White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer had a very bad Tuesday, managing to mangle World War II history, Adolf Hitler's history with gassing innocent people, and Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad's name.
The inadvertent Holocaust revisionism and seeming downplaying of Hitler's crimes, on Passover no less, was by far the worst part of Spicer's Tuesday press briefing, and if you're wondering what was going through his head as he fumbled through his answers, Jimmy Kimmel gave it a crack on Tuesday night's Kimmel Live.
"Sean Spicer might be the only press secretary who needs a press secretary," Kimmel half-joked.
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