AKIPRESS.COM - "Anti-Semitism is horrible. And it's gonna stop and it has to stop," President Donald Trump announced Tuesday during a visit to the National Museum of African-American History and Culture. "You don't know where it's coming from but I hope they catch the people," CNN reported.

Many may feel relieved at this statement, which was occasioned by the latest evidence of a sharp uptick in anti-Semitism in our country. Just over the last few days, we've seen a slew of bomb threats to Jewish community centers around the country and the desecration of over 100 headstones at St. Louis' Jewish cemetery.

President Trump showed some leadership with this communication, but we can ask: Why did it take him so long to decide to acknowledge reality? Just last week, he disheartened many by telling a reporter from a Jewish newspaper that merely asking about anti-Semitism was "not a fair question."

And while it's true that as of now the perpetrators of these crimes have not been found, Trump's assertion that "you don't know where it's coming from" is disingenuous, since he has contributed to the rise of that anti-Semitism in multiple ways from the very start of his campaign for president.