You have to understand how politics works. The key thing is that if you are not constantly visiting every Holocaust Memorial that comes within range, then it can mean only one thing: You must totally, completely support whatever it was the Nazis did to the Jews from 1933 to 1945.
This is even more true if you are in one of the key "Holocaust Centers" of the world, a country or city where "lots of bad things for the Jews" happened, or one that just has a really nice Holocaust memorial. Here's a handy list (with pictures) prepared by the good people at Buzzfreed.
Anyway, you don't get more Holocaust "ground zero" than Poland's capital city Warsaw and its lovely Monument to the Heroes of the Ghetto, commemorating all the Jews who got killed after they rose up and literally started shooting at Germans in 1943.
On sunny days it provides welcome shade. It is also popular with pigeons. |
So, when President Trump was in town meeting Polish politicians on the first leg of his visit to Europe it could mean only one thing when he didn't visit the city's Heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto Monument. Yes, he basically wants to switch the ovens back on, get the lampshade factories in full production, and boost soap production.
This was certainly how Poland's Jews felt, as revealed by a statement released by Poland’s chief rabbi, Michael Schudrich, Anna Chipczynska, president of the Jewish Community of Warsaw, and Leslaw Piszewski, president of the Union of Jewish Communities of Poland, in which they called Trump's refusal to take time out from trivial matters like trade and geopolitics a "slight."
"Ever since the fall of Communism in 1989, all U.S. presidents and vice presidents visiting Warsaw had made a point of visiting [the Monument]” the statement said. "We deeply regret that President Donald Trump, though speaking in public barely a mile away from the monument, chose to break with that laudable tradition, alongside so many other ones. We trust that this slight does not reflect the attitudes and feelings of the American people."
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