--- title: Donald Trump Press Secretary Gives Briefing: Watch Live description: Sean Spicer, President-elect Donald Trump's incoming White House press secretary, is set to give a press briefing. Watch live here canonical: https://time.com/4639226/donald-trump-inauguration-press-secretary-watch-live/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-01-19T14:37:40.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T02:48:21.386Z article:section: Politics og:title: Watch Live: Donald Trump's Press Secretary Gives Briefing og:description: One day before the president-elect's inauguration og:url: https://time.com/4639226/donald-trump-inauguration-press-secretary-watch-live/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt51407ab03598c43b/6988b6220a4a22db8d9cc9b7/sean-spicer-donald-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Sean Spicer og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Live: Donald Trump's Press Secretary Gives Briefing twitter:description: One day before the president-elect's inauguration twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt51407ab03598c43b/6988b6220a4a22db8d9cc9b7/sean-spicer-donald-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Live: Donald Trump's Press Secretary Sean Spicer Gives Briefing by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Jan 19, 2017 2:37 PM UTC  Sean Spicer, Republican National Committee communications director and chief strategist, waits for an elevator as he arrives at Trump Tower, in New York on Nov. 16, 2016. Sean Spicer, Republican National Committee communications director and chief strategist, waits for an elevator as he arrives at Trump Tower, in New York on Nov. 16, 2016.Carolyn Kaster—AP by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Jan 19, 2017 2:37 PM UTC Sean Spicer, [President-elect Donald Trump](http://time.com/time-person-of-the-year-2016-donald-trump/)‘s incoming White House press secretary, is set to give a press briefing on Thursday morning, just one day before [Trump’s inauguration](http://time.com/4637835/dont-watch-trump-inauguration/). Trump is [set to take office ](http://time.com/4633043/donald-trump-inauguration-how-to-watch/)on Friday, after pre-inauguration events on Thursday that include a wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery and a celebration at the Lincoln Memorial. Watch Spicer’s briefing live above starting at 9:30 a.m. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4639226/donald-trump-inauguration-press-secretary-watch-live/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4639226/donald-trump-inauguration-press-secretary-watch-live/"},"headline":"Watch Live: Donald Trump's Press Secretary Sean Spicer Gives Briefing","datePublished":"2017-01-19T14:37:40.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T02:48:21.386Z","description":"One day before the president-elect's inauguration","url":"https://time.com/4639226/donald-trump-inauguration-press-secretary-watch-live/","keywords":["Donald Trump","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt51407ab03598c43b/6988b6220a4a22db8d9cc9b7/sean-spicer-donald-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt51407ab03598c43b/6988b6220a4a22db8d9cc9b7/sean-spicer-donald-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Sean Spicer","caption":"Sean Spicer","creditText":"Carolyn Kaster—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/donald-trump/","name":"Donald Trump"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4639226/donald-trump-inauguration-press-secretary-watch-live/","name":"Watch Live: Donald Trump's Press Secretary Sean Spicer Gives Briefing"}}]}] ```