On This Day In 2017
Trump refuses to mention Jews on Holocaust Remembrance Day
Trump’s personal biases are stunning
OTDI 2017, Trump released a statement about Holocaust Remembrance Day that neglected to mention…Jews. The Nazis killed 6 million Jewish people in the Holocaust, in one of humanity’s most heinous episodes.
More than one out of every three Jews in the world were rounded up by German soldiers and shipped on cargo trains to industrial-sized killing “camps,” where they were quickly murdered and incinerated or heaved into mass graves.
Even now, 85 years later, the global population of Jews is still lower than it was before the Holocaust.
So Trump couldn’t bring himself to mention Jews on the one day our government has set aside to remember this unspeakably evil horror? What is the matter with him? It turns out Trump even threw away a prepared version of the speech which DID mention Jews.
The head of the Anti-Defamation League called it: “Puzzling and troubling.” Others who have followed Trump’s decades of racist words and actions called it: “Not surprising.”
The Guardian provides Trump's full (but wildly incomplete) statement:
The Washington Post compares it to statements by previous presidents of both parties
Politico reveals that Trump nixed a State Department version which did in fact mention Jews
Sen. Tim Kaine accuses Trump of Holocaust denial on Meet the Press:
Trump refuses to mention Jews on Holocaust Remembrance Day