Donald Trump Jr.'s comments took off in the national media. | AP Photo Trump Jr. acknowledges gas chamber remark as 'poor choice of words, perhaps'

While calling his "gas chamber" comment earlier this week a "poor choice of words, perhaps," Donald Trump Jr. on Friday sharply rejected the idea that it was a reference to the Holocaust.

Speaking to a Philadelphia radio station on Wednesday, Trump's eldest son remarked that the media has let Hillary Clinton get away with "every indiscrepancy, on every lie, on every DNC game trying to get Bernie Sanders out of this thing." He added, "If Republicans were doing that, they’d be warming up the gas chamber right now.”


The comments took off in the national media on Thursday, with the Trump campaign pushing back on those who construed it as a reference to the Holocaust.

"I didn't say anything about the Holocaust. I was talking about media bias. I was talking about if you're a conservative, it's essentially capital punishment," Trump Jr. told George Stephanopoulos on ABC's "Good Morning America," noting that he made similar comments to CNN's Jake Tapper about the "electric chair."

"It was poor choice of words, perhaps, but in no way, shape or form was I ever even remotely talking about the Holocaust. I wouldn't do it. I think that's disgusting. It's not my style," Trump Jr. said, later referencing his sister Ivanka, who converted to Orthodox Judaism upon her marriage to husband Jared Kushner.

Trump Jr. then added, "half of my best men in my wedding and the bridesmaids of my wedding were Jewish. I would never do that."

"But what it really, unfortunately, it almost proves the point," he continued. "I say something, rather than the media asking me about it, rather than saying, hey, Don is this were you talking about the Holocaust, they jump, oh, my God, you were talking about the Holocaust."