Excuse me Secretary Spicer, what is that delightful pop of color we see on your wrist there? Could it be a tasty piece of kandi? A little reminder to keep Peace Love Unity Respect in your heart as you berate the international press corps for pointing out objective facts?
On Thursday, the eagle eyes of the folks at Mad Decent spotted a multicolored beaded bracelet on the Press Secretary’s wrist and speculated if it was kandi, the plastic accessory of choice for 90s raver kids.
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The bracelet is most recently visible in video from a press briefing on Wednesday, February 22. But it’s not the first time Spicer’s sported the rave gear. Mic pointed out that he wore the bracelet throughout inauguration week, and figured because it said “Dad” on it, that one of his two kids gave it to him. Classic #dad.
But an isolated incident of electronic music affiliation this bracelet is not! Back during the 2014 Grammy’s, a time when the notion of a President Trump was as unthinkable as a world without David Bowie and Prince, then Republican National Committee Director of Communications Spicer tweeted his disappointment in the Grammy’s performance of a band called “Daft Funk.”
Apparently he’s a long time fan (of Daft Punk), yet he still didn’t know that helmets were literally their signature lewk. Maybe he heard “Harder/Better/Faster/Stronger” in the car once taking his kids to school and has been living a lie of Daft Punk fandom to impress them ever since?
Back in 2012, after learning that Paul Ryan was a fan, Rage Against the Machine issued a statement that “Paul Ryan is the embodiment of the machine our music rages against.” Which must have crushed poor Pauly’s 90’s rock-loving soul.
Hopefully, Daft Punk and other electronic music artists to which Sean Spicer is clearly pledging his allegiance with his Dad Kandi will take a leaf out of Morello’s book. The PLUR-tribe could disavow Spicer, embarrassing him in front of his kids, and reaping the fruits of revenge for what our Secretary of the Press is doing to our constitutional freedoms on a daily basis. Maybe then, through the tears that will fall from aspiring cool dad heartbreak, we’ll learn that Spicer and the entire Trump administration are human after all.
