Jimmy Kimmel imagines Sean Spicer's internal monologue as he flubs Hitler and the Holocaust

Jimmy Kimmel imagines Sean Spicer inner monlogue

(Image credit: Jimmy Kimmel Live)

last updated 12 April 2017

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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Peter Weber is a senior editor at TheWeek.com, and has handled the editorial night shift since the website launched in 2008. A graduate of Northwestern University, Peter has worked at Facts on File and The New York Times Magazine. He speaks Spanish and Italian and plays bass and rhythm cello in an Austin rock band. Follow him on Twitter.

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