White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham has inherited the toughest job on Earth: trying to defend the indefensible snarkiness from the current president of the United States.

Grisham gave it a shot this morning, saying that Donald Trump is a “counter puncher” in her effort to defend Trump’s hideous insult last night that implied that the late U.S. Rep. John Dingell is in hell.

Maybe you heard Trump say it. He was talking about Dingell’s wife, Debbie, who voted in the House to impeach Trump. Trump rambled on about Dingell “looking down” on his wife, then added, “maybe he was looking up. I don’t know.”

You could hear the audible groan from the rally crowd gathered in Battle Creek, Mich., in the home state where John Dingell served in Congress longer than anyone in U.S. history.

Trump didn’t back off.

Neither did Grisham this morning on “Good Morning America.” But really? Declaring that Trump is a “counter puncher” as a defense against the latest utterly tasteless, crass and reprehensible remark to flow out of POTUS’s pie hole?

Disgraceful.