{"id":26622,"date":"2017-04-12T04:56:45","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T04:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=26622"},"modified":"2017-04-12T04:56:45","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T04:56:45","slug":"donald-trump-skips-white-house-passover-seder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/donald-trump-skips-white-house-passover-seder.html","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump Skips White House Passover Seder"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tDonald Trump Skips White House Passover Seder<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span>
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\n\tDonald Trump Skips White House Passover Seder:- Better leave two seats empty at the White House Passover Seder this year\u2015 one for Elijah the prophet, and one for the president.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tPresident Donald Trump didn’t attend his staffers’ official Passover dinner on Monday, bucking the tradition that his predecessor Barack Obama started.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tObama both hosted and attended the Passover dinner every year of his presidency, a first for a sitting president. The tradition began during the 2008 presidential campaign, when he and several Jewish staffers held an impromptu Seder in Pennsylvania hotel.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tTrump officially hosted Monday night’s Seder, but neither he nor his daughter Ivanka Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner \u2015 who are Jewish\u2015 joined. According to his schedule, the president is having dinner with military leaders on Tuesday, so it seems unlikely he’ll attend a Seder then, either.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tHis absence was surprising to people who thought he would attend because of his fraught history with Jewish people. Notably, his campaign received widespread endorsement from Nazi groups and anti-Semitic figures like David Duke and Richard Spencer. Trump eventually denounced their support, but that didn’t stop him from later using an anti-Semitic image in an tweet criticizing Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tTrump has also been criticized by Jewish groups who liken his Syrian refugee ban to Holocaust-era policies. Trump’s America First slogan has anti-Semitic roots, too: It was popularized by citizens who opposed U.S. involvement in World War II. And the president even commemorated Holocaust Remembrance Day with a statement that didn’t actually mention the Jewish people.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tWhite House Press Secretary Sean Spicer shared a photo from the dinner, but didn’t explain the president’s absence.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tTrump instead marked the night by tweeting “Chag Sameach”\u2015 the Hebrew way of saying “happy holidays”\u2015 to those celebrating. And Ivanka Trump shared a photo with her husband and kids honoring the day.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tSource:- http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.in\/entry\/trump-passover-seder_us_58ecbc8ae4b0df7e20452f26<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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