President Donald Trump was called out after he diverted from a conversation about Israeli hostages being held by Hamas and commended Nazis who he claimed showed "love" to Holocaust victims.
Trump made the remarks during a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office after he was asked by reporters about his plan to secure the release of the 59 Israeli hostages being held in Gaza by Hamas.
He said:
“I said to them [the former hostages], was there any sign of love? Did the...Hamas, show any signs of like, help? Or liking you? Did they wink?"
"Did they give you a piece of bread, extra? Did they give you a meal on the side? … Like, you know, what happened in Germany, what happened elsewhere? People would try and help people that were in unbelievable distress. They said no."
You can hear what she said in the video below.
The Holocaust was the state-sponsored, systematic persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its allies from 1933 to 1945, across Europe and North Africa. The peak of this violence took place during World War II. By the war’s end in 1945, nearly two out of every three European Jews had been killed by the Nazis and their collaborators.
The Nazis believed in the racial superiority of Germans and saw Jews as a threat to the so-called "German racial community." While Jews were the primary victims, the Nazis also targeted other groups for persecution and execution. These included Romani people, people with disabilities, certain Slavic peoples (especially Poles and Russians), and Black individuals, all of whom the Nazis considered biologically inferior.
The regime also persecuted various groups for political, ideological, or behavioral reasons. This included Communists, Socialists, Jehovah’s Witnesses, gay men, and those labeled by the Nazis as “asocials” or “professional criminals.”
Historians estimate that approximately six million Jews were murdered during the Holocaust. This figure includes about 2.5 million killed in extermination camps, two million killed in mass shootings, and over 800,000 who died in ghettos.
While the Holocaust primarily refers to the murder of European Jews, Nazi Germany and its collaborators also killed millions of non-Jews. Among the victims were seven million Soviet citizens, three million Soviet prisoners of war, 1.8 million non-Jewish Polish civilians, between 250,000 and 500,000 Romani, and 250,000 individuals with physical or mental disabilities.
There was nothing "loving" about any of this.
Many have condemned Trump's remarks.
These comments shouldn't come as a surprise considering Trump once hosted white nationalist and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes, along with rapper Ye, at his Mar-a-Lago estate.
Ye and Fuentes stated that they both met with Trump at the time; Trump was apparently "impressed" by Fuentes in particular.
A source familiar with the dinner confirmed to CNN that Trump met with Fuentes and Ye. The rapper had been embroiled in controversy after repeating antisemitic conspiracy theories and making other offensive remarks during a podcast appearance in October 2022.
