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President Trump visited Yad Vashem, the Israeli Holocaust memorial museum on the edge of Jerusalem, on Tuesday morning. Flanked by Israeli and American flags, the president spoke gravely of the “millions of innocent, wonderful, and beautiful lives, men, women, and children … extinguished as part of a systematic attempt to eliminate the Jewish people.”
And, when he left, he signed the guest book: “It is a great honor to be here with all of my friends — so amazing and will never forget!”
Many tweeters juxtaposed Trump’s note against the sober message left by Barack Obama when he visited Yad Vashem in July 2008, while he was still a senator. http://bit.ly/2rNBNQr
“[These statues are] not just innocent remembrances of a benign history. These monuments celebrate a fictional, sanitized Confederacy — ignoring the death, ignoring the enslavement, ignoring the terror that it actually stood for.” —New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu
Left: President Trump's guest book message to Israel's Holocaust museum: "So Amazing + Will never forget!"
Right: The sober message left by former President Barack Obama when he visited in July 2008, while he was still a senator.
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Since January, we’ve been polling over 9,000 people a month to get a better understanding of how people feel about the economy and what influences their opinions — chiefly, politics.
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Vox's Dara Lind and Tara Golshan took a long, hard look at the wall: whether and how it could work, how Trump can make it happen, and who would be helped and hurt. You can read the article here: http://bit.ly/2rMR8Ru
Today, they'll answer your questions about all things wall. Leave your questions below, and they'll hop in the comments throughout the day.
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