SWC Denounces Donald Trump’s Meeting with Anti-Semite and Holocaust Revisionist Nick Fuentes and Kanye West

“President Trump’s meeting with Nick Fuentes and Kanye West would be similar to a meeting of the President of the UnitedStates with leaders of the KKK,” stated Rabbi Marvin Hier, Simon Wiesenthal Center Founder and CEO who gave the invocation at President Trump’s inauguration in 2017.

The Simon Wiesenthal Center denounced former President Donald Trump for meeting with white nationalist Nick Fuentes and rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, at his Mar-a-Lago resorton Tuesday night.

Fuentes is a well-known white supremacist, anti-Semite and Holocaust denier. In 2019, Fuentes questioned whether 6million Jews were murdered by the Nazis with this outrageous analogy: “How long would it take you to make 6 million? Hmm, I don’t know, it certainly wouldn’t be five years, right? The mathdoesn’t seem to add up…. I don’t think you’d result in 6 million, maybe 200,000-300,000 cookies,” he said. Among other slanders, Fuentes is quoted as saying “I piss on your Talmud. Jews get thef@#$k out of America."

“It is unacceptable that a former President of the United States who has announced his candidacy for a second term would meet withanti-Semites and an avowed white nationalist. The result of this meeting is the mainstreaming of bigotry at a time of surging anti-Semitism in the United States. The SWC urges President Trump todisavow Nick Fuentes and his anti-Semitic bigotry,” stated Rabbi Abraham Cooper, Associate Dean and Director of Global Social Action.

For further information, please email Michele Alkin, Director of Global Communications at malkin@wiesenthal.com or Shawn Rodgers at srodgers@wiesenthal.com, join the Center on Facebook, orfollow @simonwiesenthal for news updates sent directly to your Twitter feed.

The Simon Wiesenthal Center is an international Jewish human rights organization numbering over 400.000 members. Itholds consultative status at the United Nations, UNESCO, the OSCE, the Council of Europe, the OAS, and the Latin American Parliament (PARLATINO).