Someone Turned Sean Spicer’s Incredibly Dumb Hitler Comments Into Veep’s End Credits

White House press secretary Sean Spicer has one job: to clearly communicate to the American media without making himself part of the story. Unfortunately for Spicer, he’s extremely, extremely bad at it.

During a press conference yesterday Spicer was responding to questions about the US government’s military intervention in Syria when he just casually dismissed Hitler’s use of chemical weapons.

Press Secretary Sean Spicer claimed Adolf Hitler didn’t deploy chemical weapons during the Holocaust https://t.co/OS20Dq9DfK pic.twitter.com/dvAuExihNv

— Bloomberg (@business) April 11, 2017

“Someone as despicable as Hitler… didn’t even sink to using chemical weapons,” Spicer said.

When he asked to clarify that comment by a journalist he said “He [Hitler] didn’t use the gas on his own people” before drawing a distinction between Hitler’s use of gas in “holocaust centres” and the sarin gas attack on Syria last week.

After widespread outrage Spicer offered up an apology, but the Democrats are still calling for his resignation.

It’s a situation absolutely begging for devastating satirical parody and that’s exactly what we’ve got.

Dan Ketchum has mashed up Spicer’s comments with the closing credits of HBO’s Veep and it works… beautifully. In Ketchum’s own words “I spliced together footage and music from HBO’s Veep, about a fictional administration full of incompetent, tone-deaf, narcissists, with footage of an actual administrations full of incompetent, tone-deaf, narcissists.”

Nailed it. You can watch the video here:

It’s not the first time real life politics has been mashed up with Veep. Last year ABC video editor Huw Parkinson, the genius behind Insiders video mashups seamlessly inserted Veep’s Selina Myers into a Leigh Sales interview.

The mashup was influenced by Malcolm Turnbull’s use of “continuity with change” as an election slogan, right out of the Veep playbook.