# Trump's Star of David tweet **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [July 4, 2016, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-star-of-david-tweet/759090 "2016-07-04T19:58:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2016, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-star-of-david-tweet/759090/81 "2016-07-05T18:23:00Z")
[Trump and the star don’t matter because Democrats supported slavery 150 years ago.](http://www.rawstory.com/2016/07/cnn-segment-goes-off-the-rails-when-trump-backer-defends-anti-semitic-tweet-by-blaming-dems-for-slavery/) ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2016, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-star-of-david-tweet/759090/82 "2016-07-05T18:26:22Z")
[David Duke loves the star of David tweet, and is celebrating that the “hidden hand” (code words for the Jews who run the world) has been exposed.](http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/david-duke-loved-trump-star-tweet) ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2016, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-star-of-david-tweet/759090/83 "2016-07-05T18:32:15Z")
This is typical of those things where the “wiggle-room” is not only built into the original but used to attack the people who point out the problem. “But we didn’t mean _that_. You’re the one with the problem for thinking we did.” “Dog whistle” doesn’t cut it anymore. I suggest “Weasel Whistle”. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2016, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-star-of-david-tweet/759090/84 "2016-07-05T18:38:35Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Trump and the star don’t matter because Democrats supported slavery 150 years ago.](http://www.rawstory.com/2016/07/cnn-segment-goes-off-the-rails-when-trump-backer-defends-anti-semitic-tweet-by-blaming-dems-for-slavery/) “… a lot of people are afraid to say: Osama bin Laden is an Uncle Tom!” “Good GOD! I can’t even figure out who that’s offensive to!” - Saturday Night Live We’ve apparently reached a point where satire is no longer possible. ---
**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2016, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-star-of-david-tweet/759090/85 "2016-07-05T18:40:04Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > “Dog whistle” doesn’t cut it anymore. I suggest “Weasel Whistle”. Or foghorn. > [@you\_with\_the\_face](#): > > [That’s](http://www.forbes.com/sites/erincarlyle/2016/04/04/new-survey-suggests-trumps-presidential-campaign-will-hurt-bookings-at-trump-hotels-golf-courses/#61de572860cd) not [what](http://www.forbes.com/sites/erincarlyle/2016/04/04/new-survey-suggests-trumps-presidential-campaign-will-hurt-bookings-at-trump-hotels-golf-courses/#61de572860cd) the data [suggests](http://www.ibtimes.com/donald-trumps-campaign-hurting-his-business-trump-hotel-bookings-plummet-amid-insults-2374120). > > Investors factor in what how they think the buying public will put their dollars towards. If they think spenders will associate the Trump brand with lies, litigiousness, swindling, vulgarity, and bigotry, then they are going to back away from him. ## It’s hard to say really. Trump has lost some business, but if he can capture 20% of 35% of 35% (or 1% of 35% of 35% if he’s running investment scams), then he has acquired a decent market base. [Jeet Heer](https://newrepublic.com/article/134841/method-trumps-twitter-madness) provides some useful background. Trump retweets stuff from white supremacists [a lot](http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/07/03/3795294/3-white-supremacists-twitter-inspire-donald-trump/). They form a core of his base. This latest bigotry should not be viewed in isolation: [INDENT][INDENT][INDENT]Indeed, Trump’s twitter feed is a hub of white nationalist activity that extends beyond accounts like @whitegenocideTM, so much so that according to research done during January 2016 by the Twitter analytical firm Little Bird, 62 percent of those re-tweeted by Trump during that month follow multiple white-supremacist accounts. The Star of David image in question originally appeared on June 15 on a now-deleted racist account called @FishBoneHead1. A week later, it appeared on /pol/, a den of the alt-right. The nature of @FishBoneHead1 can be gauged by a tweet the account sent out in which a photo of Washington Post reporter Ruth Marcus was altered to grotesquely enlarge her nose. [/INDENT][/INDENT][/INDENT] Now pause for a moment. Trump is followed by a lot of people. How often has he mistakenly retweeted something sympathetic by an anti-Trumper? I’m pretty confident that he or his staff does at least a quick review of posting history before he forwards this stuff. We can tell by the error pattern. Jeet: [The Method to Trump’s Twitter Madness | The New Republic](https://newrepublic.com/article/134841/method-trumps-twitter-madness) ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2016, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-star-of-david-tweet/759090/86 "2016-07-05T18:49:30Z")
[Paul Ryan seems to think that it was anti-Semitic.](http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/paul-ryan-trump-tweet-225099?cmpid=sf) ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2016, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-star-of-david-tweet/759090/87 "2016-07-05T18:52:40Z")
