Yo Semite! Trump Bashes Jewish Leaders For Not Being "Loyal" To Him After He Hangs Out With Holocaust-Denying, Hitler-Loving Nazis
Dolt 45 responds to his own posts by thanking himself for posting them, while also spamming his Troth Senchal feed with at least 37 articles and videos in under 12 hours. Just a normal Friday.
A man who has been accused of rape, sexual assault, and sexual harassment by at least 25 women, who has been credibly accused of committing at least 56 criminal offenses since 2015*, and whose business this week was found guilty on 17 counts of criminal tax fraud and falsifying business records in a fifteen-year scheme to defraud tax authorities says “Jewish Leaders” are acting disloyal for not cheering him after he hung out with people who refer to themselves as Nazis, proudly proclaim their love and admiration for Hitler, and deny the Holocaust occurred.
“How quickly Jewish Leaders forgot that I was the best, by far, President for Israel. They should be ashamed of themselves.”
*: “That total [of 56 crimes] only reflects allegations relating to his time in or running for office and omits, for instance, Trump’s criminal exposure for fraudulent business dealings.”
It’s far from the first time Trump has whined that various Jewish people were not praising him enough.
August 2019: “I think Jewish people that vote for a Democrat — I think it shows either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty.”
October 2022: “No President has done more for Israel than I have. Somewhat surprisingly, however, our wonderful Evangelicals are far more appreciative of this than the people of the Jewish faith, especially those living in the U.S. Those living in Israel, though, are a different story — Highest approval rating in the World, could easily be P.M.! U.S. Jews have to get their act together and appreciate what they have in Israel — Before it is too late!”
Accusing Jews of disloyality is an old anti-semtic trope. As Emma Goldberg of The Guardian wrote in 2019:
There’s a sordid history to charges of Jewish dual loyalty in the US. In the early years of the second world war, isolationists opposed to American involvement dismissed the war as little more than a “Jewish cause”. Charles Lindbergh berated Jewish leaders for “agitating for war”. Decades later, when the US senator Joe Lieberman ran on the Democratic ticket for vice-president, pundits questioned whether he was more loyal to Israel than to the US. During the democratic primaries in 2015, the Vermont senator Bernie Sanders was challenged on his “dual citizenship” with Israel.
The larger question animating these statements is clear: when push comes to shove, will you disavow your differences? As many writers and thinkers have shown, white American political leaders have spent much of the country’s history — from slavery, to Jim Crow, to the disenfranchised carceral state — attempting to construct an American patriotism whose core tenet is whiteness. That is a project white Jews can fit into, so long as they show their ethnic roots don’t run too deep.
In December 2021, David Remnick of The New Yorker asked: “Is Donald Trump an Anti-Semite?”:
Trump’s gestures of contempt for Latinos and Black Americans are so numerous that they have tended to eclipse his other prejudices. But he has not failed to shower his occasional attentions on Jews. In the 2016 campaign, Trump ran an ad attacking a “global power structure” showing images of three Jews: the financier George Soros, the then chair of the Federal Reserve Janet Yellen, and the investment banker Lloyd Blankfein. One of Trump’s tweets aimed at Hillary Clinton (“Most Corrupt Candidate Ever!”) deployed images of the six-pointed Star of David and stacks of currency. Trump rebuffed the criticism; his social-media director said the star was that of a “sheriff’s badge.”
When I reminded Jonathan Freedland about Trump’s Jewish kinfolk and associates, he said that this was a “familiar type”—the philo-Semitic anti-Semite. He recalled Trump’s remark when he was in the casino business: “I’ve got Black accountants at Trump Castle and Trump Plaza. Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day.” (Trump later denied he said this.) Freedland compared Trump with Tony Soprano, who “is happy to speak disparagingly of Jews” but has Jewish associates, such as Herman (Hesh) Rabkin, who made a fortune ripping off Black musicians. “The type has existed for quite a long time, and has a history—the type who says he admires ‘their’ ingenuity and cunning,” Freedland said. He added, “The point about evangelicals—remember that their support comes not from a warm embrace but from looking forward to a day of rapture, when Jews are either converted or incinerated in a heavenly fire. Or take his notion that, if American Jews don’t support what he says, they are ungrateful and he can question their loyalty. He sees Jews as foreign and supplicants who should be grateful to him.”
Arielle Angel, who edits the left-wing magazine Jewish Currents, told me that, although she believes Trump is an anti-Semite, she didn’t see why his most recent comments were news. “I am surprised by the surprise,” she said . . .
ALL CAPS MELTDOWN!!!
And by “weird”, we mean completely logical since they have been proven over and over again to be fighting for the same side.
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Trump is not exactly accusing Jews of dual loyalties--he assumes that as a starting point, naturally. But he can't get over their disloyalty--to him personally (of course, he conflates loyalty to him with loyalty to country.) His theory is that he was "nice" to Jews (how he loves that stupid adjective), so they have to be nice to him in return.