# @seanmspicer on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/COLg46agFJK
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/13321196-seanmspicer-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2021-04-27T18:44:01.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Sean Spicer (@seanmspicer) — https://gondola.cc/seanmspicer

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4 years ago we had Take your Kids to Work Day at the White House, of course because it was the Trump White House it came w criticism from the press. I shared the below story in #TheBriefing:
 
	April 27 was the annual Take Our Daughters & Sons to Work Day. We had identified that date as an opportunity to invite the children of the press corps to join their parents at work & go behind the scenes at the White House. We thought it would be a way to strengthen relationships with members of the media. Deputy Press Secretary Lindsay Walters spearheaded a fantastic event complete with commemorative media credentials for the children, a tour of the White House & the EEOB, meetings with members of the admin, & a mock press briefing in which the kids could ask their own probing questions. Many of the children came well-prepared with substantive policy questions. They sat in the briefing room’s blue chairs, & I stood at the podium providing answers. We had a lighthearted, fun exchange. 
	In the early afternoon, we took the children into the Rose Garden where the president & vice president greeted them. President Trump & VP Pence posed for pictures with the children & signed their media credentials. 
	Unfortunately, no good deed goes unpunished. In the middle of this children’s event, the ABC News team whipped out a camera & took advantage of the situation, asking the president a series of questions. 
	When word got out that ABC had used the children’s event to interview the president, I was suddenly on the wrong side of every other reporter. Why had I allowed ABC to have access that no other media outlet had? How could ABC get something they didn’t have? Other outlets whose correspondents did not have children attending the event said it wasn’t fair to them. Meanwhile, the president asked how this could have happened. I tried to explain to both the president & members of the press corps that it wasn’t supposed to have happened; … What had been meant as an olive branch to the press corps had been trampled on by ABC—& yet not a single person in the press corps or the White House Correspondents’ Association criticized the network for its action.

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