Donald Trump has announced that he is naming Sean Spicer his White House Press Secretary.

Spicer, 45, has recently emerged as the spokesman for the transition team’s regular press-phone briefings. He recently told Fox News’ Megyn Kelly that briefings would continue under a President Trump, but not in the format they’re used to – in front of millions of TV viewers.

“Well, I think we have to look at everything. And so I don’t know that it needs to be daily. I don’t know that they all need to be on camera,” Spicer told Kelly. “And I think that’s a view shared by a lot of former White House press secretaries, a view by some in the media, in fact, that the White House press briefings have become somewhat of a spectacle.”

Spicer often engages with feisty battles with reporters. The U.S. Naval Reserve Commander is expected to be a feisty press secretary in the mold of Nixon’s Ron Ziegler or George W. Bush’s Ari Fleischer, NewsMax reports.

During the Republican nomination fight, RNC spokesman Spicer voiced the party’s criticism of Trump’s controversial statements regarding illegal immigrants and remarks about John McCain’s service in Vietnam. But after Trump became the nominee and worked closely with the RNC, Spicer emerged as his main spokesman and “attack dog” with hostile reporters.

Joining Spicer on the daily briefings from the transition is fellow spokesman Jason Miller. White House reporters expect Miller, formerly a top strategist for Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, will be named deputy press secretary.





