President Trump announced yesterday on Truth Social that he is nominating Yehuda Kaploun as the United States Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism, Ambassador-at-Large. According to The Forward:
Trump’s announcement elicited a wave of sharply antisemitic comments on the social network….
Kaploun is affiliated with Chabad, the Orthodox movement, and was a fundraiser and surrogate for Trump during last year’s campaign…..
Kaploun is replacing Deborah Lipstadt.
Trump also announced on X (formerly Twitter) that he is nominating former Congressman Mark Walker as Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom. In his own post on X, Walker expressed his thanks to Trump, saying in part:
As a former minister, along with serving in Congressional leadership, I’m open-eyed to the bad actors and regions committing these atrocities against people of faith.
Both Kaploun’s and Walker’s nominations are required to be confirmed by the Senate. The White House has not indicated on its website that the nominations have yet been formally submitted to the Senate.