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Donald Trump on Wednesday used the movie "Frozen" to defend a controversial weekend tweet.

In an attempt to push back against criticism of the tweet, which many viewed as anti-Semitic, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee posted a tweet of a book about the Disney film "Frozen" that contained a six-pointed star.

"Where is the outrage for this Disney book?" he posted. "Is this the 'Star of David' also? Dishonest media! #Frozen"

The image used in the tweet was originally posted to a pro-Trump message board on Reddit under the thread "Disney is Anti-Semitic."

Aware of the ongoing firestorm, Hillary Clinton's campaign was quick to fire back a response from the presumptive Democratic nominee's Twitter account.

"Do you want to build a strawman?" she tweeted, a reference to a song from the movie.

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Trump, his campaign, and fellow surrogates have kept controversy over his Saturday tweet alive in the news by continuing to defend it.

The original weekend tweet contained an image of a six-pointed star, similar to the symbol most commonly known as the Jewish Star of David, over a pile of money. The star was inscribed with the words "most corrupt candidate ever" and appeared next to an image of Clinton.

Trump told an Ohio audience on Wednesday that he regretted his campaign's decision to scrub the image from his account.

"'You shouldn't have taken it down,'" he said, as if he were speaking to Dan Scavino, the senior aide who posted the tweet. "You know they took the star down. I said, 'Too bad, you should've left it up. I would've rather defended it. Just leave it up and say no that's not a Star of David — it's just a star.'"