Melissa McCarthy was born to do many things, but clearly one of them was to dress in drag and eviscerate Sean Spicer on Saturday Night Live. McCarthy was able to spoof Spicer so effectively because he’s basically acting like the propaganda mouthpiece of a third-rate dictator, something that’s intrinsically amusing and an open invitation to ruthless parody. This Politico piece indicates that Donald Trump was bothered by the portrayal, which is pretty funny considering Spicer is so lampoon-able precisely because he works so unflaggingly to do exactly what Donald Trump wants him to do. But this line jumped out at me:

“More than being lampooned as a press secretary who makes up facts, it was Spicer’s portrayal by a woman that was most problematic in the president’s eyes, according to sources close to him.”

It’s yet sign of Donald Trump’s virulent misogyny that to him, Spicer’s sin isn’t that he’s a soulless hack, but that a woman was able to lampoon him - as if that’s the worst fate imaginable. Pathetic.