Sean Spicer just resigned — here are some of his biggest controversies as Trump's press secretary

Sean Spicer announced that his resignation as President Donald Trump's press secretary on Friday morning — shortly after he told Trump that he strongly disagreed with his choice for the new communications director, Anthony Scaramucci.

As the buffer between the press and Trump, Spicer had a challenging job — one that he made even more difficult with repeated blunders and controversies.

Here are some of the biggest controversies to take place since Spicer took over the role of the official White House press secretary on January 20.

Spicer's role started off to a rocky start when, two days after Trump's inauguration, when he declared Trump had "the largest audience to witness an inauguration, period."

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Despite photos of the event showing a crowd much sparser than former President Barack Obama's 2009 inauguration, Spicer insisted that no other president attracted a bigger crowd of visitors and fought with reporters who challenged his assertion.

Spicer has repeatedly gone back and forth on whether Trump's decision to block people from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the US was indeed "a ban."

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Even though Trump himself tweeted about the travel ban, Spicer insisted that it "can't be a ban" and should instead be called "extreme vetting."

During his time as press secretary, Spicer became known for repeatedly sparring with reporters — such as when he told one journalist to "calm down" and another one to stop shaking her head.

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"Calm down," Spicer once told a journalist who was asking him questions about Trump's claims of wiretapping during the 2016 elections.

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