Playbook:

CLEANING UP THE CLEANUP — DONALD TRUMP’s intense comments this weekend calling his political opponents “vermin” who must be stopped prompted WaPo to run a headline likening him to ADOLF HITLER and BENITO MUSSOLINI. Trump campaign spokesman STEVEN CHEUNG responded with a statement that didn’t quite put the issue to bed, calling the comparison a “ridiculous assertion” from “snowflakes” whose “entire existence will be crushed when President Trump returns to the White House.” Then Cheung followed up with a tweak: He meant to say their “sad, miserable existence.”