The President of the United States, Donald Trump, has asserted that the current level of antisemitism in the country is "like that of Germany in 1938," alluding to Nazi Germany, the year of the Night of Broken Glass and the annexation of Austria and part of Czechoslovakia by Adolf Hitler, on the eve of the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939.
"I’m amazed to see it," he said in an interview with conservative journalist Hugh Hewitt. "This is like Germany in 1938 or something like that. This is crazy what’s happening. When you see the attacks on people, racial attacks and the attacks, I think 57% are against Jews," he said.
The president added that, in his view, this surge in attacks against members of the Jewish community —which, according to FBI data, accounted for 63% of religious-motivated hate crimes in 2025— originated "during the period of Barack Hussein Obama," referring to the former Democratic president who occupied the White House between 2009 and 2017.
In this context, he has defended the actions of his Administration against antisemitism and cited as an example the pressure exerted on different universities to respond to these episodes, especially in the framework of protests against Israel over the offensive on the Gaza Strip following the attacks of October 7, 2023.
Trump has also insisted that he sees himself as the most Israel-friendly U.S. president of all time and has repeated that he enjoys "a 99%" level of support in Israel. "I am the most popular," he emphasized again, underscoring that, with that level of backing, he could "be prime minister of Israel" when he leaves the White House.
Finally, he said that "he doesn’t understand some things" about the results of the latest 'midterms' and mentioned the case of Democrat Abdul El Sayed, who would have obtained "quite a margin of votes from Jews" over Republican Mike Rogers. "It’s not understandable," he concluded.