Stephen’s first draft, rewrote sentences, revised word choices, and inserted new lines and paragraphs. 
	
	Reince, Steve Bannon, Jared, Dina Powell, Hope Hicks, Kellyanne, and I sat with the president in the Map Room on the first floor of the residence and further refined the speech. As the president practiced reading the speech on a teleprompter, he made further edits, and I went to work confirming that we had every fact in the speech nailed down, that we were ready to support each theme the president touched on, and that we had an army of surrogates ready to hit the air the minute the president finished.

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