The White House on Monday joined city, state and Ohio Jewish community leaders in condemning a small group that marched in Columbus on Saturday chanting racist slurs and white nationalist slogans while waving Nazi flags.

WCMH of Columbus, NBC affiliate reported receiving eyewitness reports of the march around 1:45 p.m. Saturday in the state capital’s Short North arts district.

Videos uploaded to social media and geotagged by NBC News in the same neighborhood showed at least 11 people carrying black flags with red swastikas and wearing black outfits with red masks, chanting slogans such as “Bow down, (n-word)! in a megaphone.

“President Biden abhors the hateful poison of Nazism, anti-Semitism, and racism – which are hostile to everything the United States stands for, including protecting the dignity of all our citizens and freedom of worship.” , White House spokesman Andrew Bates said Monday. Morning.

The news comes a week later demonstrators waved Nazi flags in front of a community production of “The Diary of Anne Frank” in Michigan, much to the shock of artists and spectators.

“We will not tolerate hate in Ohio. Neo-Nazis – their faces hidden behind red masks – roamed the streets of Columbus today, waving Nazi flags and spewing vile, racist speeches against people of color and Jews,” the Ohio governor said. Mike DeWine said in a statement posted on.

“There is no place in this state for hatred, intolerance, anti-Semitism or violence, and so we must denounce them wherever we see them,” he said.

Shannon Hardin, President of the Columbus City Council, said the that the community “rejects their pathetic efforts to promote fear and hatred,” adding that he was in contact with law enforcement. He also claimed the march was linked to Donald Trump’s electoral success earlier this month. “I’m sorry the president-elect has emboldened these creeps,” he wrote.

Trump said there were “very fine people on both sides” after a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017 in which a counterprotester was killed. Trump has rejected accusations that he encouraged extremism or that his supporters included Nazis.

“President Trump is supported by Latinos, Black voters, union workers, mom angels, law enforcement officers, border patrol agents and Americans of all faiths,” said his aide. campaign press, Karoline Leavitt, in a statement last month.

Columbus City Attorney Zach Klein said on X that he was also in contact with police about the march and said his office would monitor the group involved. “Take your flags and the masks you hide behind and go home and never come back,” he said.