> [@Tithonus](#): > > someone on Trump’s staff retweeted it without thinking twice about it either. That is my opinion, too. He and his staff are stupid. ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2016, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-star-of-david-tweet/759090/88 "2016-07-05T19:01:01Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Trump and the star don’t matter because Democrats supported slavery 150 years ago.](http://www.rawstory.com/2016/07/cnn-segment-goes-off-the-rails-when-trump-backer-defends-anti-semitic-tweet-by-blaming-dems-for-slavery/) I am fairly certain that Jeffrey Lord is unhinged. ETA: The ONLY exposure I have had to him is as Trump’s surrogate on CNN. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2016, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-star-of-david-tweet/759090/89 "2016-07-05T19:03:06Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > That is my opinion, too. He and his staff are stupid. New Trump hat slogan: “Not racist. Just stupid.” ---
**Author:** ![lance\_strongarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/87869e/32.png) [@lance\_strongarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lance_strongarm)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2016, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-star-of-david-tweet/759090/90 "2016-07-05T19:09:50Z")
> [@Tithonus](#): > > A Star of David is almost never filled in. Why is this one filled in? Because a fucking anti-semite filled it in and didn’t care that it’s not usually filled in? > [@](#): > > A Star of David is typically comprised of two clearly delineated overlapping triangles. Why isn’t this one? Because fucking anti-semites don’t know and don’t care that it’s usually two overlapping triangles? > [@](#): > > A Star of David is never tilted. Why is this one tilted? Because a fucking anti-semite…are you getting the point yet? > [@](#): > > And why would some random anti-semite on the internet bother to be coy? So he can get his material tweeted out by people like Trump? > [@](#): > > If, as you’d have us believe, this poster was created by anti-semites for anti-semites, why didn’t the creator just swipe the Star of David straight off the Israeli flag? . The source of the image was traced to an anti-semitic message board. Duh. ---
**Author:** ![lance\_strongarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/87869e/32.png) [@lance\_strongarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lance_strongarm)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2016, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-star-of-david-tweet/759090/91 "2016-07-05T19:15:21Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Paul Ryan seems to think that it was anti-Semitic.](http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/paul-ryan-trump-tweet-225099?cmpid=sf) Ryan seems to think that as long as he keeps admitting that Trump is a shameless racist bastard, it’s okay to support him. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2016, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-star-of-david-tweet/759090/92 "2016-07-05T19:17:29Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > New Trump hat slogan: > > “Not racist. Just stupid.” I wonder if he will pay us for that? ---
**Author:** ![lance\_strongarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/87869e/32.png) [@lance\_strongarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lance_strongarm)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2016, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-star-of-david-tweet/759090/93 "2016-07-05T19:35:21Z")
> [@Captain\_Amazing](#): > > I think what’s most likely is: > > 1. The guy who made the original image intended anti-Semitic connections. > 2. Trump, or somebody from his campaign, found the image, thought, “Cool, attack on Hillary”, and posted it to twitter, not necessarily knowing or caring about the source. > 3. When it was pointed out, the Trump campaign changes the star to a circle, because, “Hey, where ever it comes from, attack on Hillary!”, and, as they always do, rather than admit they screwed up, because they see that as a sign of weakness, go on the attack. Yep. Followed by: 1. They keep getting harangued for it until they finally retract it anyway, but only after the damage is done. 2. They don’t learn from that experience and do it again. Trump may not be anti-semitic, but he is recklessly happy to welcome and enable those who are instead of standing up to them, and that’s incredibly irresponsible as well as wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2016, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-star-of-david-tweet/759090/94 "2016-07-05T19:42:32Z")
