“Thank you for an opportunity to show you some things," White House press secretary Sean Spicer said. | AP Photo Spicer brings visual aids back to the press briefing

White House press secretary Sean Spicer reintroduced props to his daily briefing Wednesday, this time to make architectural arguments.

Spicer, who infamously began his tenure as press secretary showing pictures of the inauguration crowd size, on Wednesday displayed photos of dilapidated border fencing.


He was responding to a question from a Breitbart reporter, after that organization published a story alleging the White House was attempting to compare a levee wall and fencing at the U.S.-Mexico border to the wall President Donald Trump has long promised to build.

A recent spending deal reached in Congress allows funding for some border security initiatives, but not for building a wall.

“Thank you for an opportunity to show you some things,” Spicer said.

Melissa McCartney skewered Spicer's use of props while playing him on "Saturday Night Live." Unlike his comedic alter ego, Spicer didn't bring squirt guns or dolls, but he did ask for photos to be put up on either side of him.

"You see a place where cars can literally create little things and drive over, you've got places that can get burrowed under, that one they've cut through, that one doesn't seem to be too effective at keeping people in," Spicer said, pointing at photos of weak fencing he said is currently in place. "Now to the next slide."

Then Spicer flipped to photos showing more solid-looking border protections. He said the budget deal would allow the government to replace chain-linked fencing with levee walls or other types of barriers. He said the spending agreement fit Trump's priorities because it funded those improvements.

"There are various types of walls that can be built," Spicer said.

He seemed to know that reporters would not be expecting the roughly 4-minute graphics demonstration. “You had no idea you were getting this, did you?” Spicer asked.