Sean Spicer Apologises

The White House press secretary had criticized Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's alleged use of chemical weapons, saying that even Adolf Hitler - who used gas chambers to kill millions of Jews - did not sink to that level of warfare and "was not using the gas on his own people in the same way that Assad is doing."

White House press secretary Sean Spicer apologised Tuesday for "insensitive" remarks in which he seemed to favorably compare Adolf Hitler's actions during the Holocaust to atrocities carried out now by strongman Bashar al-Assad in Syria.

The White House press secretary had criticized Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's alleged use of chemical weapons, saying that even Adolf Hitler - who used gas chambers to kill millions of Jews - did not sink to that level of warfare and "was not using the gas on his own people in the same way that Assad is doing."

White House press secretary Sean Spicer apologised Tuesday for "insensitive" remarks in which he seemed to favorably compare Adolf Hitler's actions during the Holocaust to atrocities carried out now by strongman Bashar al-Assad in Syria.