Sean Spicer Makes Pearl Harbor Blunder Which Will Live In Infamy
Sean Spicer, Donald Trump’s first White House press secretary, marked the 81st anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor Wednesday by mistakenly honoring D-Day.
“Today is Dday,” Spicer wrote on Twitter. “It only lives in infamy if we remember and share the story of sacrifice with the next generation #DDay.”
Sean Spicer's botched tweet.
D-Day celebrates the Allied forces’ invasion of France’s Normandy coast on June 6, 1944, leading to an eventual victory over Nazi Germany. It’s a far cry from Dec. 7, 1941, which is memorialized annually on Dec. 7 as National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day or simply Pearl Harbor Day. President Franklin D. Roosevelt called Dec. 7, 1941, a “date which will live in infamy.”
Spicer deleted his post and apologized for the mix-up. But the man who parroted Trump’s lies about the crowd size at his inauguration and performed in fluorescent green on “Dancing with the Stars” should know the internet never forgets:
Fact check: Wrong. D-Day was June 6, 1944.
Sean Spicer is an idiot. pic.twitter.com/42KxUKOSGk— Will Cox (@WillCoxKY) December 7, 2022
Sean Spicer: My Dday tweet got the largest audience ever to witness a tweet. Period.
— Patrick Roan (@adlaiobie) December 7, 2022
December 7th, 1941. A date which will live in infamy.
December 7th, 2022. A date which Sean Spicer misattributes to D-Day. pic.twitter.com/IhDH7GQGXn— Zaphod Fellabrox (@HIMARS4U) December 7, 2022
Navy Reserve Public Affairs Officer Sean Spicer thought Pearl Harbor day was “Dday.” You know the day of the largest attack on US Naval forces in our history. https://t.co/eN5ueWrGgW
— Fred Wellman (@FPWellman) December 7, 2022
Soo not only did Sean Spicer think that December 7th was D-Day, he also apparently thinks that D-Day is a day which will live in Infamy?? - well I'm sure the Nazis thought so... https://t.co/J9CdyZV5ns
— Phillydude (@Fairwinds10) December 7, 2022
Sean Spicer, yes that Sean Spicer @seanspicer who is now the host of Spicer And Company on Newsmax, thought today was "Dday."
The radicalized Republican Party mocks America at every opportunity. pic.twitter.com/vnQ78Une3L— Steven J. Frisch (@stevenjfrisch) December 7, 2022
Trump really did hire the absolute dumbest people.
— BigHornStew (@BigHornStew) December 7, 2022