{"id":10915,"date":"2025-06-03T20:10:04","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T20:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jewishpublicaffairs.org\/?p=10915"},"modified":"2025-06-09T20:12:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T20:12:26","slug":"nyt-denouncing-antisemitism-trump-also-fans-its-flames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jewishpublicaffairs.org\/news\/nyt-denouncing-antisemitism-trump-also-fans-its-flames\/","title":{"rendered":"NYT: Denouncing Antisemitism, Trump Also Fans Its Flames"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/06\/03\/us\/politics\/trump-antisemitism.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare\">Originally published by The New York Times.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Peter Baker<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In the Oval Office one day last week, President Trump renewed his <a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/05\/22\/us\/politics\/harvard-university-trump.html\">no-holds-barred attack<\/a> on the nation\u2019s oldest university. \u201cThey\u2019re totally antisemitic at Harvard,\u201d he declared.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Just 10 hours later, he posted <a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/114588777076099501\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an image of himself<\/a> striding down a street with the caption, \u201cHe\u2019s on a mission from God and nothing can stop what is coming.\u201d Shown in the shadows, watching with approval, was a cartoon figure commonly seen as an antisemitic symbol.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The appearance of the figure, the alt-right mascot Pepe the Frog, was the latest example of Mr. Trump\u2019s <a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/05\/09\/us\/antisemitism-republicans-trump.html\">extensive history<\/a> of amplifying white supremacist figures and symbols, even as he now presents himself as a champion for Jewish students oppressed by what he says is a wave of hatred on American college campuses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">As a younger man, Mr. Trump kept <a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2015\/08\/donald-trump-marie-brenner-ivana-divorce\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a book of Adolf Hitler\u2019s speeches<\/a> in a cabinet by his bed, according to his first wife. During his first term as president, he <a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/10\/27\/us\/politics\/trump-fascism.html\">expressed admiration<\/a> for some aspects of the Nazi F\u00fchrer\u2019s leadership, according to his chief White House aide at the time. In the past few years, he has dined at his Florida estate <a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/12\/01\/us\/politics\/trump-extremism-candidacy.html\">with a Holocaust denier<\/a> while his New Jersey golf club has hosted events at which <a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2024\/09\/12\/nx-s1-5107435\/trump-capitol-riot-antisemitic-bedminster\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a Nazi sympathizer spoke<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn\" data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Since reclaiming the White House, Mr. Trump has brought into his orbit and his administration people with records of advancing antisemitic tropes, including a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/national-security\/dod-deputy-press-secretary-history-tweets-racist-antisemitic-conspirac-rcna195005\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">spokeswoman at the Pentagon<\/a>. His vice president, secretary of state and top financial backer have <a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/15\/world\/europe\/vance-musk-nazis-afd-munich.html\">offered support to a far-right German political party<\/a> that has played down atrocities committed by the Nazis. And just last week, Mr. Trump picked a former right-wing podcaster who has <a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/trump-administration\/trump-nominates-former-podcast-host-history-inflammatory-comments-top-rcna210041\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">defended a prominent white supremacist<\/a> to head the Office of Special Counsel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Even some prominent critics of Harvard\u2019s handling of antisemitism on its campus find Mr. Trump to be an unpalatable and unconvincing ally. In their view, his real motivations in using the power of the federal government to crush Harvard, seen by the political right as a bastion of America\u2019s liberal, multicultural order, have little to do with concern about a hostile environment for Jewish students.