Probably doing so against the wishes of every one of his advisers, President Donald Trump jumped on Twitter Thursday night to take a swipe at Sen. Al Franken, referring to him as “Al Frankenstien” (misspelling and all).
The Al Frankenstien picture is really bad, speaks a thousand words. Where do his hands go in pictures 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6 while she sleeps? …..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 17, 2017
It probably wasn’t the most politically savvy move, and it even got some people wondering … what if Trump used that name to signal that Franken is Jewish? Hmm…? Here’s Sarah “Elect Women” McBride:
https://twitter.com/josh_hammer/status/931369090572259328
https://twitter.com/BluesPlayer33/status/931533023413186561
Ridiculous? Yeah, but that doesn’t preclude it from spreading on social media.
Anyone else think that #Trump calling @alfranken "Frankenstein" is anti-Semitic?
— AssortedThoughts (@someopinions) November 17, 2017
I can't be the only one who sees his use of Frankenstein instead of the senators actual name as being anti-Semitic?
— AJ (@NotMyFlyMonkeys) November 17, 2017
Trump’s misspelling of FrankenSTEIN is anti-Semitic ? https://t.co/LnwfYO8Gy6
— Dan Berger (@danielhberger) November 17, 2017
https://twitter.com/HardR_DSA/status/931364312265973760
What’s with the “Frankenstein”? Is that supposed to be an anti Semitic shot?
— mboods (@m_boods) November 17, 2017
Also, I'm not convinced that Trump meant Frankenstein the modern prometheus. I think he meant to make an anti-semitic play on words to combine Al Franken's last name and the Jewish-German surname 'Stein' but couldn't spell it right either way, just like his "crazy low-IQ" son. ?
— Chris Hatcher (@LunchpailD) November 17, 2017
https://twitter.com/HardR_DSA/status/931366749135663104
Calling Al Franken "Al Frankenstein" is the ultimate confluence of the 3 most virulent anti-Semitic strains:
1) outingthe "hidden" Jewish last names
2) Suspicion of the Jew as covert sexual monster/predator
3) Connecting Jews to the gothic monstrosity of modernity— Jay Louis (@JayLouis) November 18, 2017
Wonder if this guy is a university professor.
He called Al Franken Al Frankenstein to remind the world he's Jewish. He did it 2 days after the Bernie Bernstein robocall. Not an accident
— Stefanie Iris Weiss ? (@EcoSexuality) November 17, 2017
You do realize that there's a book and several movies about a monster who holds his arms out in the same fashion as Al Franken groping Leeann Tweeden in that photo, right?
— Mark J. Sprinkle (@MarkSprinkle) November 17, 2017
Franken's stance in the photo bears no resemblance to the monster in Frankenstein
— Stefanie Iris Weiss ? (@EcoSexuality) November 17, 2017
Um…
What? Did your eyes stop working? Blinded by politics? And btw, sexual assault and harassment are never okay. It doesn't matter who is doing it. Don't defend monsters. pic.twitter.com/bCID0v5jur
— Mark J. Sprinkle (@MarkSprinkle) November 17, 2017
Absolutely no relationship between the monster's stance and Franken looking back at the camera from the side. No one would see that and think of Frankenstein's monster except for someone looking to excuse the "President" from making an insidious, coordinated anti-Semitic attack
— Stefanie Iris Weiss ? (@EcoSexuality) November 17, 2017
Blocked a lot of them, but when I pointed out that the Trump Frankenstein tweet was anti-Semitic, I was immediately besieged by Russian bots https://t.co/mPC5M8sBAs
— Stefanie Iris Weiss ? (@EcoSexuality) November 17, 2017
Problematic …
The path to linking AL Frankenstein to an anti-semitic insult… pic.twitter.com/dqKT5WXMLm
— Ellis Wyatt (@jcrowder55) November 17, 2017
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