White House spokesman apologizes for ‘insensitive’ Hitler remark

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer speaks to a reporter about a comparison he made between Syria's President Bashar al-Assad and Hitler during an earlier press briefing at the White House April 11, 2017 in Washington, DC. Spicer apologized Tuesday for "insensitive" remarks during a press briefing in which he asserted that Adolf Hitler did not use chemical weapons on his own people. / AFP PHOTO / Brendan Smialowski
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer speaks to a reporter about a comparison he made between Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad and Hitler during an earlier press briefing at the White House April 11, 2017 in Washington, DC.
Spicer apologized Tuesday for “insensitive” remarks during a press briefing in which he asserted that Adolf Hitler did not use chemical weapons on his own people. / AFP PHOTO / 

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — White House press secretary Sean Spicer apologized Tuesday for “insensitive” remarks during a press briefing in which he asserted that Adolf Hitler did not use chemical weapons on his own people.

“Frankly, I mistakenly used an inappropriate and insensitive comment about the Holocaust and there is no comparison,” Spicer told CNN. “For that I apologize. It was a mistake to do that.”

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