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt is hard to see this as anything other than pretextual,\u201d said Lawrence H. Summers, a former president of Harvard who has accused his university of being slow to denounce antisemitism and faulted its awarding of an honorary degree last week to Elaine H. Kim, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theeditors.com\/p\/harvard-gives-honorary-degree-to-boycott-israel-advocate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an Israel boycott supporter<\/a>. \u201cThere are valid grounds\u201d for \u201cchallenging Harvard\u2019s approach,\u201d he added, \u201cbut it is hard to imagine a less credible challenger than President Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He noted top Trump officials\u2019 embrace of Alternative for Germany, or AfD, the far-right party <a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/05\/02\/world\/europe\/germany-afd-far-right-extremist.html\">classified by the country\u2019s intelligence service<\/a> last month as an extremist organization for trivializing the Holocaust and reviving Nazi slogans. And he argued that Mr. Trump\u2019s order <a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/05\/22\/us\/harvard-international-students-trump.html\">barring international students from Harvard<\/a> would hurt Israeli students more than anything Harvard had done.<\/p>\n<p>Amy Spitalnick, the chief executive of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, a nonprofit group that promotes an inclusive American democracy, said that \u201cif this administration were serious about countering antisemitism, it would not be appointing antisemitic extremists to senior positions\u201d and \u201cit would not be normalizing antisemitic conspiracy theories that have fueled attacks on Jews and others.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The White House rejected criticism of the president\u2019s past comments or appointments. \u201cPresident Trump has done more than any other president in modern history to stop antisemitic violence and hold corrupt institutions, like Harvard, accountable for allowing anti-American radicalism to escalate,\u201d said Taylor Rogers, a White House spokeswoman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump has long insisted that he is <a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2017\/02\/16\/donald-trump-i-am-the-least-anti-semitic-racist-person-that-youve-ever-seen.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cthe least antisemitic person that you\u2019ve ever seen in your entire life,\u201d<\/a> often pointing to <a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/11\/17\/style\/ivanka-trump-jared-kushner.html\">his own family<\/a> as evidence. His daughter Ivanka Trump converted to Judaism to marry Jared Kushner, an Orthodox Jew and descendant of Holocaust survivors, and the couple are raising their children in the Jewish tradition. \u201cMy father-in-law is not an antisemite,\u201d <a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/07\/07\/us\/politics\/jared-kushner-defends-donald-trump-his-father-in-law-on-bias-charge.html\">Mr. Kushner said<\/a> during Mr. Trump\u2019s first presidential campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The president\u2019s supporters argue that Mr. Trump has a strong record of support for Israel. They cite his decision to <a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/12\/06\/world\/middleeast\/trump-jerusalem-israel-capital.html\">move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem<\/a>, his recognition of <a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/03\/25\/us\/politics\/benjamin-netanyahu-donald-trump-meeting.html\">Israeli authority over the Golan Heights<\/a>, his support for <a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/21\/world\/middleeast\/west-bank-settlers-trump.html\">Jewish settlements in the West Bank<\/a> and his push for Arab states to <a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/09\/15\/us\/politics\/trump-israel-peace-emirates-bahrain.html\">establish diplomatic relations with Israel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump, based on some of the people he has met with, is an imperfect carrier of an antisemitic message,\u201d said Ari Fleischer, a former White House press secretary for President George W. Bush who sits on the board of the Republican Jewish Coalition. \u201cBut the actions he has taken and the language he has used to protect the Jewish community are second to none. He is a fierce and strong voice on the side of America\u2019s Jewish citizenry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump on Monday denounced the weekend attack on a pro-Israel demonstration in Boulder, Colo., by a man yelling \u201cfree Palestine,\u201d writing in a social media post that it <a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/114614695646992423\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cWILL NOT BE TOLERATED.\u201d<\/a> But he made <a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/06\/02\/us\/politics\/trump-jews-antisemitism-colorado-attack.html\">no mention of antisemitism or Jews<\/a>, focusing instead on the arrested man\u2019s immigration status.