It’s the “his own people” that’s most telling. At a subconscious, gut-belief level, Spicer doesn’t consider Jewish Germans and Austrians to be Germans and Austrians, i.e. Hitler’s people. He considers them wholly Other in a way that is analogous to Hitler’s own Othering of Jews, gays, Communists, dissenters, etc.

yeah that’s never where you insert a “but” or “however.” Other examples where this is NEVER CORRECT, and yet when the GOP gets started...I swear I’ve heard all of these:

Trump Hotel, Casino and Holocaust Center™  

“In no way was I trying to lessen the horrendous nature of the Holocaust, however...”

Let’s not miss the fact that he seems to differentiate the Jewish men, women, and children killed in “holocaust centers” from “innocents” killed by Assad.

Arbeit macht Holocaust Centers.

I think what he meant to say is that even Hitler “didn’t conduct a chemical weapon attack on Syrian opposition forces from a Su-22 fixed-wing aircraft on April 4, 2017.”

Is the Holocaust Center like a mall? Or like a sports arena, like the Staples Center? Does Sean spell it fancy, like Centre?

I want to bitch slap him sooo hard right now. Happy Passover everyone!!!

One misstep is sloppy.

Holocaust centers.

I like that the guy whose job is to concisely relay information to the press, is unable to make a statement without issuing a clarification to explain his original clarification.

Always remember- Never Go Full Hitler

I don’t think he did it on purpose.

1. April Ryan needs a raise. I don’t know what they are paying her, but it isn’t enough to put up with this BS.

I agree that Ivanka is as bad as her father, but the story about her finding out about her parents’ divorce from the newspaper has always made me feel bad, for two reasons.

Good grief that photo basically represents the Trump family. Gilded and absolutely clueless at doing their jobs.

Baby’s First Scam.

She sold homemade lemonade to her domestic staff... That’s the sort of thing villains do in fairy stories, when the story wants to establish that they are in fact a baddie... I hope she didn’t get the maids to make the lemonade first... But I imagine she probably did! The American people are all those maids now.

The second part of that lemonade stand story In The New Yorker is kind of revealing, too, but in a different way: