It's that time of year again — the annual White House Easter Egg Roll, where the most important people in the country don their rabbit ears and sit down to read It's Not Easy Being a Bunny (or whatever his or her preferred choice of leporine literature may be).
This year, naturally, things looked a little different:
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White House Easter Bunny of yesteryear Sean Spicer picked How To Catch the Easter Bunny as his book of choice:
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Meanwhile, President Trump wasted a perfectly good coloring sheet to sign this autograph:
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White House counselor Kellyanne Conway walked down the turf carpet with her young 'uns in tow:
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First lady Melania Trump read Party Animals (but notably not this version or this version of Party Animals):
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Trump was swarmed by many adorable children and managed to ruin only one's day:
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It appeared to be a very successful Egg Roll, all things — including the looming, bespectacled Easter Bunny — considered. Jeva Lange
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