Donald Trump
US President
“Disloyalty” remarks about Jewish voters and a dinner with Nick Fuentes.
What happened
Said Jewish Americans who vote Democratic show “great disloyalty” (2019); hosted Kanye West and white-nationalist Nick Fuentes at Mar-a-Lago (Nov 2022); warned in 2024 that Jewish voters would have “a lot to do with” a loss.
“Any Jewish people that vote for a Democrat … it shows either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty.”
Under each definition
Example 6 (dual loyalty) is implicated by the “disloyalty” remark — but it’s inverted (loyalty to Israel), so it doesn’t map cleanly.
The dual-loyalty guideline applies only if “disloyalty” meant betrayal of the US; defenders say he meant Israel.
Turns on interpretation; hosting Fuentes is association rather than a classifiable statement.
Not framed as criticism of Israel.
Who called it antisemitic
The ADL, J Street, and many Jewish organizations across the spectrum.
The defense
Trump and allies pointed to his strongly pro-Israel record and said he meant disloyalty to Israel, not to the US; he said he didn’t know who Fuentes was.
Outcome
Repeated condemnation; no formal sanction. Defenders and critics split sharply on whether it was rhetoric or genuine bigotry.
In their words
It’s unclear who @POTUS is claiming Jews would be ‘disloyal’ to, but charges of disloyalty have long been used to attack Jews.
President Trump is right, it shows a great deal of disloyalty to oneself to defend a party that protects/emboldens people that hate you for your religion.
There is no room in the Republican Party for antisemitism or white supremacy, and anyone meeting with people advocating that point of view … are highly unlikely to ever be elected president of the United States.
I had no idea what his views were, and they weren’t expressed at the table in our very quick dinner, or it wouldn’t have been accepted.
The verdicts above are how each framework would most likely treat this case — illustrative guidance, not official rulings. The 3D test applies only to Israel-related cases, so it reads “N/A” elsewhere. See the Definition tab for each framework’s full text. Inclusion is documentation, not a finding.