When history remembers Sean Spicer’s career, it will undoubtedly focus on his time as President Donald Trump’s confrontational Press Secretary, caught between an administration that has no message discipline and a swath of reporters hell-bent on uncovering Trump’s deep, dark secrets.
But there was once a more innocent time, when Spicer, then an aide to the Bush Administration, serving as the assistant US Trade Representative, had a more conciliatory White House job: as the man in the Easter Bunny suit at the annual White House Easter Egg Roll.
In 2008, he shared a glimpse into his glamorous life as a giant fake rabbit with POLITICO.
Spicer was a long-term appointee to the role, fulfilling Easter Bunny duties for most of President George W. Bush’s second term (word has it that he alternated with another Bush staffer, though Spicer is the best-known Bush Bunny).
Spicer clearly enjoyed his time in the bunny suit, telling Twitter during the Trump campaign that he would give anything to be back in the costume instead of leading the charge to defend the mass of Republican candidates to the media as the communications director for the RNC.
And he clearly took the job seriously. Speaking to the Washington Post in 2013, he gave advice to other potential bunnies, declaring that “early morning is key” because the suit gets hot, sweaty and stinky by the time the sun is overhead.
Questions to the Trump press office as to whether Spicer will reprise his role this year in the Trump White House went unanswered, and probably have Heat Street blacklisted from the press pool for some time.
