Trump Visits Site of the Deadliest Attack on Jews in U.S. History, Says Nothing & Takes No...

Trump Visits Site of the Deadliest Attack on Jews in U.S. History, Says Nothing and Takes No Responsibility

American Jews need to hear from the president that we are not crazy, that anti-Semitism has gotten worse, and that he bears some responsibility for it. Instead he blamed the media.

Jay Michaelson
10.30.18 8:29 PM ET

No human being is perfect. We all make mistakes, and look back on our actions, occasionally, with remorse.

From this ineluctable fact of human life, arguably, springs one of the sources of religion itself: the knowledge that we cause harm, deliberately or inadvertently, and we feel sorry, and we don’t know what to do. Elaborate theologies of sin and forgiveness, reward and punishment, issue from this brute reality of the human condition. But not Donald Trump.

What I, and I think many Jews, wanted to hear from President Trump, as he visited the site of the worst massacre of Jews in American history, was, if not an outright apology, at least some taking of responsibility, some expression of remorse.

What we got, publicly least, was bupkes: nothing.

Remorse for what? For not condemning white supremacy except when pushed to do so. For occasionally supporting it outright, through retweets and race-baiting. For exaggerating the dangers of immigration to win votes. For stirring up hatred and rage at a series of otherwise pointless rallies and in thousands of incendiary tweets. For tolerating among his supporters both overt and covert anti-Semites, and occasionally dog-whistling to them with ads targeting George Soros or Michael Bloomberg. For spinning baseless conspiracy theories, attacking the media, and attacking Hollywood—all of which are fodder for the worst of anti-Semitic imagination. For allowing anti-Semitic attacks to rise 60 percent between 2016 and 2017 and failing to take a single action to counteract them.

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