Every Wednesday, we bring you the most important and amusing news stories of the past week. This week: Sean Spicer forgets about the Holocaust.
- Bashar Al-Assad’s Syrian regime used chemical weapons in northwestern Syria, killing dozens of men, women, and children.
- President Trump ordered the launch of 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles into Syria in retaliation for Al-Assad’s apparent war crime.
- Trump’s hawkish decision drew praise from the right and center-left, but horrified the alt-righters and led to a hilarious r/the_Donald meltdown.
- Devin Nunes recused himself from his House committee’s Russia probe.
- Neil Gorsuch was confirmed by the Senate on Friday after Republicans invoked the so-called “nuclear option,” changing Senate rules to block Democratic filibusters. Gorsuch was sworn in on Monday.
- Here are this week’s memes.
- White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer compared Bashar Al-Assad to Hitler, saying that even Hitler “didn’t even sink to using chemical weapons.” Hitler, of course, used chemicals to kill about six million people. Spicer also managed to call concentration camps “Holocaust centers,” for some reason.
- Here’s video of Donald Trump talking about telling Chinese President Xi Jinping about the Syrian strike over “a beautiful piece of chocolate cake.” Trump also accidentally says he bombed Iraq in this video. It’s great.
- Republicans won a special election in Kansas’ fourth district. The heavily Republican district voted for the GOP candidate by a slimmer margin than usual.
- The FBI had a FISA warrant to monitor Trump adviser Carter Page’s relationship with Russia.
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