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Posted: 2019-02-13T02:51:23Z | Updated: 2019-02-13T02:51:23Z

No stranger to hypocrisy, President Donald Trump told reporters Tuesday morning that Rep. llhan Omar (D-Minn.) should either resign from Congress or step down from a House committee assignment over recent tweets some lawmakers decried as anti-Semitic.

His sharp criticism of Omar is ironic given how many times Trump has made anti-Semitic comments or hesitated to denounce such rhetoric in the past. Here are some of the most egregious examples.

He wouldnt call on Steve King to resign

Trump notably did not call on Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) to resign after the congressman questioned what was so offensive about white supremacy, the ideology at the heart of the Holocaust and other anti-Semitic movements throughout history, during a January interview with The New York Times.

Trumps silence came despite many top House Republicans calling for the Iowa lawmaker to step down . Few were willing to give King the benefit of the doubt, given his long history of racist sentiments and links to neo-Nazi movements.

He used a Jewish Star of David to call Hillary Clinton corrupt

During his 2016 campaign, Trump tweeted a blatantly anti-Semitic image featuring a picture of Hillary Clinton pasted over a backdrop of $100 bills with a six-pointed star the Jewish Star of David alongside her face.