In which he not only digs himself into a hole, but only ends up digging himself into it even deeper (http://www.latimes.com/politics/washington/la-na-essential-washington-updates-white-house-press-secretary-ignores-1491936525-htmlstory.html):
QuoteWhite House Press Secretary Sean Spicer appeared to forget about the Holocaust when comparing Hitler with Syrian President Bashar Assad during a cringe-worthy televised briefing with reporters on Tuesday.
"You had someone as despicable as Hitler who didn't even sink to using chemical weapons," Spicer said, in an attempt to argue that Russia and other countries that are not standing up to Assad are on the wrong side of history.
Spicer's rendering ignored the horror of the Holocaust, where gas chambers were used as part of a genocide campaign that killed 6 million Jews as well as millions of others including Gypsies and gay people.
Many expressed shock on Twitter as Spicer went on to field other questions. Spicer was given a chance to recover in a follow-up question, but instead evoked more gasps.
"He was not using gas on his own people the same way," Spicer said. He referred to the Syria bomb victims as "innocent."
He then added awkwardly that he was aware of "Holocaust centers" and that he meant that Hitler did not use gas in the middle of towns.
The suggestion that Holocaust victims were not Hilter's "own people" — intended or not — hit a sore nerve for Jews and other victims who considered themselves loyal subjects of Germany.
Perhaps he should have taken Mark Twain's advice about it being "better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt."
So to this idiot, the use of carbon monoxide chambers installed on trucks which did kill Jews in the streets is not an example of the use of chemical weapons?
What about Zyclon B?