Trump shares tweet calling New York City mayor ‘an anti-Semite thug’

Following a night of protests and unrest in Orthodox neighborhoods in Brooklyn, US President Donald Trump shares a tweet calling New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio “an anti-Semite thug,” and appears to compare NYPD intervention in Jewish gatherings to historical anti-Semitic regimes.

Massive and at times violent demonstrations took place in Orthodox neighborhoods in Brooklyn Tuesday night, protesting against lockdown restrictions recently imposed on the neighborhoods due to a spike in coronavirus cases. Protesters burned masks and blocked a city bus. At one point, a group of protesters severely beat an advocate of mask-wearing.

One night earlier, late Monday night, police broke up a crowd celebrating the Jewish holiday of Sukkot due to social distancing regulations. A video of that scene has garnered 1.4 million views on Twitter.

James Woods, an actor who has built a prolific pro-Trump Twitter presence, shares the video and suggests that Jews in New York City face persecution resembling what Jews faced when Nazis sent them to concentration camps during the Holocaust.

“Rounding up the Jews” is an optic that I would never have expected to see in my American lifetime. DeBlasio is a criminal. No wonder he changed his name from Wilhelm. He is an anti-Semite thug piece of shit. https://t.co/15cxKSAoOR

— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) October 6, 2020

(De Blasio was born Warren Wilhelm, but he did not have a good relationship with his father and later changed his name.)

Trump shares Woods’ tweet on Wednesday morning and also appears to make a Holocaust comparison, asking “Wow, what does this grim picture remind you of?”

Wow, what does this grim picture remind you of? I am the only thing in the Radical Left’s way! VOTE https://t.co/gnlvm4swFv

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 7, 2020

— JTA