Sean Spicer Blows It, Again

"We didn't use chemical weapons in World War II. You had someone as despicable as Hitler who didn't descend to using chemical weapons."

With these words, Sean Spicer went from someone who was basically considered incompetent to someone people were screaming to see fired.

Spicer's statement, said on one of the most holy days of the Jewish calendar - the second day of Passover - is the most serious of his gaffes since taking the job as President Trump's press secretary, and this time, everyone from the Anne Frank Center to Israel's intelligence minister wanted to see Spicer appropriately apologize or resign.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi also expressed her outrage at Spicer's comments.

"While Jewish families across America celebrate Passover, the chief spokesman of this White House is downplaying the horror of the Holocaust," she wrote in a statement. "Sean Spicer must be fired, and the President must immediately disavow his spokesman's statements. Either he is speaking for the President, or the President should have known better than to hire him."

Spicer has made a series of gaffes since taking on the position of press secretary at the White House, ranging from referring to both the Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau and the Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull by the wrong name to admitting, during his apology for his insensitivity about the Holocaust, that the United States president was trying to "destabilize" Syria in an effort to suss out ISIS militants.

"I needed to make sure that I clarified and not was in any way, shape or form any more of a distraction from the president’s decisive action in Syria and the attempts that he is making to destabilize the region and root ISIS out of Syria," the beleaguered press secretary told CNN's Wolf Blitzer during his apology.

Ironically, Blitzer himself is the son of Holocaust survivors, and did not give Spicer an easy time of it when interviewing him about his Holocaust gaffe.

"Why bring Hitler into this?" Blitzer asked. "Tell us who you're apologizing to."

Blitzer also asked Spicer if he was worried that he had a credibility problem, and while Spicer has said that he has apologized and that all he can do is ask for forgiveness, it would appear that the press secretary still has much forgiveness to get.

During his apology, Spicer unsurprisingly dug himself into a deeper hole when he noted that Hitler brought the Jews into the "Holocaust center."

“I think when you come to sarin gas, there was no, he was not using the gas on his own people the same way that Assad is doing," Spicer said during his attempt at an apology. "I mean there was clearly — I understand your point — thank you, I appreciate that — there was not, in the, he brought them into the Holocaust centre, I understand that. But I was saying in the way that Assad used them where he went into towns, dropped them down to innocent into the middle of towns, it was brought, so the use of it. I appreciate the clarification; that was not the intent.”

Spicer's use of the term "Holocaust centre" instead of gas chamber or concentration camp stunned Twitter, who reacted with expected horror - and some with gallows humor - at the casual expression.

Many Twitter users questioned what a Holocaust centre would even be, while some echoed the call to have Spicer fired as a result of a clear lack of knowledge of one of the worst genocides of the 20th century.

While it is important to note that Spicer has, indeed, attempted an apology, his stunning mistake April 11 about the Holocaust will no doubt continue to dog him for a very long time. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Trump has not commented about this most serious gaffe of Spicer's.