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President Trump Delivers Jewish American Heritage Month Message, May 16, 2025

May 16, 2025 · The White House · 0:01:04

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What happened

President Donald Trump delivered a Jewish American Heritage Month message published by the White House on May 16, 2025. Trump celebrated the contributions of Jewish citizens to the country “all the way back before our nation’s founding,” naming Albert Einstein, George Gershwin, Henry Kissinger, and Milton Friedman among the scientists, doctors, artists, jurists, and business people he cited, according to his remarks.

Trump said America is home to the largest Jewish population outside of Israel “by far,” and that “we will always defend our people and our religious believers,” as stated in the message. He said his administration has taken “unprecedented action to end the scourge of antisemitism in our streets,” and that schools and college campuses “will be safe,” according to his remarks.

Why it matters

The heritage-month message doubles as a policy statement: Trump tied the celebration directly to his administration’s campus and civil-rights enforcement campaign against antisemitism.

Sources: The White House, “Happy Jewish American Heritage Month from President Donald J. Trump”, 2025-05-16 (official upload, embedded above; published 2025-05-16). Transcript via Supadata (private research store, paraphrased and attributed, not republished). All figures and characterizations as stated by the speakers.