'We Will Stamp Out Prejudice': Trump Blasts Anti-Jewish Threats During Memorial Ceremony

[DonViejo]

Source: Mediaite


by Ken Meyer | 12:49 pm, April 25th, 2017

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President Donald Trump spoke at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Days of Remembrance Ceremony today, and used his remarks to slam those perpetuating anti-Semitism and threats against the Jewish people.

The Trump Administration has repeatedly faced blowback due to several instances where critics ripped on the White House for not being particularly knowledgable or sympathetic about Jewish issues. In today’s remarks, Trump reiterated his pledge to support Israel, and recalled the horrors and suffering Jews experienced in the Holocaust.

Eventually, Trump turned his ire towards Holocaust-deniers, saying they were “filled with total hate.” Trump also used his address to talk about those who have threatened Israel with destruction.

“Those who deny the Holocaust are an accomplice to this horrible evil, and we’ll never be silent,” Trump said. “We will confront anti-Semitism. We will stamp out prejudice, we will condemn hatred, we will bear witness, and we will act.”

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[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Wonder how his alt-right supporters will take this?

[cstanleytech]

5. Oh they will excuse him and say something absurd like hes being forced to say this to appease

the secret jewish government or some such bullshit but the fact is no one forces him to say anything though in this case he is simply probably saying it because he hates looking bad to the public and he also gets free PR which we all know he craves like a horse loves sweets.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

8. That's sort of what I assumed.

They might excuse him - "He had to say that because politics."

[Juliusseizure]

7. He'll shift when he addresses them

Follow the narcissism- he'll go on Alex Jones and become racist again. Then he'll deny he said what he said and blame the media for fake news. Rinse repeat.

[Scoopster]

2. Hey Donnie

Why don't you start doing that by getting rid of the white nationalists in your goddamn administration...

[irisblue]

19. No lie. And welcome to DU

[atreides1]

3. All Hype and PR

The man doesn't believe a damn word he's said in the last few days, because they weren't his words! Someone else wrote them and he was rehearsed!

He was speaking in his usual monotone fashion, something he does when he's not happy with being made to say something, that wasn't his idea and did not include the words great, marvelous and fantastic at least 6 times each!!!

[sakabatou]

6. Agreed

[msongs]

4. sounds like somebody else wrote that speech. nt

[Juliusseizure]

14. "We will bear witness" is not a Trump line

This could have been advised by Idonka and written by her or Kushner, plagiarized from prior Holocaust memorial speeches.

[rpannier]

32. Idonka. I thought it was I-a-dork-ah

[BumRushDaShow]

9. To quote Maxine Waters

"I don't believe anything that Donald Trump says..."

[IronLionZion]

10. Confront it by encouraging it?

He's already deflected claims during his campaign that he could possibly be promoting anti-Semitism since his daughter and son-in-law and their kids are Jewish.

[MFM008]

11. so this toad

reads the words Jared probably wrote,
they mean nothing to him.
nothing.

[christx30]

12. "We will stamp out marijuana use," Cheech Marin, 1975

n/t

[Egnever]

31. ..

[benpollard]

13. Only if he can make money from it

Trump doesn't do anything unless it props up his ego or he capitalizes on it financially. So, no, he won't be doing anything about antisemitism.

Besides, his base is made up of white-supremacists. They would like a repeat of '30s, '40s Germany in the U.S.

[bucolic_frolic]

15. Talks out both sides of his mouth

on any given day

Today it means in this instance only

If he meant it, or understood it, he wouldn't have appointed
J. Sessions

[heaven05]

16. he is responsible

for the upsurge in bigotry, sexism and racism. HITF is this boy posing as potus able to spew this horseshit? Oh I forgot he got his playbook from ivanka, jared and stupid ass bannon who's still there and I have no doubts, still influencing the direction of the boy-potus and his administration. The obvious hypocrisy is disgusting. I don't believe a word of this.

[dalton99a]

17. You should start with yourself, asshole.

[Paladin]

18. To be honest, I'm surprised he mentioned the anti-Semitism. (nt)

[Behind the Aegis]

20. Yeah, whatever.

I don't believe a thing he says. He cozies up to Russia and the far-white (no, that is not a spelling error), and then says he will fight anti-Semitism? BULLSHIT!

[SummerSnow]

21. Then that means he will fire the anti-Semite in his midst...Bannon

Won't happen though

[SummerSnow]

22. Confront it?

This is confronting it... " Oh this is anti-Semetism right here, I'm calling it out.
"Well what about stamping it out?
" Hey I called it out, leave me alone"

Stamping out means you have to make laws to stamp it out and he is not going to upset his white supremacist base

[truthisfreedom]

23. Hair furor will stamp his widdow foot!

Stamp stamp!

[EllieBC]

24. Sure he will. Antisemitism had been blossoming on US campuses.

Seems like both sides have a little problem with Jew hatred. And both have no problem with the problem of it.

[Behind the Aegis]

25. Ding! Ding! Ding!

And in for the win...EllieBC!

The only time either seems to have a problem with anti-Semitism is when the other side is doing it.

[EllieBC]

27. I was just wondering where you were!

I haven't seen you post in a bit!

[Behind the Aegis]

30. I have been here, just have to look below the din.

Yom HaShoah --the 6 million Jews gone and those who fought to prevent it

And they rose...and fought back! 74 years ago, today, the Jews said, "NO!"

[hatrack]

26. Nice tan goggles, fuckstick . . .

And shut your sphincter-like piehole, you clown. No one fucking believes you.

[EthanBlue]

28. That's nice

You can start by holding those in your own party saying these things accountable. You, sir, have no problem saying whatever the heck you want. So start by naming names. Start by calling them horrible, frauds, and other euphemisms that you tend to use. Until then this is just lip service.

[TalenaGor]

29. Oh no he means they are going to stamp out membership cards lol

and he will bear false witness lol

[Paladin]

33. Remember the Good Old Days (a few weeks ago)?

Remember when a President making an anti-Semitism statement barely made the news, because that's what Presidents did, as a routine matter? And yet there was Chuck Todd on MTP yesterday, whispering "Thank you for those words, Mr. President." You need any further evidence of just how far and fast things have gone into the toilet in this country? There's your evidence.