President Donald Trump’s written message in a guestbook at Israel’s main Holocaust memorial and museum is causing quite the stir.
“It is a great honor to be here with all of my friends – so amazing + will never forget!”
Trump wrote this during his visit to Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, today. You can see exactly what he wrote in the picture below.
People are responding quite negatively to this message and rightly so. Raoul Wootliff, a reporter for the right-wing Times of Israel, posted on Twitter,
“He forgot: ‘See you next summer.’”
My question is, why are you talking about your friends at this memorial? And more importantly, there is nothing "amazing" about any memorial, particularly one about the Holocaust. This is something you’d expect a child to accidentally write because they didn’t know better.
When Former President Barack Obama visited Yad Vashem in 2008, he wrote a significantly different and more apprpriate message in the book.
“I am grateful to Yad Vashem and all of those responsible for this remarkable institution. At a time of great peril and promise, war and strife, we are blessed to have such a powerful reminder of man’s potential for great evil, but also our capacity to rise up from tragedy and remake our world. Let our children come here, and know this history, so that they can add their voices to proclaim ‘never again.’ And may we remember those who perished, not only as victims, but also as individuals who helped and loved and dreamed like us, and who have become symbols of the human spirit.”
Hillary Clinton also went to the Holocaust memorial as secretary of state in March 2009 and wrote the message below.
“Yad Vashem is a testament to the power of truth in the face of denial, the resilience of the human spirit in the face of despair, the triumph of the Jewish people over murder and destruction and a reminder to all people that the lessons of the Holocaust must never be forgotten. God bless Israel and its future.”
I'm thinking anyone who knows anything about Trump knows that he isn't the sharpest knife in the drawer. Frankly, the man is downright stupid. So, the fact that he signed it like a high school year book shouldn't surprise us. In fact, we should all applaud him and praise him for not signing it in crayon.
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