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Donald Trump made it a point to say America First not once, but twice in his inaugural address, using the slogan of what was once an anti-Semitic organization created in the 1940s aimed at appeasing the Nazi regime and Adolf Hitler, and for which he came under fire during his presidential campaign.
The Anti-Defamation League urged Trump in April to reconsider his use of the slogan, citing its anti-Semitic use in the months before Pearl Harbor by a group of prominent Americans seeking to keep the nation out of World War II.
According to the ADL, "the slogan and attitudes were popularized by the America First Committee and pilot Charles Lindburgh, who sympathized with the Nazis and whose rhetoric was characterized by anti-Semitism and offensive stereotypes, including assertions that Jews posed a threat to the U.S. because of their influence in motion pictures, radio, the press, and the government. For many Americans, the term will always be associated with and tainted by this history, the ADL added.
The term found a brief resurgence in the 1990s during Pat Buchanans presidential aspirations. Many Jewish-American groups have charged Buchanan with being an anti-Semite and Holocaust denier. (Allison Kaplan Sommer and Ben Samuels)
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