By COLlive reporter
One friend too many…
Former US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman took the usual step of criticizing his former boss Donald Trump for hosting dinner with 2 outspoken antisemitic personalities at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida.
Over the weekend, the former president hosted a private dinner for the influential rapper and record producer Kanye West, political commentator Nick Fuentes and far-right activist Milo Yiannopoulos.
West has recently expressed antisemitic views, while Fuentes is known for his anti-Jewish comments and denying the Holocaust, in which over 6 million Jews were murdered by the Nazis and their allies.
Friedman, who worked as Trump’s attorney before being appointed as his diplomat, tweeted:
“To my friend Donald Trump, you are better than this. Even a social visit from an antisemite like Kanye West and human scum like Nick Fuentes is unacceptable.
“I urge you to throw those bums out, disavow them and relegate them to the dustbin of history where they belong.
“I condemned Barak Obama associating with Louis Farrakhan and Jeremiah Wright. This is no different. Antisemites deserve no quarter among American leaders, right or left.”
VIDEO: Former Israeli ambassador Daniel Shek speaks to i24News
Trump, who isn’t active on Twitter, responded on his Truth Social media network:
“So I help a seriously troubled man, who just happens to be black, Ye (Kanye West), who has been decimated in his business and virtually everything else, and who has always been good to me, by allowing his request for a meeting at Mar-a-Lago, alone, so that I can give him very much needed “advice.”
“He shows up with 3 people, two of which I didn’t know, the other a political person who I haven’t seen in years. I told him don’t run for office, a total waste of time, can’t win. Fake News went CRAZY!”
West, who has bipolar disorder, said in a video that he offered Trump to be his running mate and vice president. He added, “Trump is really impressed with Nick Fuentes.”
Trump recently announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for president in 2024. A new poll by Emerson College shows him with 55% support among primary voters versus Florida Governor Ron DeSantis with 25%.
In September, Friedman met with DeSantis and expressed “my unqualified support for his candidacy” for his reelection as governor. DeSantis still hasn’t announced his run for president.
VIDEO: Trump under fire for the meeting
Stop trying to be with YWN and making misleading title, all because he made a comment doesn’t mean he doesn’t get along with trump.
This hit piece against Trump is obvious. He’s the WORST antisemite, of course. He let Rabbi Rubashkin out of jail, he moved the embassy to Jerusalem, he facilitated the Abraham Accords, and even has Jewish grandchildren. Such an antisemite!
thats simply not true, trump loves yidden
trump 2024
these useless, sometimes unethical and racist actions that trump carried out do not mean that he is not an anti-Semite, and it does not mean that he wouldn’t willingly turn a blind eye towards anti-Semitic behavior.
Kanye West and a Holocaust denier were invited into his home, and you’re still defending this man?! What will it take to make some Jews wake up!!
Why don’t you go over to R. Sholom Mordechai and tell him that what Trump did for him is useless, unethical and racist. I’m sure he’ll appreciate that. (Better still, you can be thrown into jail on trumped-up charges, and contemplate how “useless” a commutation of your sentence would be.)
Next, you can go to Netanyahu and tell him the same thing.
The holocaust denier was most pointedly NOT invited. You can see from the security log that West was supposed to arrive ALONE and his entourage was a complete surprise
Only now do some Jews wake up to Trumps anti-Semitism, as well as his overall horrible behavior and actions towards countless other minorities.
Trump is a terrible person. Democrats and liberals and progressives have been telling you this for years!! Wake up!
Because core tenets of anti-Semitism include supporting Israel and freeing an unjustly imprisoned Jew, right? What, is it Opposite Day where you are?
Now, on the other hand, let’s talk about an open anti-Semite who has actual Jewish blood on his hands (in the Crown Heights riots and at Freddy’s Fashion Mart), yet who is courted by the Democrat party that you love, is invited to speak at their national conventions, etc. Any particular reason that doesn’t bother you?
