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A book signing for former White House press secretary Sean Spicer’s “The Briefing” was scrapped by a BJ’s Wholesale Club in Massachusetts because of concerns about the “political climate,” a report said.

The ​bulk-shopping store in Seekonk put the kibosh on Saturday’s book event, one of more than two dozen promotional stops for Spicer scheduled before the end of September, Fox News said Tuesday.

“We got word last Friday the store was canceling ‘due to the political climate,’’’ a spokesperson for Regnery Publishing told the news outlet. “Of course, we were very disappointed, but also surprised since we have had such a terrific response to all of the other events we have scheduled around the country.​”

Spicer’s book was published nationwide on Tuesday.​

The BJ’s store in Seekonk has hosted other book signings, including for “The Real Housewives of New Jersey” and “Cake Boss,” but it was unclear if it had ever held an event for a political book before.

Current and former members of the Trump administration have been subjected to backlash during public appearances in recent weeks.

Press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who took over for Spicer, was asked to leave a Virginia restaurant last month.

Earlier this month, former White House strategist Steve Bannon was called a “piece of trash” while visiting a bookstore in Richmond, Va.

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen was confronted with chants of “Shame!” while dining at a Mexican restaurant in Washington, DC, last month in response to the administration’s policy of separating children from their parents along the southern border.

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