


Former President Donald Trump bashed President Joe Biden‘s response to anti-Israel protests on college campuses in an echo to Biden’s condemnation of Trump’s responses to protests in 2020.
Protests at various college campuses, including Columbia University and the University of California, Los Angeles, have led to reports of intimidation and harassment of Jewish students, along with violence. Trump, speaking on Fox News’s Hannity on Tuesday, blasted Biden’s inaction on the unrest, telling the president to speak out against the antisemitism on college campuses.
“We have to go back to the roots, we have to protect — we have to stop the antisemitism that’s just pervading our country right now, and Biden has to do something,” Trump said. “Biden is supposed to be the voice of our country, and it’s certainly not much of a voice. It’s a voice that nobody’s heard.”
“And look, I don’t think he’s able to do it. I don’t think he’s got what it takes to do it. But he’s got to — he’s got to strengthen up, and he’s got to be heard,” he said.
During the 2020 campaign, in which Trump was president and Biden was the challenger, Biden bashed Trump’s handling of unrest several times, specifically placing the blame on Trump for violence in the country.
“Donald Trump has been president for almost four years. The temperature in the country is higher, tensions run stronger, divisions run deeper. And all of us are less safe because he can’t do the job of the American president,” Biden said in an August 2020 post on X.
“Trump and Pence are running on this: ‘You won’t be safe in Joe Biden’s America.’ And what’s their proof? The violence you’re seeing in Donald Trump’s America,” Biden said in a different post from August 2020.
“Tonight, President Trump declined to rebuke violence. He wouldn’t even repudiate one of his supporters who is charged with murder. He is too weak, too scared of the hatred he has stirred to put an end to it,” Biden said in a post on X, referring to Kyle Rittenhouse, who was acquitted of homicide charges for killing two men in self-defense during a riot.
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Biden has offered a qualified condemnation of the protests, telling reporters last week that he condemns “the antisemitic protests” but that he “also condemn[s] those who don’t understand what’s going on with the Palestinians.”
His administration has offered condemnations through the White House, and in his proclamation of Jewish American Heritage Month, he also condemned antisemitism.