The director of the Anne Frank Center, Steven Goldstein, on Tuesday got into a fiery exchange with CNN commentator Kayleigh McEnany over President Trump’s recent remarks denouncing anti-Semitism.

Trump on Tuesday called anti-Semitism "horrible" in public remarks. But some critics, including the center, said Trump had been too slow to speak out amid a recent wave of incidents targeting Jewish groups across the country.

McEnany, a Trump supporter, challenged Goldstein's criticisms on CNN's "Out Front," asking if he believed the president was anti-Semitic.

“You think the president does not like Jews and is prejudiced against Jews? You think that about the President of the United States,” McEnany asked.

“You bet,” Goldstein responded.

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From there, the exchange only escalated.

McEnany noted that Trump's daughter, Ivanka Trump, had converted to Judaism before marrying Jared Kushner, who is also Jewish.

“Does he hate his daughter? Does he hate his son-in-law,” McEnany asked.

“I am tired of commentators like you from the right trotting out his daughter, trotting out his son-in-law as talking points against the president's anti-Semitism,” Goldstein fired back.

“They are Jewish, but that is not a talking point against anti-Semitism, and that is a disgrace. Have you no ethics?” he added.

The debate between McEnany and Goldstein comes as a surge in anti-Semitic incidents has Jewish and civil rights groups on edge.

Over 50 Jewish community centers have received threats in the past year, including bomb threats over the weekend which forced 11 centers to close their doors. In St. Louis on Monday, in a separate incident, vandals knocked over tombstones at a Jewish cemetery.

Jewish groups have been pressing Trump to directly speak out against such acts in recent weeks and said he had missed opportunities to do so.

During a press conference last week with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump was asked about anti-Semitism. The president responded by citing the size of his Electoral College victory and his son-in-law and daughter and said he would help “stop long-simmering racism.”

A day later, Trump took offense at a question from a Jewish reporter, telling him to sit down and adding that he was the "the least anti-Semitic person that you've ever seen in your entire life."

On Tuesday, during a tour of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Trump addressed the issue.

"The anti-Semitic threats targeting our Jewish community and community centers are horrible and are a painful and a very sad reminder of the work that still must be done to root out hate and prejudice and evil," he had said.

The Anne Frank Center, though, called those remarks "too little, too late."

Goldstein on Tuesday called Trump's statement "a pathetic asterisk of condescension after weeks in which he and his staff have committed grotesque acts and omissions reflecting Antisemitism, yet day after day have refused to apologize and correct the record."