Sean Spicer says President Trump's word can be trusted 'if he's not joking'

Sean Spicer.
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White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer was hounded by NBC News' Peter Alexander during Monday's press briefing about President Trump's credibility. Pressing Spicer about Trump's many contradictory statements, Alexander asked Spicer point blank: "Can you say affirmatively that whenever the president says something, we can trust it to be real?"

Spicer's response was less than heartening. "If he's not joking, of course," Spicer said. Watch the full exchange below. Kimberly Alters

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Kimberly Alters

Kimberly Alters is the news editor at TheWeek.com. She is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.