--- title: Jason Isaacs Ridicules Sean Spicer on Instagram description: The Star Trek: Discovery star posted a scathing caption calling former White House press secretary as a “poisonous purveyor of lies.” canonical: https://time.com/4947777/jason-isaacs-instagram-sean-spicer/ author: Entertainment Weekly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-09-19T16:30:08.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:47:23.113Z og:title: Draco Malfoy's Dad Goes In on That Sean Spicer Emmy Bit og:description: The Star Trek star called him a "poisonous purveyor of lies" og:url: https://time.com/4947777/jason-isaacs-instagram-sean-spicer/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta39635a88e7a1f08/6988de580a4a2239769cff53/jason-isaacs-tca-tour.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 5000 og:image:height: 2813 og:image:alt: 2017 Summer TCA Tour - CBS Television Studios' Summer Soiree - Arrivals og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Draco Malfoy's Dad Goes In on That Sean Spicer Emmy Bit twitter:description: The Star Trek star called him a "poisonous purveyor of lies" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta39635a88e7a1f08/6988de580a4a2239769cff53/jason-isaacs-tca-tour.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Draco Malfoy's Dad Calls Sean Spicer a 'Poisonous Purveyor of Lies' > Sponsored content. 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Gregg DeGuire—Getty Images by [Shirley Li / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Shirley Li / Entertainment Weekly Sep 19, 2017 4:30 PM UTC Jason Isaacs had no patience for [Sean Spicer’s appearance at the Emmys ](http://ew.com/tv/2017/09/17/sean-spicer-emmys-cameo-reactions/)on Sunday. The _Star Trek: Discovery_ star — and _Harry Potter_ alum — posted an Instagram with a scathing caption Monday afternoon, describing the former White House press secretary as a “poisonous purveyor of lies.” The British actor wasn’t as taken with Spicer’s appearance [as some guests were that night](https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2017/09/sean-spicer-emmys-selfies-james-corden), instead taking a surreptitious selfie at the Netflix Emmys party, frowning while pointing at Spicer at the bar: And Isaacs didn’t stop there. In his caption, he compares Spicer to Joseph Goebbels, one of Hitler’s right-hand men, and goes on to compare his role in the White House to the distorted, brainwashing language created in George Orwell’s dystopian classic _1984_. He even adds “three surprising things” about the man chatting with actors behind him in the photo, writing: --- > “” --- In other words, even Lucius Malfoy disapproves of Spicer’s Emmys debut. _This_ [_article_](http://ew.com/tv/2017/09/18/star-trek-discovery-star-jason-isaacs-sean-spicer/) _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://ew.com) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4947777/jason-isaacs-instagram-sean-spicer/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4947777/jason-isaacs-instagram-sean-spicer/"},"headline":"Draco Malfoy's Dad Calls Sean Spicer a 'Poisonous Purveyor of Lies'","datePublished":"2017-09-19T16:30:08.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:47:23.113Z","description":"The Star Trek star called him a \"poisonous purveyor of lies\"","url":"https://time.com/4947777/jason-isaacs-instagram-sean-spicer/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","Harry Potter","sean spicer","emmys 2017"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta39635a88e7a1f08/6988de580a4a2239769cff53/jason-isaacs-tca-tour.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Shirley Li / Entertainment Weekly"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta39635a88e7a1f08/6988de580a4a2239769cff53/jason-isaacs-tca-tour.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"2017 Summer TCA Tour - CBS Television Studios' Summer Soiree - Arrivals","caption":"2017 Summer TCA Tour - CBS Television Studios' Summer Soiree - Arrivals","creditText":"Gregg DeGuire—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":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4947777/jason-isaacs-instagram-sean-spicer/","name":"Draco Malfoy's Dad Calls Sean Spicer a 'Poisonous Purveyor of Lies'"}}]}] ```