Donald Trump‘s former Press Secretary Sean Spicer is on a shortlist to become U.S. Navy secretary, DailyMail.com has learned.
Spicer, 53, who now hosts his own online politics show, was the public face of Trump’s first White House for six months in 2017.
But he was also a Navy reservist, rising to the rank of commander.
As a result, his name has been floated as a potential secretary of the Navy as Trump goes about building an administration of loyalists and faces familiar from his first term in office.
And Spicer visited Mar-a-Lago this week, according to a source familiar with the vetting process.
Other names are in the mix. But the idea has the backing of Trump’s former strategist Steve Bannon, who was interviewed by Spicer for his online show Friday.
In a lighthearted segment, Bannon (who also served in the U.S. Navy) said he was ready to lobby on his old friend’s behalf
‘Do you want to be Secretary of the Navy?’ he asked. ‘Sean, should I start working that one?’
Spicer plays it cool. ‘Anyway, so let’s get on,’ he says quickly, sounding embarrassed.
Bannon then seems to suggest that former White House Chief of Staff