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Last week, Mr. Trump named <a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/05\/29\/us\/politics\/ingrassia-office-special-counsel.html\">Paul Ingrassia<\/a> to lead the Office of Special Counsel, an independent agency fighting corruption and partisan politics in the federal work force. Mr. Ingrassia has praised the white supremacist Nick Fuentes, a Holocaust denier, as <a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PaulIngrassia\/status\/1642900487664984066\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201ca real dissident of authoritarianism,\u201d<\/a> and lamented the arrest of Timothy Hale-Cusanelli, a Nazi sympathizer who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Mr. Ingrassia <a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/05\/14\/nx-s1-5387299\/trump-white-house-antisemitism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told NPR last month<\/a> that he denounces hateful remarks and denied being \u201csome sort of extremist.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn\" data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Particularly striking last week was the president\u2019s social media post of a manufactured noir image of himself marching down a darkened city street \u201con a mission from God.\u201d To the side was Pepe the Frog, a cartoon character that <a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.adl.org\/resources\/hate-symbol\/pepe-frog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to the Anti-Defamation League<\/a> has been adopted by alt-right antisemites as a symbol of white supremacy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"Dropzone-12\">\n<div id=\"story-ad-4-wrapper\" class=\"css-aporl1\">\n<div id=\"story-ad-4-slug\" class=\"css-1ev7j75\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It is not clear if Mr. Trump noticed the Pepe the Frog image in the shadows of the illustration, which was originally posted by a follower of Mr. Fuentes. The White House did not respond to a question about why he shared the image or express regret about sharing a post with an antisemitic symbol.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">People who have known Mr. Trump going back to his days in real estate in New York said he has long subscribed to Jewish stereotypes. \u201cTrump regularly talked about \u2018the Jews\u2019 as if they were a bloc,\u201d Barbara A. Res, a longtime executive at Mr. Trump\u2019s firm who worked with him for 18 years, wrote in a memoir. \u201cHe thought Jewish people were all crafty, unsavory, and good with money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Jack O\u2019Donnell, who was president of the Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City, N.J., and later wrote his own sharply critical book about Mr. Trump, recalled that the future president objected to having Black accountants. \u201cThe only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day,\u201d he quoted Mr. Trump saying.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump has expressed an interest in Hitler. In a 1990 interview, Mr. Trump said <a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2015\/08\/donald-trump-marie-brenner-ivana-divorce\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">he had a copy of \u201cMein Kampf,\u201d<\/a> though his first wife, Ivana Trump, said it was actually \u201cMy New Order,\u201d a collection of Hitler speeches. As president, Mr. Trump\u2019s chief of staff, John F. Kelly, recalled that Mr. Trump said during his first term that <a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/jul\/06\/donald-trump-hitler-michael-bender-book\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cHitler did a lot of good things,\u201d<\/a> like bolstering Germany\u2019s economy and complained that American military officers were not loyal enough to him. <a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2022\/08\/15\/inside-the-war-between-trump-and-his-generals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cWhy can\u2019t you be like the German generals?\u201d<\/a> the president asked, meaning those who reported to Hitler, according to Mr. Kelly, a retired Marine general. Mr. Trump has denied making those comments or reading \u201cMein Kampf.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">During his first campaign for president in 2016, Mr. Trump was slow to renounce <a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.nytimes.com\/www.nytimes.com\/politics\/first-draft\/2016\/02\/28\/donald-trump-declines-to-disavow-david-duke\/\">support from David Duke<\/a>, the former Ku Klux Klan leader, and posted an image <a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/07\/04\/us\/politics\/donald-trumps-star-of-david-tweet-came-from-a-fringe-website-a-report-says.html\">using a Star of David<\/a> to accuse Hillary Clinton of being corrupted by money. After winning, Mr. Trump disturbed many of his own advisers when he said there were <a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/08\/15\/us\/politics\/trump-charlottesville-white-nationalists.html\">\u201cvery fine people on both sides\u201d<\/a> of a 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., where torch-bearing marchers chanted \u201cJews will not replace us,\u201d though Mr. Trump also denounced neo-Nazis at the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">After leaving office, Mr. Trump <a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/12\/01\/us\/politics\/trump-extremism-candidacy.html\">had dinner at his Mar-a-Lago estate<\/a>in Florida in 2022 with Mr. Fuentes, who attended the Charlottesville rally, and the rap star Kanye West, who goes by the name Ye and has repeatedly made antisemitic statements. Mr. Fuentes has compared himself to Hitler and expressed hope for \u201ca total Aryan victory\u201d while Mr. West said shortly after visiting Mar-a-Lago that \u201cI like Hitler\u201d and that \u201cHitler has a lot of redeeming qualities.