>>Since Trump has spoken so forcefully using xenophobic and divisive rhetoric,

Citations please?

>> should he be expected to speak as emphatically against antisemitic acts?

He's just a man in his first 30 days in office. I note you don't quote Oren's jest that it takes 6 months to find the toilets when you take over the White House. As I've observed earlier- maybe make a list of the things he's done in his first month and compare it to predecessors. My pick: he's moving at a million miles an hour and thought that praise from Israel and his own Jewish darling daughter, ought to make his sentiments obvious without having to spell it out. Seems amazing he'd forget the jackal press, but there you have it.

The irony is that if it's so easy to tweet or issue banal statements about atrocities - then why attach such moment to them? Oren paraphrases that what matters is the action, not the platitudes, yet in some quarters the sole focus seems to be loud virtue-signaling or you're Hitler.

>>Why does he have to take it personally every time? That's what makes him incompetent when it comes to things like this.

What did he take personally this time? You mean the question? As I said before, it was a long rambling question. Here's the lesson I see: as a reporter, you can wax lyrical in print or website or onscreen. But in a time-contrained Trump press conference, if you want to ask a question: you'd better be succinct. "Jews are being targeted across the nation with bomb threats. As POTUS, can you reassure not just Jews but all decent Americans and warn the evil-doers that we will not tolerate their behavior?" That would have been a softball for Trump. How hard is that?

>>This is the guy who claimed that Obama was the founder of ISIS.

Have you seen this? http://www.judicialwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Pg.-291-Pgs.-287-293-JW-v-DOD-and-State-14-812-DOD-Release-2015-04-10-final-version11.pdf

Or this https://youtu.be/piN_MNSis1E ? Okaidi was the key man through whom US arms and money to the Syrian opposition flowed in 2012, and Abu Jandal was one of the highest ranking ISIS commanders on whom the US subsequently turned towards the end of the previous administration, killing him in an airstrike in December. The previous administration had regarded ISIS as a strategic asset against Assad while Russia and Iran support Assad who currently seems likely to come out on top, meaning the principal US contribution is refugees,the rise of ISIS and a Syrian leader grateful to/aligned with Iran and Russia. One option for Trump is to repudiate what came before and join with Russia to stabilise Syria, which is a cymical explanation for the dismay from the outgoing administration when it applied sanctions and expelled Russian diplomat families expecting the relationship to tank... and Putin rose above it.