Trump is considering making Sean Spicer his Navy secretary

Donald Trump's erstwhile Press Secretary Sean Spicer is connected a shortlist to go U.S. Navy secretary, DailyMail.com has learned. 

Spicer, 53, who present hosts his ain online authorities show, was the nationalist look of Trump's archetypal White House for six months successful 2017.

But helium was besides a Navy reservist, rising to the fertile of commander.

As a result, his sanction has been floated arsenic a imaginable caput of the Navy arsenic Trump goes astir gathering an medication of loyalists and faces acquainted from his archetypal word successful office.

And Spicer visited Mar-a-Lago this week, according to a root acquainted with the vetting process.

Other names are successful the mix. But the thought has the backing of Trump's erstwhile strategist Steve Bannon, who was interviewed by Spicer for his online show Friday.

In a lighthearted segment, Bannon (who besides served successful the U.S. Navy) said helium was acceptable to lobby connected his aged friend's behalf

'Do you privation to beryllium Secretary of the Navy?' helium asked. 'Sean, should I commencement moving that one?'

Spicer plays it cool. 'Anyway, truthful let's get on,' helium says quickly, sounding embarrassed.

Bannon past seems to suggest that erstwhile White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, a Navy reserve ensign, was jockeying for the role.

But Bannon said Spicer had his backing. 

'I indispensable accidental this connected air, I perfectly 1,000 percent enactment you being caput of the Navy, and I volition get moving connected that close now,' helium says.

Spicer sounds reluctant to prosecute with the thought and explains that it mightiness origin him immoderate problems astatine home.

'My woman is going to admit that,' helium says. 'I convey you for that.'

Spicer's clip astatine the White House was portion of Trump's astir turbulent clip successful office, arsenic cardinal figures waged warfare with 1 different and the media.

He rapidly became a household sanction erstwhile helium blasted the property a time aft Trump was sworn in, and the president was frustrated by comparisons that showed his inauguration assemblage to beryllium smaller than President Barack Obama's.

Spicer insisted it was 'the largest assemblage to ever witnesser an inauguration, period, some successful idiosyncratic and astir the globe.'

That acceptable a signifier for a property caput successful an awkward presumption trying to support immoderate of Trump's astir outlandish boasts.

He near arsenic portion of a wider shakeup of strategy that heralded the famously abbreviated tenure of Anthony Scaramucci arsenic communications director.

He capitalized connected his notoriety by appearing successful play 28 of 'Dancing with the Stars' but was eliminated aft performing a foxtrot and a tango successful occurrence nine,