Donald Trump has questioned why the Disney film Frozen has not received outrage for using a six-pointed star shaped like the Star of David after he came under heavy criticism for using the symbol in a tweet about Hillary Clinton.
The presumptive Republican presidential candidate, 70, prompted controversy after he tweeted a meme of his Democrat rival along with a six-pointed star on a background of dollar notes on Saturday.
The star contained the phrase: “Most corrupt candidate ever” and the tweet was captioned: “Crooked Hilary makes history”. Beneath the graphic was a screenshot of a Fox News poll that asked voters how “honest/trustworthy” or “corrupt” they found Ms Clinton.
Political commentators and social media users immediately accused Mr Trump of antisemitism and poor taste. Clinton’s national spokesman Josh Schwerin asked: “Why is there a Star of David?”
Mr Trump subsequently deleted the tweet and sent out a second image with the text inside a circle instead of a star. The Trump campaign said they had not been aware of the connotations of the image.
The image previously appeared on /pol/, an Internet message board visited by white supremacists and neo-Nazis just two weeks before the Trump campaign’s tweet.
On Wednesday, Mr Trump drew parallels between his own meme and a Frozen sticker book. He tweeted a photo of the Disney book, writing: “Where is the outrage for this Disney book? Is this the 'Star of David' also?”
In a campaign rally on Wednesday evening, Mr Trump defended the controversial tweet and said it should never have been deleted by his campaign. He instead insisted that those who suggested it was antisemitic were the real racists. “Actually they’re racially profiling,” said the presumptive Republican nominee. “They’re racially profiling. Not us. Why do they bring this up?”
Representatives for Disney, Ms Clinton and Mr Trump did not immediately respond to request for comment.
