Trump’s ‘Amazing’ Entry In Holocaust Memorial Guestbook Gets Mixed Reactions
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President Trump’s Tuesday visit to Yad Vashem, a Holocaust memorial and museum located in Jerusalem, culminated in him leaving a message in the center’s guest book.
President Trump’s Tuesday visit to Yad Vashem, a Holocaust memorial and museum located in Jerusalem, culminated in him leaving a message in the center’s guest book.
He wrote, “It is a great honor to be here with all of my friends - So amazing and will NEVER FORGET!” That parting sentiment has been met with mixed reactions.
Critics were left entirely unimpressed, and in a number of cases offended, by the entry’s brevity and what some deemed as a lack of sensitivity and sincerity, notes ABC News.
A reporter for the Times of Israel posted a picture of Trump’s message and wrote, “He forgot: ‘See you next summer.’”
Others compared it to the much longer and emotionally dimensional note left by Barack Obama in 2008, notes the Huffington Post.
That one read, in part, “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 hoped and loved and dreamed like us, and who have become symbols of the human spirit.”
Those who took no issue with Trump’s guestbook entry expressed a variety of reasons why it is not, in fact, disrespectful or lacking in the appropriate gravity.
Haaretz noted the president summed up his experience, “as only he can,” while the Jerusalem Post characterized his signing as “enthusiastic.”
Avner Shalev, chairman of Yad Vashem, told ABC that he did not find the message insensitive and noted the speech Trump gave at the center was, “very meaningful.”
President Trump’s Tuesday visit to Yad Vashem, a Holocaust memorial and museum located in Jerusalem, culminated in him leaving a message in the center’s guest book.
He wrote, “It is a great honor to be here with all of my friends - So amazing and will NEVER FORGET!” That parting sentiment has been met with mixed reactions.
Critics were left entirely unimpressed, and in a number of cases offended, by the entry’s brevity and what some deemed as a lack of sensitivity and sincerity, notes ABC News.
A reporter for the Times of Israel posted a picture of Trump’s message and wrote, “He forgot: ‘See you next summer.’”
Others compared it to the much longer and emotionally dimensional note left by Barack Obama in 2008, notes the Huffington Post.
That one read, in part, “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 hoped and loved and dreamed like us, and who have become symbols of the human spirit.”
Those who took no issue with Trump’s guestbook entry expressed a variety of reasons why it is not, in fact, disrespectful or lacking in the appropriate gravity.
Haaretz noted the president summed up his experience, “as only he can,” while the Jerusalem Post characterized his signing as “enthusiastic.”
Avner Shalev, chairman of Yad Vashem, told ABC that he did not find the message insensitive and noted the speech Trump gave at the center was, “very meaningful.”