President Donald Trump's message came two days before he is to visit the Holocaust Museum in Washington. | AP Photo Trump delivers Holocaust message to World Jewish Congress

President Donald Trump delivered a video message to the World Jewish Congress Plenary Assembly on Sunday for Yom HaShoah, Israel’s day of remembrance for the victims and heroes of the Holocaust, where he praised the organization for its "heroic history fighting for the Jewish people."

“We mourn, we remember, we pray, and we pledge never again, I say it, never again," the president said. "The mind cannot fathom the pain, the horror and the loss. Six million Jews, two-thirds of the Jews in Europe, murdered by the Nazi genocide. They were murdered by an evil that words cannot describe and that the human heart cannot bear.”


Trump's message came two days before he is to visit the Holocaust Museum in Washington.

At the start of his presidency, Trump and his administration came under fire for omitting mention of the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust in his Holocaust Remembrance Day statement.

On April 11, press secretary Sean Spicer also received backlash after he alleged that Syrian President Bashar Assad, who used chemical weapons on his own people, was worse than Adolf Hitler, “who didn’t even sink to using chemical weapons.” Hitler, however, is historically linked to the use of chemical weapons, most notably through the Holocaust.

That same day he made the statement, Spicer went on several television networks to apologize for his statement, saying he "mistakenly used an inappropriate, insensitive reference to the Holocaust."

On Sunday, Trump extended a welcome to the World Jewish Congress, meeting in New York.

“In the memory of those who lost, we renew our commitment and our determination not to disregard the warnings of our own times," Trump said in his statement. "We must stamp out prejudice and anti-Semitism everywhere it is found. We must defeat terrorism, and we must not ignore the threats of a regime that talks openly of Israel’s destruction. We cannot let that ever even be thought of.”

The president also reiterated America's support for Israel.

"To all of you tonight, who have come from around the world, let it be known, America stands strong with the State of Israel," Trump said.