Maker Of Trump’s CNN Video Has Dabbled In Anti-Semitism

By Daniel J. Solomon July 3, 2017

The Internet troll who made a video of President Trump attacking CNN has also made racist ant anti-Semitic memes, sharing them on the Reddit social media site.

Here’s another meme from the guy Trump tweeted, this one showing CNN personalities with Jewish stars. pic.twitter.com/BJoJ751eMQ

— Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) July 2, 2017

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Here’s the man who made the meme Trump tweeted asking for someone to make a videogame map so he could presumably shoot virtual Mexicans. pic.twitter.com/VH5KEF3TRC

— Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) July 2, 2017

The Web profile of the Internet troll was exposed by Jared Yates-Sexton, a creative writing professor at Georgia Southern University. Trump tweeted out the video over the weekend after a week in which he attacked the media, including savaging an MSNBC host for her appearance.

Trump has tweeted and re-tweeted content from anti-Semitic and racist sources before, including during the campaign, when he tweeted out an image about Hillary Clinton that showed a pile of money along with a six-pointed star that resembled a Star of David.

Yates-Sexton said that he had been threatened after exposing the anti-Semitic memes.

Exposing an antisemitic and a racist now equals being threatened with death and your body never being discovered. Think about that.

— Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) July 3, 2017

Yesterday I broke the news that the guy who made Trump’s CNN gif also created an antisemitic meme and was obviously racist. 2/

— Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) July 3, 2017

In the wake of that, I received numerous threats. I was told people wanted to shoot, strangle me, hang me, throw me out of a helicopter 3/

— Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) July 3, 2017

Contact Daniel J. Solomon at [email protected] or on Twitter @DanielJSolomon

Daniel J. Solomon is the former Assistant to the Editor/News Writer at the Forward. Originally from Queens, he attended Harvard as an undergraduate, where he wrote his senior thesis on French-Jewish intellectual history. He is excited to have returned to New York after his time in Massachusetts. Daniel’s passions include folk music, cycling, and pointed argument.

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