On Monday morning, Donald and Melania Trump hosted the 139th annual White House Easter Egg Roll, and it went down in true Trumpian fashion, as press secretary Sean Spicer worked himself into his usual tangle trying to explain away the noticeably delayed preparation, reportedly low attendance, and now-predictable Trump gaffes.

The White House said in the days leading up to the egg roll that it was expecting a crowd of 21,000, per CNN—sizable, though about 14,000 fewer attendees than the final Obama egg roll hosted in 2016. The New York Daily News, however, reported what appeared to be an even slimmer crowd on the lawn. For much of the morning, there were reportedly no lines for games—from the roll itself to the bag toss and egg hunt.

White House staff claimed that the small crowds were intentional. Spicer told the Daily News that some of the numbers—like those of local students and military—matched those of previous years, but the Obama administration had also ”ratcheted the number up. I think there was a lot of issues with kids being disconnected and families being separated.” So with the size of the crowd creating no problems, the president himself stepped in to make up for it. When the music began for the national anthem, Melania and Barron both raised their hands to their hearts—but Trump needed a nudge from Melania to remember to do so. CNN reporter Daniella Diaz captured the moment on Twitter.

Later, when asked to autograph a child’s “Make America Great Again” hat, he threw it back into the crowd rather than giving it back to its owner. “No!” those nearby shouted as the hat sailed over the kid’s head.

Unlike his predecessor, who memorably read such classics as Where the Wild Things Are during his administration,Trump passed the job of reading to children on to the First Lady and the eternally beleaguered Spicer. The president did, however, join in on some coloring, which he was seen remarking, per Politico, is “the hard part.”

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