Sean Spicer, former White House press secretary under former President Donald Trump, will be appearing on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Saturday Talk about the newly released documentary series Trump’s front row JoesThe series documents Trump’s most ardent supporters, who sit in the front rows of the crowd at nearly all of his rallies.
Spicer spoke with Breitbart News Washington Bureau Chief Matthew Boyle about the motivation behind the two-part documentary series, which is now available to rent or buy. SalemnauSpicer said he realized someone needed to document this in history.
He noted that “the media has ignored” and “ridiculed” the Trump supporters who attend every, or nearly every, rally, arriving days early to secure a spot at the front of the line. The former White House press secretary added that these people “have been pillars of the MAGA movement.”
“The media has ignored them and mocked them. Hillary called them deplorables. So I sat down with some of my campaign colleagues and decided to make a documentary for history to remember,” Spicer said.
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The series features interviews with “Front Row Joes,” including President Trump, former chief strategist Steve Bannon, and Rep. Majorie Taylor Greene of Georgia. The Sean Spicer Show It will be on all major platforms from Monday to Friday and said the documentary production team followed the group for two years.
“We visited their homes, we went to their rallies with them,” Spicer recalled, “and we talked to them about why they were doing it, what the future holds for the movement, what their families think about this, how much money they’re spending — some of them spend $50,000 a year following Trump around the country.”
Boyle told Spicer that Trump’s plans to attend the rally could be far-reaching depending on how early they are announced.
“And they do have to travel to these locations, but to get there and have a front row seat at all of them, I mean, they have to get there really early, right?” Boyle asked.
Spicer noted that enthusiastic Trump supporters sometimes gather nearly a week in advance, recalling one rally in Pennsylvania where rain poured down days before the event, but Front Row Joes still braved the mud and inclement weather to be in the front row.
“It’s pouring rain. Not on the day, but days before. The mud is inches deep and they’ve been sleeping in their cars for days so they can get a front row seat,” Spicer recalled. “You have to say to yourself, ‘Wow, is there anyone out there who’s prepared for that?’ But they are. And like I said, they don’t just show up on the day. They’re there three, four, five, sometimes six days early, sleeping in the trunks of their cars or in the cabs of their pickup trucks. It’s just so amazing to see.”
“It’s not like a concert tour where you know your next stop is five weeks away, or even two months away,” Spicer added. “Trump will tweet, ‘I’m going to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania next week,’ and then he has to say, ‘Okay, I’m giving it all up.'”
“At one point we asked Mr. Trump, and he said, yes, they’re like people who support rock bands, they travel from event to event,” he added.
Spicer also noted that the group is not a “formal club,” but rather people join through natural interactions at meetings and by planning to show up early to the next meeting.
“So, the people I meet at the rallies say, ‘Oh, I want to do this. Can I sit in the front row?’ I’m like, ‘Sure. Come on over!’ People come from all over the country – Florida, New York, Ohio – they bond with each other and say, ‘Oh, I’d love to do that,'” Spicer recounted.
“We don’t have a formal club or anything like that, but they’re like, ‘OK, see you at the next one. I’ll be there four days early,'” he added. “They’re the people that we go to church with, they’re the people that we shop with. And like I said, there’s no cookie-cutter. We have one retired woman, we have people that are younger. So we need younger people, we need older people, we need black people, we need white people.
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