Biden condemns antisemitism after Ye praises Hitler post-Trump dinner

President Joe Biden denounced antisemitism and took a veiled jab at Donald Trump days after the former president dined with rapper Ye, who has made a string of recent antisemitic comments, and white nationalist Nick Fuentes.

“I just want to make a few things clear,” Biden tweeted Friday from his official account. “The Holocaust happened. Hitler was a demonic figure. And instead of giving it a platform, our political leaders should be calling out and rejecting antisemitism wherever it hides. Silence is complicity.”

The message comes a day after the rapper formerly known as Kanye West told right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones “I like Hitler” during an antisemitic rant. He also tweeted out a swastika in a Star of David, prompting a suspension from the platform.

Trump, the presumptive frontrunner for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination, had dinner last week with West and Fuentes at his Mar-a-Lago club, sparking widespread condemnation. West’s comments have only become more inflammatory since the meal, and Trump has not yet disavowed his connection with the rapper.

“I love Jewish people, but I also love Nazis,” West told Jones on his InfoWars show, also praising what he considered Hitler’s contributions to society. Fuentes, who the Department of Justice labeled as a white supremacist last year, was also a guest on the hate-filled program. Jones, a noted conspiracy theorist, filed for personal bankruptcy Friday following a lawsuit filed by the families of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, which he spent nearly a decade calling a hoax.

West’s comments were offensive enough for Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee to delete a tweet they posted on Oct. 6, which read: “Kanye. Elon. Trump.” The committee members received pushback on the post for weeks after billionaire Elon Musk allowed previously banned right-wing figures including Trump and West to rejoin Twitter.

West was once again booted from Twitter on Friday after he posted an image of a swastika, a symbol synonymous with the Nazis, inside a Star of David, a prominent symbol of Judaism. West previously had his Twitter account suspended in October, prior to Musk’s purchase, after he posted that he was “going death con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE.” Musk announced the company had restored West’s account on Nov. 20 and welcomed the rapper back to the platform, tweeting “Don’t kill what ye hate, save what ye love.”

West’s net worth dropped by hundreds of millions of dollars after Adidas announced it was ending its partnership with the rapper and Gap, Foot Locker and others said they would no longer carry his products after his antisemitic tweet in October. Major Hollywood talent agency CAA dropped him as a client, as well. Three weeks before his “death con 3” tweet, West sparked controversy — and praise from some conservatives — for showing a “White Lives Matter” T-shirt at Paris Fashion Week.

The “silence is complicity” part of Biden’s tweet is an apparent criticism of Trump…