Sean Spicer could be out after debacle defending Trump

Embattled White House spokesman Sean Spicer may be getting less face time on TV following a shipwreck of a performance defending President Trump’s decision to fire the FBI chief, a new report said Wednesday.

A CNN reporter, citing sources, said high-level administration officials — including Trump himself — were evaluating whether to replace Spicer with his backup, Sarah Huckabee Sanders.

“WH sources: Highest levels incl. POTUS evaluating Sanders subbing for Spicer in briefing room. Last night an ‘embarrassment.. disaster,’ reporter Jim Acosta tweeted.

Sanders handled Wednesday’s press briefing with aplomb, and will conduct briefings through the end of the week, the White House said.

The switch followed a disastrous impromptu news conference outside the White House Tuesday night in which Spicer hid behind some bushes until TV cameramen turned off their lights and agreed not to take video of the briefing.

But even when he came out, Spicer delivered a cringe-worthy performance, failing to offer a clear timetable or rationale for Trump’s abrupt decision to can FBI Director James Comey.

“Just turn the lights off. Turn the lights off!” Spicer barked, according to an account in the Washington Post. “We’ll take care of this. … Can you just turn that light off?”

Asked if Trump or the Justice Department initiated memos critical of Comey that were given to the president Tuesday, Spicer waffled.

“It was all him,” he said of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, as a reporter pressed him.

“That’s correct — I mean, I can’t, I guess I shouldn’t say that, thank you for the help on that one. No one from the White House. That was a DOJ decision.”

Asked if Trump discussed Comey with Rosenstein — who wrote the memo that reportedly became the basis for firing the FBI chief — he again stammered and struggled to give an answer.

“No, I don’t believe, I don’t know how that sequence went — I don’t know,” he said.

Asked when the pair last spoke, he said: “Uh, I don’t know. I don’t know. There’s some — I don’t know. I don’t know.”

He then mercifully ended the Q&A after 10 minutes.

“Just another Tuesday at the White House,” Sanders later remarked to reporters.

On Wednesday, she dismissed the CNN report, telling The Post, “That’s ridiculous. No changes here.”

Spicer has been widely mocked for his combative performances at the daily briefings, most notably by comic Melissa McCarthy on “Saturday Night Live,” which she will host this weekend.

Trump reportedly has been angered by her portrayals, in which she chomps on gum, berates the press and weaponizes the podium to attack reporters.