‘We don’t need them. We don’t like them’: Trump says MAGA has no room for antisemites

US President Donald Trump says there is no room in his MAGA movement or the Republican Party for antisemites.

“I think we don’t need them. I think we don’t like them,” Trump tells The New York Times in an interview last week, whose full transcript was published on Sunday.

Asked if he condemns those in the conservative movement who have been espousing antisemitic views, Trump says, “certainly.”

“If you talk about the antisemitic views, there’s been nobody better for us. As an example, I just got the Israel award, which is the biggest award they give. It was just given to me. First time it was ever given to anybody outside of Israel,” he says.

Asked if he’ll condemn the far-right shock-jock and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes, Trump says he doesn’t know who he is. One of the interviewers reminds him that he dined with Fuentes along with Kanye West in 2022.

“I had dinner with him, one time, where he came as a guest of Kanye West. I didn’t know who he was bringing. He said, ‘Do you mind if I bring a friend?’ I said, ‘I don’t care.’ And it was Nick Fuentes? I don’t know Nick Fuentes.”

Trump is then pressed on Paul Ingrassia, who he appointed deputy general counsel of the General Services Administration, even after a series of his offensive text messages, including one expressing sympathy for Nazism, were made public.

“I don’t know that. It’s possible. I have thousands of people working here,” Trump says.

“I have a daughter who’s married to a Jewish person. My daughter happens to be Jewish, beautiful, three grandchildren are Jewish. I’m very proud of them. I’m very proud of that whole family. I am the least antisemitic person probably there is anywhere in the world,” he adds.