Donald Trump’s Record on Antisemitism
The Trump administration has cut vital funding for combating antisemitism, including:
– Freezing the Nonprofit Security Grant Program, which helps keep synagogues, day schools, Jewish community centers, and other places of worship safe from attacks.
– Canceling funding for efforts to avert hate crimes against Jewish Americans.
– Cutting funding to agencies that work to prevent antisemitism, including on college campus.
– Plans to eliminate the role of Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism, the most senior administration official focused on the threat of antisemitism.
Trump has appointed people with histories of antisemitism, white supremacy, and Christian nationalism to key positions, including:
– Elon Musk has a history of making disturbing comments about Nazis and Jews.
– FBI Director Kash Patel has ties to controversial figures known for promoting racism, antisemitism, and conspiracy theories.
– Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth supports a new Christian crusade.
– Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. peddled baseless conspiracy theories that undermined public health, including that Jews engineered COVID-19.
– Trump’s press secretary at the Department of Defense, Kingsley Wilson, a prolific purveyor of antisemitic conspiracy theories who was recently promoted
– Multiple Trump White House officials with ties to antisemitic extremists, according to a report on May 14, 2025.
Trump has a long record of antisemitism, including: accusing Jews of disloyalty and other antisemitic tropes.
– Trump has repeatedly invoked Hitler and the Nazis,
– Trump dined with Kanye West and white nationalist/Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes in 2022 at Mar-a-Lago.
– Trump said that there were “very fine people on both sides” of the 2017 Charlottesville march that featured white supremacists chanting “Jews will not replace us.”