If Trump Wants to Remember Holocaust Victims, Then He Shouldn't Have Hired Elon Musk Who Engages in Holocaust Denial

On Wednesday, President Trump issued a proclamation on Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day. Trump stated in part:

The price to humanity of the lives lost during the Shoah can never be fully grasped or understood.  Yet, even in the wake of the Holocaust, a self-determined Jewish homeland rose from the ashes as the modern State of Israel.

Sadly, our Nation has borne witness to the worst outbreak of anti-Semitism on American soil in generations.  Nearly every day following the deadly October 7, 2023, attack on Israel, Jewish Americans were threatened on our streets and in our public square — a reminder that the poison of anti-Semitism tragically still exists.

For that reason, my Administration is proudly upholding the basic truth that anti-Semitism has no place in a civilized society.  As President, I signed an Executive Order directing the Federal Government to use all available and appropriate legal tools to combat the explosion of anti-Semitic harassment in our schools and on college campuses — including through the removal of resident aliens who violate our laws.  We are also steadfastly committed to investigating and swiftly punishing all anti-Semitic discrimination in leftist, anti-American colleges and universities. 

While there is no doubt that a significant portion of anti-Semitism in this country is inspired by people born outside the United States who hold leftist points of view, to suggest that it represents the entirety of anti-Semitism in America is profoundly and utterly dishonest.

Combating anti-Semitism means combating regardless of its source. In which case, the Trump Administration needs to get its own house in order where it concerns anti-Semitism whether its hiring Kingsley Wilson, an anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist as Pentagon deputy press secretary or Elon Musk's prominent role with DOGE while he retweets statement absolving Hitler of any responsibility for the Holocaust. 

The fact that Trump tolerates such people within his orbit make me disinclined to take anything he says about anti-Semitism with any degree of seriousness as is the case with his present tete-a-tete with Harvard. 

In other words, if you truly want to remember Holocaust victims, you don't hire someone who endorses the view that Hitler wasn't responsible for perpetrating the Holocaust let alone who tells Germans to move on from the Holocaust.