> [@Measure\_for\_Measure](#): > > … > [Jeet Heer](https://newrepublic.com/article/134841/method-trumps-twitter-madness) provides some useful background. Trump retweets stuff from white supremacists [a lot](http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/07/03/3795294/3-white-supremacists-twitter-inspire-donald-trump/). They form a core of his base. … Now pause for a moment. Trump is followed by a lot of people. How often has he mistakenly retweeted something sympathetic by an anti-Trumper? I’m pretty confident that he or his staff does at least a quick review of posting history before he forwards this stuff. We can tell by the error pattern. > Jeet: [The Method to Trump’s Twitter Madness | The New Republic](https://newrepublic.com/article/134841/method-trumps-twitter-madness) This seems to me to be a particularly good point (and one that should receive wider exposure). Trump should not be getting a pass on this via the theories that this was ‘a mistake’ and that responsibility lies not with Trump but with some random staffer. > [@raventhief](#): > > I am fairly certain that Jeffrey Lord is unhinged. > ETA: The ONLY exposure I have had to him is as Trump’s surrogate on CNN. Scottie Nell Hughes, Katrina Pierson, Kayleigh McEnany, and John Phillips seem rather hinge-challenged, too. And of course we now have Corey Lewandowski getting popping-veins indignant over every criticism of his beloved Trump on CNN. (The news shows must be providing quite a feast for diagnostic psychology fans.) ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2016, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-star-of-david-tweet/759090/95 "2016-07-05T19:43:57Z")
> [@lance\_strongarm](#): > > Ryan seems to think that as long as he keeps admitting that Trump is a shameless racist bastard, it’s okay to support him. Ryan has every reason to believe Trump will clean things up: _"The point is, I think he’s got to clean this up. My understanding is that this was done by staff, not by he himself. But more importantly, they’ve got to clean this thing up.”_ …Any day now. ---
**Author:** ![DerekMichaels00](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f14d63/32.png) [@DerekMichaels00](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DerekMichaels00)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2016, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-star-of-david-tweet/759090/96 "2016-07-05T20:00:41Z")
Does Trump even really wanna win? This was supposed to be the year the GOP broke the Dem stranglehold on the Jewish vote and the Hispanic votes; Trump has blown that to pieces. ---
**Author:** ![you\_with\_the\_face](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ecccb3/32.png) [@you\_with\_the\_face](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/you_with_the_face)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2016, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-star-of-david-tweet/759090/97 "2016-07-05T20:03:59Z")
“This wasn’t done by me, but my staff” lacks legitimacy even in corporate America, let alone the White House. If Trump was a contestant on The Apprentice, Trump would be firing him. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6bbea6/32.png) [@Johnny\_Ace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ace)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2016, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-star-of-david-tweet/759090/98 "2016-07-05T20:05:57Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > Scottie Nell Hughes, Katrina Pierson, Kayleigh McEnany, and John Phillips seem rather hinge-challenged, too. Especially Mc-inane-y. She was just another Trump mouthpiece to me until her tirade calling Hillary an enabler of Bubba and destroyer of women he associated with. How a woman could possibly _really_ think that way is beyond me. Now I just want to throw the nearest handy thing at the screen whenever she comes on. Thank whatever gods there be for the Mute button. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2016, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-star-of-david-tweet/759090/99 "2016-07-05T20:33:09Z")
> [@Johnny\_Ace](#): > > Especially Mc-inane-y. She was just another Trump mouthpiece to me until her tirade calling Hillary an enabler of Bubba and destroyer of women he associated with. … Note that the logical consequence of that philosophy–that women who stay married to men who stray, are by definition bad and awful “Enablers”–is that the ONLY virtuous and respectable thing to do if infidelity occurs, is to _divorce_. Conveniently, this philosophy makes Trump himself one of the most virtuous and respectable persons alive! ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2016, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-star-of-david-tweet/759090/100 "2016-07-05T20:50:12Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > Note that the logical consequence of that philosophy–that women who stay married to men who stray, are by definition bad and awful “Enablers”–is that the ONLY virtuous and respectable thing to do if infidelity occurs, is to _divorce_. Didn’t it have more to do with her disregarding Bill’s rape and sexual harassment accusations than his infidelity? > **[Juanita Broaddrick](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juanita_Broaddrick)** > > Juanita Broaddrick is an American former nursing home administrator. She alleged that she was raped by U.S. President Bill Clinton on April 25, 1978, when he (aged 32) was the Attorney General of Arkansas. Clinton declined to comment on the issue. > Rumors had circulated about such an event for years and it had been recorded in a letter prepared by a Republican rival of Clinton's around 1991, but Broaddrick refused to speak to news media until 1999. In a sworn statement in 1997 with the placeho... [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-star-of-david-tweet/759090.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-star-of-david-tweet/759090.md?page=6)