Watch: Sean Spicer Apologises for ‘Hitler’ and ‘Holocaust’ Remark

House democratic leader Nacy Pelosi has publically called for Spicer to resign from his position as Press Secretary

US Press Secretary Sean Spicer (Photo: AP)

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer apologised on Tuesday evening after making a series of remarks in a press conference that caused an uproar. Spicer created a veritable firestorm, saying that Adolf Hitler "didn't even sink to using chemical weapons" against his own people like Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad.

Spicer said that Hitler, whom he called "despicable," did not use "the gas on his own people the same way Assad used them."

He then offered a clarification, saying:

In no way was I trying to lessen the horrendous nature of the Holocaust. I was trying to draw a distinction of the tactic of using airplanes to drop chemical weapons on population centres. Any attack on innocent people is reprehensible and inexcusable.

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