“Reverend” Al Sharpton – Bitter enemy of Yidden, organized & encouraged & PAID FOR the terrifying violence in Crown Heights in ’91, owes massive amounts to the IRS but never is held responsible, and yet somehow mysteriously becomes a Democrat macher & Obama’s best friend ….. Google “Tiwana Brawley” if you are sincerely interested in finding out the Truth.
Trump is terrible but the democrats are even worse..good thing ilhan omar will be off the committee after the gop takes back congress
This gets trump out quickly to pave the way for desantis
your forgetting trump had the best economy in us history
Desantis will do a better job and having trump lose to democrats will make it much worse
WAKE UP!! Conservatives, and ESPECIALLY neo-fascists don’t care about Jews! Their entire agenda is based on WHITE SUPREMACY. Good Friedman woke up.
That would explain why conservatives support Justice Clarence Thomas and thinkers like Thomas Sowell, huh? In case you hadn’t noticed, they’re both black. Maybe it’s time for you to stop getting your news from The View, and actually view the real world.
Democrats hate jews, especially ones in Israel
That’s a new one, Trump is a white supremacist for inviting Kanye into his house! What am I missing here??
You clearly read only the headline. or read the story but didn’t understand it. So the many hundreds of thousands of Jews, skewing sharply to those more knowledgeable about Judaism and Israel, who are conservative are just … what?
Trump is an anti-semetic racist who welcomes and supports the legimizing of hate groups, regardless of who they hate, especially those that hate freedom and democracy. Nothing new here.
It’s nice to read some truth on COL every now and then
There are divrei Torah on COLLive, but apparently you don’t consider those to be truth, only the random neural firings of some commenter who repeats all the right buzzwords without an ounce of thought behind them.
IN ONE SENTENCE, I can prove CONCLUSIVELY that Trump does NOT support “the legimizing of hate groups”
Nowhere has he “had it with President Trump” he simply asked Trump to condemn them.
It’s very unfortunate that people would dump Trump so quickly and not give him the benefit of the doubt when he has gone out of his way to keep every promise he may towards Israel and more (the Golan) besides the fact that he release a Jew from prison which had no political benefit in any shape matter or form for him!
Trump is blunt but def not an antisemite
He’s the best friend we have and I’ll protect our modos from the deep state
You conveniently left out the part about how trump had no idea the others were coming
For being stupid and uninformed.
Sorry, if you’re that out of touch you don’t have what it takes to be a leader, let alone president of the United states.
Take some responsibility for a change.
So for example, a person who can barely remember where he is, and can barely string two coherent sentences together, isn’t fit to be president.
Oh, but I forgot: that’s (D)ifferent.
Orthodox Jews in this community will probably vote for trump again. The stupidity is rampant.
…the stupidity of commenters who ignore or minimize the many good things Trump did.
he did make a bad mistake, especially in not making it known immediately that his only invited guest was West, not the others. Three’s a crowd, President Trump, and when the majority of the crowd are outspoken anti-semites it doesn’t look good for their host. Should Trump have allowed the poor- excuse- for-a-decent-guest to be his dinner guest? I think not. He should have told him “Well, Mr. West, you did bring a lot of problems on yourself, but I’ll be happy to answer whatever questions you think I can help you with.” Send me a letter with those questions… Read more »
Kanye West is not a Anti-Semite, and neither is trump, watch this and see if you still think Kanye is a Anti-Semite.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4AWLcxTGZPA
At best he is a genius at making money music and fashion, and I’m sure there have been some Jews in Hollywood that have really upset him, that being said the way he went about it is wrong, but the whole Kanye is crazy and off his meds is main stream media leading the ppl to believe whatever they have on todays agenda.
The link I posted was a very coherent and enlightening podcast.
I can’t believe that any Jew would continue to support trump after this. It’s as if our own people don’t remember how the Holocaust came about. If you ever wondered what you would’ve done from 1939-1945, now is the time to prove yourself. Do the right thing. Down with the fascist, conservative, anti-Semitic party.
I wonder how Jared and Ivanka feel seeing their father welcome a Holocaust denier and an outspoke anti-Semite into his home.
If Gd forbid trump wins in 2024, just imagine who he’ll invite into the white house “without realizing.”