In President Donald J. Trump’s flurry of official actions at the beginning of his Presidency, there are two in particular which we wish to call the reader’s attention to. They are: a proclamation instituting January 27, 2025 as a “National Day of Remembrance of the 80th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz” and an executive order on “Additional Measures to Combat Anti-Semitism.” Taken together, both of these things point toward a pattern of groveling before the Jews. In order that the sequence of events may be made clear to the reader, we shall proceed in chronological order.
On January 27th, the President sent out a proclamation declaring that day a “National Day of Remembrance of the 80th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz.” Naturally, this was done to improve his support among the Jewish people, who are generally opposed to him and his policies. In this “proclamation,” the President “calls upon every American citizen to observe this day with programs, ceremonies, and prayers commemorating the victims of the Holocaust and honoring the sacrifices of the men and women who helped liberate the victims of the Nazis at Auschwitz.” It is a wonder, indeed, that our new President should call on us to pray in honor of Jews and Communists; but he is, of course, not a Christian man, and so he does not see what he is asking us to do. Considered in that way, his actions become more understandable.
Throughout this lofty proclamation, the President — or the person who writes in his name — refers to opposition to Jews and criticism of the Jewish state as a deadly scourge, a poison that “has no place in a civilized society, no place in our foreign policy, and no place in the United States of America.” He then praises the Jewish state as America’s “mighty friend” and says the Jews “represent the peak of human tenacity and the pinnacle of human triumph.” Whether what the Jews have involved themselves in since the creation of the Jewish state — e.g., furthering sexual immorality throughout the whole world; weakening usury laws; removing all natural, let alone Christian, religious consciousness from public life — is “the pinnacle of human triumph,” we leave to the reader to conclude.
Two days later, President Trump signed an executive order which put into action his earlier rhetoric. He makes it the business of his administration to root out opposition to Jews and their state “throughout the world.” He indirectly again accepts the I.H.R.A. definition of anti-Semitism, as he did in 2019, which makes the very Word of God out to be an anti-Semitic text. In so doing, he again advocates using the legal chainsaw of civil rights law to forward the interests of world Jewry.
Although section 2 of the executive order subtly distinguishes between legal and unlawful “anti-Semitism,” there is little hope that such a distinction will be kept in practice. Rather, experience shows that such provisions, especially when they are not stated directly, do little to halt the suppression of nominally legal speech.
Taken together, the actions of the President paint a picture of one who would not do anything that could endanger his relations with Jews. It is therefore unsurprising that, when he halted all foreign aid, Israel was one of two countries given an exception. His is a presidency that will, it seems, be characterized yet again by a pathetic subservience to the Jews.
Altlutheraner 