--- title: Sean Spicer Won't Say If Trump Is Recording Conversations description: Press Secretary Sean Spicer refused to say whether or not President Donald Trump is secretly recording White House conversations canonical: https://time.com/4779630/sean-spicer-donald-trump-tapes-recordings/ author: Maya Rhodan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-05-15T19:24:28.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T04:56:04.531Z article:section: Politics og:title: Sean Spicer Still Won't Say If President Trump Is Recording Conversations og:description: Spicer deflected the question once again og:url: https://time.com/4779630/sean-spicer-donald-trump-tapes-recordings/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbbf490bf9ccd0539/6988cd5186f68e26316e4b18/gettyimages-682379228.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer Holds Daily Press Briefing og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Sean Spicer Still Won't Say If President Trump Is Recording Conversations twitter:description: Spicer deflected the question once again twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbbf490bf9ccd0539/6988cd5186f68e26316e4b18/gettyimages-682379228.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Sean Spicer Still Won't Say If President Trump Is Recording Conversations by [Maya Rhodan](https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan May 15, 2017 7:24 PM UTC  White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer answers questions during the daily news conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House May 12, 2017 in Washington, DC White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer answers questions during the daily news conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House May 12, 2017 in Washington, DCWin McNamee—Getty Images by [Maya Rhodan](https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan May 15, 2017 7:24 PM UTC White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer still won’t say whether or not President Donald Trump is [secretly recording his conversations](http://time.com/4777068/white-house-tapes-trump-comey/). When asked at the Monday press briefing whether or not President Donald Trump was recording conversations in the White House following a tweet the president sent about “tapes” in reference to FBI Director James Comey, Spicer once again deflected the quqestion. “The president has nothing further to add on that,” Spicer said repeatedly when pressed on whether or not there were tapes. When Spicer was asked if administration officials and other lawmakers had anything to worry about when having conversations with the president, he offered up a similar response. President Donald Trump issued a series of tweets on Friday following the backlash over Comey’s firing. “James Comey better hope that there are no ‘tapes’ of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!” Trump [tweeted.](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/863007411132649473) > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/863007411132649473) Lawmakers have called on Trump to give them any such tapes if they exist. “If there are any tapes of this conversation, they need to be turned over,” Sen. Lindsey Graham [said Sunday](http://time.com/4778653/trump-james-comey-tapes-congress/). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4779630/sean-spicer-donald-trump-tapes-recordings/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4779630/sean-spicer-donald-trump-tapes-recordings/"},"headline":"Sean Spicer Still Won't Say If President Trump Is Recording Conversations","datePublished":"2017-05-15T19:24:28.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T04:56:04.531Z","description":"Spicer deflected the question once again","url":"https://time.com/4779630/sean-spicer-donald-trump-tapes-recordings/","keywords":["White House","Donald Trump","onetime","sean spicer"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbbf490bf9ccd0539/6988cd5186f68e26316e4b18/gettyimages-682379228.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Maya Rhodan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbbf490bf9ccd0539/6988cd5186f68e26316e4b18/gettyimages-682379228.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer Holds Daily Press Briefing","caption":"White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer Holds Daily Press Briefing","creditText":"Win McNamee—Getty Images","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/white-house/","name":"White House"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4779630/sean-spicer-donald-trump-tapes-recordings/","name":"Sean Spicer Still Won't Say If President Trump Is Recording Conversations"}}]}] ```