--- title: Donald Trump Jr. Blasted by ADL for 'Holocaust Joke' description: The Anti-Defamation League called out Donald Trump Jr. on Twitter Thursday for making what it called “Holocaust jokes” canonical: https://time.com/4495615/donald-trump-jr-adl-holocaust-joke-gas-chamber/ author: Abigail Abrams article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-15T17:38:01.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-14T21:34:37.000Z article:section: Politics og:title: Anti-Defamation League Blasts Donald Trump Jr. for 'Holocaust Joke' og:description: "They’d be warming up the gas chamber right now,” he said og:url: https://time.com/4495615/donald-trump-jr-adl-holocaust-joke-gas-chamber/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6125dc6da17ee32c/6988a642428a9e5abecd4460/donald-trump-jr-gas-chambers-adl-holocaust-interview-philadelphia.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Donlad Trump Jr og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Anti-Defamation League Blasts Donald Trump Jr. for 'Holocaust Joke' twitter:description: "They’d be warming up the gas chamber right now,” he said twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6125dc6da17ee32c/6988a642428a9e5abecd4460/donald-trump-jr-gas-chambers-adl-holocaust-interview-philadelphia.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Anti-Defamation League Blasts Donald Trump Jr. for 'Holocaust Joke' ## Video: Meet the Trump Son Speaking at the Convention Tuesday [Watch (HLS stream): Meet the Trump Son Speaking at the Convention Tuesday](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/kSqkeKZu.m3u8) (2:42)  _Published 2016-07-20. Donald Trump Jr.’s speech at the Republican convention Tuesday night won’t be the first time he’s stumped for his father._ by [Abigail Abrams](https://time.com/author/abigail-abrams/) ## Abigail Abrams Updated: Dec 14, 2023 9:34 PM UTCPublished: Sep 15, 2016 5:38 PM UTC  Donald Trump, Jr., son of Republican Presidential Candidate Donald Trump, lifts his fist after speaking during the second day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland on July 19, 2016. Donald Trump, Jr., son of Republican Presidential Candidate Donald Trump, lifts his fist after speaking during the second day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland on July 19, 2016.J. Scott Applewhite—AP by [Abigail Abrams](https://time.com/author/abigail-abrams/) ## Abigail Abrams Updated: Dec 14, 2023 9:34 PM UTCPublished: Sep 15, 2016 5:38 PM UTC The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) called out Donald Trump Jr. on Twitter Thursday for making what it called “Holocaust jokes.” The Republican presidential nominee’s son referenced gas chambers [in a Philadelphia radio interview](http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2016/09/14/donald-trump-jr-media-is-clintons-number-one-surrogate/) Wednesday when he said the media has been protecting Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee as they tried to force Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders out of the primary race earlier this year. “The media has been her number one surrogate in this. Without the media, this wouldn’t even be a contest, but the media has built her up,” Trump said. “They’ve let her slide on every indiscrepancy, on every lie, on every DNC game trying to get Bernie Sanders out of this thing. If Republicans were doing that, they’d be warming up the gas chamber right now.” The Jewish civil rights group responded by tweeting that it hopes Trump retracts his statement. > [](https://twitter.com/ADL%5FNational/status/776458652907663360) The Trump son was also recently under fire for posting an [image on Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/p/BKMtdN5Bam5/?hl=en) that featured himself, his father and other Republicans alongside “Pepe the Frog” — a symbol of the alt-right movement. Clinton’s campaign was quick to jump on the younger Trump’s comments. Clinton’s director of Jewish outreach Sarah Bard said they showed “just how insensitive, divisive and reckless the Trump campaign is.” “The bottom line is this: offensive references to the Holocaust are never acceptable, especially from a presidential campaign,” Bard said in a statement. The Trump campaign said Thursday the candidate’s son was not making a reference to the Holocaust. “Don Jr. was clearly referring to capital punishment to make the case that the media continues to take words out of context in order to serve as the propaganda arm of the Hillary Clinton campaign — something that’s only gotten worse as Trump’s poll numbers have improved,” Jason Miller, the campaign’s senior communications adviser, said in a statement. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4495615/donald-trump-jr-adl-holocaust-joke-gas-chamber/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4495615/donald-trump-jr-adl-holocaust-joke-gas-chamber/"},"headline":"Anti-Defamation League Blasts Donald Trump Jr. for 'Holocaust Joke'","datePublished":"2016-09-15T17:38:01.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-14T21:34:37.000Z","description":"\"They’d be warming up the gas chamber right now,” he said","url":"https://time.com/4495615/donald-trump-jr-adl-holocaust-joke-gas-chamber/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election topic","Holocaust","Donald Trump Jr."],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6125dc6da17ee32c/6988a642428a9e5abecd4460/donald-trump-jr-gas-chambers-adl-holocaust-interview-philadelphia.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Abigail Abrams","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/abigail-abrams/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6125dc6da17ee32c/6988a642428a9e5abecd4460/donald-trump-jr-gas-chambers-adl-holocaust-interview-philadelphia.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Donlad Trump Jr","caption":"Donlad Trump Jr","creditText":"J. 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