It was eight years ago this week that Donald Trump was outraged that then-President Barack Obama hosted a Hanukkah celebration at the White House two weeks before the start of the holiday. Nevertheless, Trump hosted a Hanukkah celebration at the White House yesterday, two weeks before the start of the holiday.
But as HuffPost noted, the event itself became notable for entirely different reasons.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at tackling anti-Semitism on college campuses on Wednesday but one of the speakers at the event has said that Jews are going to hell.
Trump signed the order at a White House Hanukkah reception, with several prominent Jewish Americans in attendance, including New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft and Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz.
But the president also called upon evangelical Christian leader Robert Jeffress to speak, claiming hes a tremendous faith leader.
....A controversy soon followed, and much of the country learned of Jeffress record of over-the-top extremism on issues throughout the so-called culture war, with the Texan having lashed out at everyone from gays to Mormons to Muslims to Catholics (hes described Roman Catholicism as a cult-like pagan religion, which represents the genius of Satan.)
Of particular relevance today, hes also said you cant be saved by being a Jew. As recently as four years ago, Jeffress even insisted that Christians in the United States are persecuted in ways comparable to Germanys treatment of Jews before the Holocaust.