Dancing With the Stars: Karamo Brown angers fans by calling former Trump press secretary Sean Spicer ‘a really sweet guy’

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Dancing With the Stars has an all-star cast this year, including Queer Eye’s Karamo Brown, The Bachelorette’s Hannah Brown, and Dawson’s Creek star James Van Der Beek, whose role was foretold when he appeared on the show back in 2012 as a dramatized version of himself on Don’t Trust the B...in Apt. 23.

Controversially, the cast also includes former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer, who worked in the White House for six months before his resignation.

Karamo, the Queer Eye reboot's culture expert, said, “I was most excited to meet him,” when asked by Access Hollywood about the controversial Spicer. “People would look at us and think we're polar opposites but I’m a big believer that if you can talk to someone and meet in the middle, you can learn about each other and help each other both grow” he said.

He went on to call Spicer "a good guy, a really sweet guy."

Spicer famously claimed that Adolf Hitler “didn’t even sink to using chemical weapons.”

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“You guys know I believe there’s good in everyone,” @Karamo Brown yesterday captioned a sponsored IG post of himself, holding a McCafe coffee cup. Apparently this sentiment doesn’t hold water. A few hours later (in a now deleted tweet), Karamo fired back at me for posting a video clip of him speaking to Access Hollywood during his press tour for DANCING WITH THE STARS. In the clip Karamo calls new castmate, former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer, “a good guy; a really sweet guy.” Again, I simply posted the clip, not taken out of context, as I do all of the time with clips I find noteworthy—like the time Jonathan Van Ness tweeted his support of Utah Senator Mitt Romney. I don’t expect Karamo to step down from the show because of Spicer, a man who once told a room full of reporters that Hitler did not resort to "using the gas on his own people,” but equally I don’t expect him to go out of his way to normalize, let alone praise the man. Nobody in the Tr*ump administration should be given any kind of redemptive platform. You are, of course, welcome to disagree, as your army of followers sending angry tweets at me are actively doing. I welcome the dialogue. But then you ended your tweet to me, the one you sent before blocking me, by saying—and I quote (quoting, Karamo, cause it’s what I do)—“We fight harder than your ass ever has for people of color and members of the LGBTQIA community.” We, as in you and Spicer? Or who were you referring to? I’m an unemployed writer who likes to mouth off on social media. I do not claim to be an activist or to fight for anyone. I simply state my truths to whoever cares to read or listen. You can block me as you’ve done with @martigcummings and others who have publicly called your ass out, but our point still stands. I’ll leave you with a quote from writer Naomi Schulman: “Nice people made the best Nazis. My mom grew up next to them. They got along, refused to make waves, looked the other way when things got ugly and focused on happier things than ‘politics.’ They were lovely people who turned their heads as their neighbors were dragged away. You know who weren’t nice people? Resisters.”

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He’s also the person who said that Trump’s inauguration crowd was “the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period,” despite the empty landscape seen in photos, wore an upside down American flag pin and at one point during his tenure and reportedly began hiding in the bushes so he wouldn’t have to talk to Trump. Perhaps he can turn that into a dance move.

In the past, Karamo has clashed with his Queer Eye cast mates about politics. He and Jonathan van Ness went head to head when Karamo met with Vice President Mike Pence’s wife Karen’s chief of staff.

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“You guys know I believe there’s good in everyone,” @Karamo Brown yesterday captioned a sponsored IG post of himself, holding a McCafe coffee cup. Apparently this sentiment doesn’t hold water. A few hours later (in a now deleted tweet), Karamo fired back at me for posting a video clip of him speaking to Access Hollywood during his press tour for DANCING WITH THE STARS. In the clip Karamo calls new castmate, former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer, “a good guy; a really sweet guy.” Again, I simply posted the clip, not taken out of context, as I do all of the time with clips I find noteworthy—like the time Jonathan Van Ness tweeted his support of Utah Senator Mitt Romney. I don’t expect Karamo to step down from the show because of Spicer, a man who once told a room full of reporters that Hitler did not resort to "using the gas on his own people,” but equally I don’t expect him to go out of his way to normalize, let alone praise the man. Nobody in the Tr*ump administration should be given any kind of redemptive platform. You are, of course, welcome to disagree, as your army of followers sending angry tweets at me are actively doing. I welcome the dialogue. But then you ended your tweet to me, the one you sent before blocking me, by saying—and I quote (quoting, Karamo, cause it’s what I do)—“We fight harder than your ass ever has for people of color and members of the LGBTQIA community.” We, as in you and Spicer? Or who were you referring to? I’m an unemployed writer who likes to mouth off on social media. I do not claim to be an activist or to fight for anyone. I simply state my truths to whoever cares to read or listen. You can block me as you’ve done with @martigcummings and others who have publicly called your ass out, but our point still stands. I’ll leave you with a quote from writer Naomi Schulman: “Nice people made the best Nazis. My mom grew up next to them. They got along, refused to make waves, looked the other way when things got ugly and focused on happier things than ‘politics.’ They were lovely people who turned their heads as their neighbors were dragged away. You know who weren’t nice people? Resisters.”

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Now, Queer Eye fans are unimpressed with his comments. One writer posted the Access Hollywood video on Twitter only to have Karamo block him immediately.