\u201d Mr. Trump said he did not know Mr. West was bringing Mr. Fuentes to dinner but did not denounce him after learning of his past.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Twice last summer, Mr. Trump\u2019s golf club in Bedminster, N.J., hosted speeches by Mr. Hale-Cusanelli, who has posed for pictures looking like Hitler and has said that <a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2024\/09\/12\/nx-s1-5107435\/trump-capitol-riot-antisemitic-bedminster\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cHitler should have finished the job,\u201d<\/a> according to federal prosecutors. Mr. Hale-Cusanelli, who was <a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-dc\/pr\/new-jersey-man-sentenced-prison-actions-related-capitol-breach\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sentenced to four years in prison<\/a> for his involvement in the assault on the Capitol before Mr. Trump pardoned the attackers, was described in court papers as a \u201cwhite supremacist and Nazi sympathizer\u201d who compared Jews to a \u201cplague of locusts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Trump campaign said at the time that Mr. Trump did not attend the Bedminster events and was not aware of Mr. Hale-Cusanelli or his comments. Mr. Hale-Cusanelli has denied being a Nazi sympathizer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Now that he is back in office, Mr. Trump has not seen allegations of extremism as disqualifying, even as he accosts Harvard for it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">His newly promoted Defense Department press secretary, Kingsley Wilson, has <a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/03\/06\/nx-s1-5319995\/kingsley-wilson-antisemitic-comments-defense-department-pentagon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">echoed antisemitic extremists<\/a> who have asserted that Leo Frank, a Jewish man lynched in Georgia in 1915 on what historians have called false charges of raping and murdering a 13-year-old girl, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KingsleyCortes\/status\/1824635737276285150\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">really was guilty<\/a>. She has also <a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KingsleyCortes\/status\/1807783240041693216\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">endorsed the great replacement conspiracy theory<\/a> that white Christians are being intentionally supplanted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ed Martin, who had been chosen by Mr. Trump to be the U.S. attorney for Washington, ran into Republican opposition in part because he had hosted Mr. Hale-Cusanelli on his podcast, calling him <a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/dc-md-va\/2025\/04\/25\/trump-martin-antisemitism-apology-hale-cusanelli\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201can extraordinary man\u201d<\/a> and giving him an award. In a futile effort to salvage his nomination, Mr. Martin apologized and denounced Mr. Hale-Cusanelli\u2019s comments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Bowing to pressure from Republican senators, Mr. Trump <a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/05\/08\/us\/politics\/ed-martin-justice-department-republicans.html\">withdrew the nomination<\/a>. But the president expressed no concern about Mr. Martin\u2019s praise of a Nazi sympathizer. Instead, he gave him another senior Justice Department position that does not require Senate confirmation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published by The New York Times. By Peter Baker In the Oval Office one day last week, President Trump renewed his no-holds-barred attack on the nation\u2019s oldest university. \u201cThey\u2019re totally antisemitic at Harvard,\u201d he declared. Just 10 hours later, he posted an image of himself striding down a street with the caption, \u201cHe\u2019s on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>NYT: Denouncing Antisemitism, Trump Also Fans Its Flames - Jewish Council for Public Affairs<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jewishpublicaffairs.org\/news\/nyt-denouncing-antisemitism-trump-also-fans-its-flames\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NYT: Denouncing Antisemitism, Trump Also Fans Its Flames - Jewish Council for Public Affairs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Originally published by The New York Times. 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