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Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer may be writing a book about his time with Trump, but the guy might not have a very firm grasp on the literary tradition—or the tradition of Christmas.Earlier this week, in honor of the holiday season, a photo posted to what appears to be Spicer's official Instagram account shows Franklin D. Roosevelt's own copy of Charles Dickens's book A Christmas Carol on display at the White House. Dickens's 1843 novella about a yuletide grump who's taken on a Christmas scared-straight program by a trio of ghosts is one of the most enduring Christmas tales ever.The book's been adapted into plays and Bill Murray comedies and a children's Muppet musical, and basically created Christmas as we know it today. It even helped popularize Trump's beloved phrase, "Merry Christmas."It's not clear if Spicer is familiar with any of that, though, because, as Huffington Post's Ashley Feinberg pointed out, he apparently thinks A Christmas Carol is full of actual carols."FDR's book of Christmas Carols," Spicer wrote in the caption to his Instagram post, seemingly unaware that A Christmas Carol is full of paragraphs and sentences instead of lyrics to "The Little Drummer Boy.""That's a classic novel about the evils of greed and glory of redemption. Not a book of songs," an Instagram user named @mseeley commented, hoping to pull a Ghost of Christmas Past and help Spicey see the error in his ways. But, alas, it doesn't seem to have worked.Of course, it's possible that Spicer is just trying to make a joke, since this wouldn't be the first time the guy has made an attempt at humor that's fallen flat. In any case, bah, humbug.Related: Sean Spicer Really Thinks 'the President Has Been Clear'
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