With the news of the mass shooting Donald Trump did post a good tweet:
The problem with the tweet is Trump, his history, and by history-I mean just yesterday, as well. For just yesterday, he blamed the synagogue for not having "protection":
It's not just something he said yesterday that makes what he said hollow, but also his reaction to the Alt-Right rally at Charlottesville nearly a year ago, as noted by The Atlantic, when he said that you had "fine people on both sides:
“I’ve condemned neo-Nazis. I’ve condemned many different groups. But not all of those people were neo-Nazis, believe me,” he said.
“You had many people in that group other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists,” Trump said. “The press has treated them absolutely unfairly.”
“You also had some very fine people on both sides,” he said.
One of the sides in which he said there were "fine people," were chanting, "Jews will not replace us":
After Trump's rant about both sides, anti-semites praised Donald Trump like David Duke:
And the white nationalist who formed the rally, Richard Spencer, who wants to make America a white ethno-state:
Or the fact that Donald Trump had evangelical pastor Robert Jeffress to pray at the opening of the new American embassy in Jerusalem, who is a religious bigot, as noted by the Haaretz, Jeffress "thinks Islam is evil, Mormons belong to a cult, Catholicism is a product of Satan's genius and 'gay is not OK.'"
In other words, our President has a connection with anti-semitism, and anti-semites that makes his tweet meaningless.
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