A Disney character from the movie Frozen performs on a float at Tokyo Disneyland on January 11. | Getty Trump cites Disney's 'Frozen' in defense of controversial tweet

Donald Trump invoked a Disney book Thursday night to argue that his tweet featuring an image of Hillary Clinton, a pile of cash and a six-pointed star was not anti-Semitic, as many have alleged, keeping the controversy alive for the yet another day.

"Where is the outrage for this Disney book? Is this the 'Star of David' also? Dishonest media! #Frozen" the presumptive Republican nominee said, referencing the controversy that embroiled the campaign over the holiday weekend.

Advertisement 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







The Clinton campaign, which had moved quickly to condemn Trump's initial tweet, sarcastically fired back while referencing one of the movie's hit songs.

"Do you want to build a strawman?" Clinton's account tweeted in reference to the song, "Do You Want to Build a Snowman?"

Do you want to build a strawman? https://t.co/AoeNTJOGpo — Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) July 7, 2016







The image used to make the Disney comparison appears to have begun circulating on a Reddit thread devoted to the Republican candidate before making the rounds on social media and other sites sarcastically questioning why the company wasn't facing the same backlash as Trump.

"We shouldn’t have taken it down. We should’ve left it up. I would have rather defended it," Trump said at a Thursday night rally in Cincinatti, Ohio. “It’s a star! And it actually looks like a sheriff’s star! It could’ve been a star for anything."

Trump, who has been widely criticized for using anti-Semitic imagery in the original tweet, was staunchly defended earlier Wednesday by his Jewish son in law, New York Observer publisher Jared Kushner.

“My father-in-law is not an anti-Semite," Kushner, who is married to Trump's daughter, Ivanka, wrote in an op-ed. "The fact is that my father in law is an incredibly loving and tolerant person who has embraced my family and our Judaism since I began dating my wife."