Donald Trump Jr. criticized the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Wednesday for including the term "100%" in its list of Glossary terms that are related to extremism and hate.
Trump Jr., the eldest son of former President Donald Trump, posted about the term on his Truth Social account Wednesday afternoon, writing that ADL was "now saying the term 100% is a white supremacist trope."
"These people are 100% F-ing insane," the post continued. "This is a term used by virtually anyone discussing probability on a daily basis. They will find racism in anything and everything and it needs to stop now! Enough of this BS!"
The ADL writes on its website that the term "100%" is "shorthand for '100% white'" and that the phrase is used by white supremacists or those who adhere to the belief that white people are superior and should dominate society.
The Glossary page highlighted in Donald Trump Jr.'s post does not include the full description that the ADL provides for the term "100%." The ADL on Wednesday night directed Newsweek to the organization's full definition of the term, which reads that "variations" exist.
"All the symbols depicted here must be evaluated in the context in which they appear," the ADL added in a statement to Newsweek. "Few symbols represent just one idea or are used exclusively by one group."
"For example, the Confederate Flag is a symbol that is frequently used by white supremacists but which also has been used by people and groups that are not racist," the league continued. "Similarly, other symbols in this database may be significant to people who are not extreme or racist."
The ADL added that it was updating the Glossary to include the term's full description, as well as a note that reads, "Caution must be used in evaluating instances of this symbol's use, as most uses of this symbol are not, in fact, white supremacist in nature."
The group describes itself as the "leading anti-hate organization in the world" and is founded on Jewish values. The organization has previously criticized former President Trump, the presumptive 2024 Republican nominee, for actions and rhetoric that it says are defamatory.
Jonathan Greenblatt, the chief executive officer of ADL, spoke with Newsweek earlier this month after the former president received immense amounts of backlash for saying on a conservative podcast, "Any Jewish person that votes for Democrats hates their religion."
"Accusing Jews of hating their religion because they might vote for a particular party is defamatory and patently false," Greenblatt said at the time. "Serious leaders who care about the historic US-Israel alliance should focus on strengthening, rather than unraveling, bipartisan support for the State of Israel."
The ADL also criticized Donald Trump Jr. before the 2016 presidential election after he invoked Holocaust imagery while complaining about the way the media was treating his father. During an interview with a Philadelphia radio station in September 2016, the former president's son said that the press would be "warming up the gas chamber right now" if Republicans lied the way that Democrats were.
At the time of his statement, the ADL wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter, that "Trivialization of the Holocaust and gas chambers is NEVER okay," adding in a second post, "@DonaldJTrumpJr: We hope you understand the sensitivity and hurt of making Holocaust jokes. We hope you retract."
Update 03/27/24, 8:17 p.m. ET: This article has been updated with additional comment from the ADL.
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