Sean Spicer consistently stars in his own self-directed catastrophes. The latest instalment of his almost-impressive incompetence has come in the form of a press conference in which – defending Trump’s decision to bomb Syria after Assad’s use of chemical weapons on his own people – he remarkably claimed that “Hitler didn’t sink to the level of using chemical weapons.”

After killing an estimated six million European Jews during the Second World War, many of them in gas chambers, it’s hard to think of a person in history more synonymous with chemical weapons than Adolf Hitler.

If any of you reading are considering a career where you may have to do a press conference, let lessons be learned – don‘t bring up Hitler.

Asked to clarify his comments it transpired that Spicer had indeed heard of what happened in World War 2, but started talking about “the Holocaust Centre”. The. Holocaust. Centre.

Happy Passover from the Trump administration, I guess.