Regrets, Sean Spicer has a few.
The former top White House spokesman commiserated about his blunders behind the press podium in an interview Thursday night, conceding that he "screwed up" quite often.
"There were times when I screwed up," Spicer told conservative commentator S.E. Cupp during an interview aired on CNN Thursday evening.
The ex-press secretary, who resigned in July, recalled one particularly eyebrow-raising moment in which he tried to make a point about how evil Syrian President Bashar Assad is by inaccurately asserting that not even Adolf Hitler used chemical weapons on his own people. Spicer faced an avalanche of criticism after reporters pointed out that Hitler infamously gassed millions of Jews to death in the Holocaust.
"I screwed that up royally," Spicer told Cupp on Thursday.
Spicer also remembered feeling "really bad" after falsely asserting that the crowd attending President Donald Trump's inauguration was the "largest ever." Spicer eventually walked back those claims as it became clear that far more people had attended President Barack Obama's first inauguration.
"You realize that you're tarnishing your personal reputation, your family's reputation, your friend(s) who like and support you, some of your colleagues and ultimately this administration," Spicer said.
Spicer stepped down in seeming protest after Trump's New York financier buddy Anthony Scaramucci was hired as White House communications director. Spicer was strongly opposed to Scaramucci's hiring and had threatened to resign if he was put on staff.
But the sour taste quickly faded for Spicer: Scaramucci was fired after just 10 days on the job amid outrage over an expletive-ridden interview he gave about other White House staffers.
Conclusively, Spicer said he's proud of his tenure as press secretary.
"I honestly went out every day to do the best job I could for the president of the United States who gave me an unbelievable honor," he said.
