Last week, Donald Trump retweeted an image that played into his “Crooked Hillary” narrative while also being shockingly anti-Semitic. When outcry came, Trump’s camp tried several ridiculous responses. His Twitter account actually deleted the tweet, replacing it with a hasty photoshop, that left a bit of that star visible. The campaign tried to change the news cycle by teasing his potential VP picks. Trump insisted that it wasn’t a Star of David on the image that was birthed on a bigoted message board, but a “sheriff’s badge.” (Because the message was not that a cabal of greedy Jews are working together to fund “Crooked Hillary,” but that a cabal of wealthy sheriffs are?) Even Trump’s Jewish friend/son-in-law Jared Kushner got in on the lunacy of deflection, responding to Dana Schwartz’s powerful open letter by basically arguing: Trump isn’t an anti-semite because he’s always been nice to me.

Then last night, Trump made his strangest gambit yet, looping in Disney and a Frozen sticker book into his liberal media conspiracy theory.

Where is the outrage for this Disney book? Is this the 'Star of David' also?
Dishonest media! #Frozen pic.twitter.com/4LJBpSm8xa

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 7, 2016

This man is real. And he’s running for president.

Twitter responded swiftly and without mercy:

Well, that did it. Now my 3 year-old and 2 year-old daughters hate Trump too. #Frozen

— Matt Dentler (@MattDentler) July 7, 2016

#Frozen is about the dangers of trusting a fluffy haired charlatan out 2 take a kingdom away from a woman #ImWithHer pic.twitter.com/c1pqMusRvK

— Laura Kramer (@laurackramer) July 7, 2016

When Trump says #Frozen is anti-Semitic pic.twitter.com/afmmYzBMoZ

— Mike T (@majtague) July 7, 2016

Trump uses #Frozen book to show 5 pt star isn't racist, as if context doesn't matter. A cross isn't racist either, until it burns on a lawn.

— Tanya (@tgreene319) July 7, 2016

Also, @RealDonaldTrump, this star is not atop A PILE OF MONEY and you didn't get it from a white supremacist account https://t.co/f6tPvqlhBu

— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) July 7, 2016

Fortunately Frozen is unpopular and Disney is not powerful so I don't anticipate this backfiring for Trump at all

— Sean T. Collins (@theseantcollins) July 7, 2016

Maybe Trump wants the "parents of young girls who are sick of seeing Frozen over and over" demographic.

— Grace (@GemOfAmara) July 7, 2016

Trump could be talking about Hillary Clinton and the FBI, instead we'll all be making Frozen jokes and memes for the next 48 hours.

— Christopher Ingraham (@_cingraham) July 7, 2016

Trump invoking Frozen. His campaign manager responds "let it go"

— Bethany Albertson (@AlbertsonB2) July 7, 2016

The rest of the campaign should be Trump reviewing Disney movies #Frozen

— Hayes Brown (@HayesBrown) July 7, 2016

Ich habe ein @YouTube-Video positiv bewertet: https://t.co/qWrMAbYtXZ Do You Wanna Build A Wall? - Donald Trump (Frozen Parody)

— - ̗̀Gwizdo ̖́- تام (@Krassfoor) June 25, 2016

But the winner of this round is Hillary Clinton.

Do you want to build a strawman? https://t.co/AoeNTJOGpo

— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) July 7, 2016

Kristy Puchko believes Trump is either a bigot, or will happily court them for votes. Either way, he’s a repulsive fuckwad

Kristy Puchko is the managing editor of Pajiba. You can follow her on Twitter.

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