A senior member of Israel’s government welcomed on Wednesday White House spokesman Sean Spicer’s apology for saying Adolf Hitler did not use chemical weapons, comments that overlooked the killing of millions of Jews in Nazi gas chambers. “Since he apologized and retracted his remarks, as far as (I) am concerned, the matter is over,” Intelligence…
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer apologized for saying Adolf Hitler didn’t resort to using chemical weapons like Syria’s president, after an outpouring of criticism from politicians and Jewish groups on Tuesday, including calls for his removal from his position. Spicer made the remarks during a daily press briefing while addressing the chemical attack and…
A highlight, if you could call it that (and I don’t think you could), of being a non-observant Jew on Passover is that I’ve been online to witness, in real Twitter time, President Trump’s press secretary Sean Spicer’s cascade of unfortunate, seemingly ill-informed Holocaust references. Did Hitler use chemical weapons? Yes. Against his own people?…
Ever since its first days, the Trump Administration has had an issue with its Holocaust history. First there was Trump’s ridiculously short, vapid Holocaust Remembrance Day statement, in which he insinuated that Jews should be grateful that Trump took the time to make any kind of statement at all. And now, in a very slightly…
On the day when President Trump most forcefully condemned anti-Semitism, his press secretary Sean Spicer is clashing with the Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect, based in New York, over whether Trump’s comments were powerful enough. Trump on Tuesday decried “the anti-Semitic threats targeting our Jewish community and community centers,” including yesterday’s wave of 11…
It should come as no surprise that “I’m sorry” does not seem to be in the current administration’s vocabulary. Following the widespread backlash against Donald Trump’s disgraceful Holocaust Memorial Day statement (you can read my piece on all the statement’s problems here), White House Secretary Sean Spicer doubled down on the statement in a press…
President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and White House adviser, Jared Kushner, is registered to vote in two states. Election officials and voting records revealed that Kushner is registered in both New Jersey and New York, The Washington Post reported. Trump has stated that being on the rolls in multiple states is suggestive of voter fraud. Kushner’s…
Sean Spicer, the new White House Press Secretary, is, well, a very weird guy. Leaving aside his unfashionable, dogmatic loyalism and his , we still have his tweets. His glorious glorious tweets. The long standing Dippin’ Dots feud (“Dippin dots is NOT the ice cream of the future,” Spicer declared in 2010. “I think I…
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