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Donald and Melania Trump remember the victims of the Pittsburgh slaughter on October 30, 2018. – Andrew Harnik / AP / SIPA
"Trump: lies kill" or "Words count". Donald Trump, who came to the Pittsburgh synagogue Tuesday, where an anti-Semitic shooter shot down 11 worshipers, was greeted by protesters opposed to his visit to the wounded city that is just beginning to bury his dead. More than 1,500 people of all ages and denominations have called on the US President to give up his incendiary rants at an unprecedented event in such a tragic context.
March in Pittsburgh as Trump visits with families of the victims of synagogue shooting https://t.co/W0tBxALDaQ
– Reuters Top News (@Reuters) October 30, 2018
Pittsburgh protesting trump's repugnant visit. Not today Satan. ?pic.twitter.com/W76rqAQ6Od
– Ricky Davila (@TheRickyDavila) October 30, 2018
Accompanied by his wife Melania, his daughter Ivanka, converted to Judaism, and son-in-law Jared Kushner wearing the kippah, the Republican billionaire came to show the solidarity of Americans with Pittsburgh. In the mourning synagogue Tree of Life, Donald Trump lit a candle for each of the eleven victims of the deadliest anti-Semitic attack ever in the United States.
Accused of disinhibiting the extreme right with his fiery speeches
On Saturday, the tenant of the White House strongly condemned the killing and called for eradicating "the poison of anti-Semitism." But several voices reproached him for disinhibiting the extreme right with his heated speeches.
"I believe the President of the United States should be able to go anywhere that he wants" says @RepTedLieu Trump's trip to Pittsburgh. "What's more important than rhetoric that's divisive I hope the President tries to unify our nation" pic.twitter.com/c16kBQ4TZl
– CNN Newsroom (@CNNnewsroom) October 30, 2018
In an icy silence, an organizer of the event sent him this message: "Saturday's violence is a direct consequence of your influence. President Trump, you are not welcome to Pittsburgh as long as you do not give up on white nationalism. "
The Democratic Mayor of Pittsburgh, Bill Peduto, for his part advised the president to postpone his visit to give the victims' families time to bury their dead. "I think it would be better to focus on these families this week and, if there is going to be a visit, to choose another time," he told CNN.
"A president who does nothing against anti-Semitism"
Robert Bowers, the alleged murderer, was arrested after firing with the police. Charged with 29 counts, he faces the death penalty. "I just wanted to kill Jews," he said after his arrest, accusing Jews of being responsible for a "genocide" of whites in a rhetoric dear to the far right.
For the detractors of Donald Trump, this type of speech has become commonplace since his accession to the presidency. If he leads a clearly pro-Israeli policy, the real estate mogul has sometimes seemed to spare white supremacists. And he often attacks Jewish personalities like George Soros using the terms of the extreme right.
Coming to pay tribute to the Rosenthal brothers with her husband, Joanna Izenson told AFP to be both "very sad and angry". "There has always been anti-Semitism, but we have not always had a president who did nothing against it," she said. Despite calls for appeasement, Donald Trump has not changed his tone to a few days of crucial legislative elections for the remainder of his term. On Monday he was still referring to an "invasion" of migrants or media "enemies of the people".
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