Spicer is "checking" if Trump will continue WH tradition of Nowruz (Persian New Year) Greetings

[Miles Archer]

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/03/obama-nowruz-persian-new-year

Every year while in office, former President Barack Obama crafted an annual address to mark Nowruz, the Persian New Year, and sent his greetings to the millions of people of Iranian descent celebrating in the United States and abroad. The messages gained even greater significance over the past several years, as they came amid ongoing negotiations over what would eventually become a historic nuclear deal.

But as White House press secretary Sean Spicer warned in February, "there is a new president in town," one that has consistently pushed anti-Muslim rhetoric into the mainstream, supports banning Muslims from immigrating to the United States, and has threatened to dismantle the same nuclear agreement Obama said he hoped to achieve in his Nowruz messages.

It's been more than 24 hours since the start of this year's celebration, and President Donald Trump has yet to issue a message of his own. When asked Tuesday whether Trump planned to issue Nowruz greetings similar to Obama's, White House press secretary Sean Spicer demurred, saying he would get back to reporters on the issue. The absence of such remarks would come on the heels of a bungled Black History Month and the administration's failure to mention Jews in its Holocaust Remembrance Day statement.

[SummerSnow]

1. Persian New Year..cancelled at the White House

[sarcasmo]

2. Why would a Man baby care about another countries tradition? Dolt45

[MineralMan]

3. Will he ban the Eid stamp?

Does he even know it exists? Can he remember his own middle name these days?

[dawnie51]

4. He doesn't give a rat's ass.....

about our own traditions, let alone another countries' traditions.

[Miles Archer]

5. He cares about the tradition of a $3 million taxpayer-funded trip to Mar-A-Lago every weekend

He cares about the tradition of taxpayers paying $1 million per day for the Secret Service to protect Melania and Barron in Trump Tower.

He cares about the tradition of putting black plastic over the windows in the Mar-A-Lago "press room" so that they can't get any shots of him playing golf.

Link to tweet

He has a lot of traditions, just not any that are admirable or worthwhile.