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Demovictory9

(32,454 posts)
Tue Aug 20, 2019, 04:24 PM Aug 2019

Trump Accuses Jewish Americans Who Vote Democrat Of 'Disloyalty'

Trump Accuses Jewish Americans Who Vote Democrat Of ‘Disloyalty’
The president told reporters that Democratic Jewish Americans show “a great disloyalty,” despite 79% of them voting Democrat in the 2018 midterms.

President Donald Trump said Tuesday that Jewish people in the U.S. who vote for members of the Democratic Party are not loyal.

“I think any Jewish people that vote for a Democrat, I think it shows either a total lack of knowledge or a great disloyalty,” he told reporters when speaking about Israel barring Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), two lawmakers who have been critical of the Israeli government, from entering.

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President Trump on Rep. Tlaib: "Yesterday, I notice for the first time, Tlaib with the tears. All of a sudden, she starts with tears. I don't buy it…I've seen her in a very viscous mood at campaign rallies...I saw a woman that was violent and vicious and out of control."

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-jewish-americans-democrat-disloyalty_n_5d5c4ee2e4b0f667ed69c755

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Trump Accuses Jewish Americans Who Vote Democrat Of 'Disloyalty' (Original Post) Demovictory9 Aug 2019 OP
I'm sure that's going to go over well. NOT onecaliberal Aug 2019 #1
Just my thoughts as well. What an idiot. brush Aug 2019 #16
Guess that makes me both Unamerican and a self-hating Jew. no_hypocrisy Aug 2019 #2
I am part of your club Gothmog Aug 2019 #6
What an idiot awesomerwb1 Aug 2019 #3
And this is what Ohiogal Aug 2019 #26
From The guy who embraces anti-Jewish racists still_one Aug 2019 #4
trump lost the Jewish vote in 2016 and this will not help Gothmog Aug 2019 #5
Despicable beyond words Mike 03 Aug 2019 #7
Wow. RelativelyJones Aug 2019 #8
That is fantastically offensive matt819 Aug 2019 #9
They'd be 'loyal' if they voted to back the guy all the nazis love. Mc Mike Aug 2019 #10
Wow. That is bad. irisblue Aug 2019 #11
Wait a minute...a "viscous" mood???? Maeve Aug 2019 #12
That cracked me up ChubbyStar Aug 2019 #19
He didn't actually say that - Ms. Toad Aug 2019 #23
Goysplaining. Tanuki Aug 2019 #13
Well, talk about winning the hearts and minds......... DFW Aug 2019 #14
Imagine if a Democr--ah, fuck it gratuitous Aug 2019 #15
A supreme asshole and an idiot! n/t RKP5637 Aug 2019 #17
Voters love being called stupid. Good strategy. Takket Aug 2019 #18
He has always thought Skidmore Aug 2019 #20
Um, I guess he doesn't know an Ace from a Joker ChubbyStar Aug 2019 #21
That will go down well peggysue2 Aug 2019 #22
Somehow his cracking wise about Jews and money in front of a Jewish audience went right past him. Vinca Aug 2019 #24
It only means that 21% aren't paying attention. CaptYossarian Aug 2019 #25
With White Supremacists flocking to the Republican Party Vogon_Glory Aug 2019 #27

no_hypocrisy

(46,088 posts)
2. Guess that makes me both Unamerican and a self-hating Jew.
Tue Aug 20, 2019, 04:27 PM
Aug 2019

BTW, if Ivanka's being held out as the All-American Jew, I'm just as happy being something else.

awesomerwb1

(4,267 posts)
3. What an idiot
Tue Aug 20, 2019, 04:28 PM
Aug 2019

If any Dem said that, the russiapublican white supremacists would be all over the news accusing the Dems of being anti-semitic.

Dump is attacking American Jews.

Ohiogal

(31,989 posts)
26. And this is what
Tue Aug 20, 2019, 05:32 PM
Aug 2019

encourages these white terrorists into doing what they're doing. Does no one in trump's inner circle ever tell him to shut his pie hole?

Mike 03

(16,616 posts)
7. Despicable beyond words
Tue Aug 20, 2019, 04:34 PM
Aug 2019

He knows his base isn't enough and he's resorting to the lowest, demented tactics to shame and frighten people into voting for him. I think he's finally into an irreversible downward spiral. He'll be in a straightjacket by December.

matt819

(10,749 posts)
9. That is fantastically offensive
Tue Aug 20, 2019, 04:36 PM
Aug 2019

in so many ways.

Can't wait for the backlash, though it will mean nothing to him.

Mc Mike

(9,114 posts)
10. They'd be 'loyal' if they voted to back the guy all the nazis love.
Tue Aug 20, 2019, 04:38 PM
Aug 2019

Just vote loyally, like Stephen Miller, and Laura Loomer.

Ms. Toad

(34,069 posts)
23. He didn't actually say that -
Tue Aug 20, 2019, 05:08 PM
Aug 2019

it appears to be a C-Span error. (I sacrificed my ears and brain listened to the tape, since my reaction was the same as yours)

DFW

(54,370 posts)
14. Well, talk about winning the hearts and minds.........
Tue Aug 20, 2019, 04:47 PM
Aug 2019

There will no doubt still be some Jews voting for him, but outside of Sheldon Adelson and the Kushner family, I can't imagine who they might be.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
15. Imagine if a Democr--ah, fuck it
Tue Aug 20, 2019, 04:47 PM
Aug 2019

Media folks: Just for a moment, stop and think what the President of the United States is saying here and elsewhere: He's branding not just the media as enemies of the people, he's identifying discrete segments of the population as disloyal to the United States. We've already seen scores of individuals who have taken this rhetoric as a call to arms, and who have taken it upon themselves to carry out the President's orders. Yes, after the fact, sometimes, Trump says that his words were not intended to spark yet another massacre. Then he goes right out and says the same thing all over again, with the same sequelae. You even had a newspaper office shot up by a deranged man activated by Trump's rhetoric. You're not immune; in fact, you and your workplace could be next. Again.

What's it going to take for the media to stand up for the country? Its citizens? Themselves?

peggysue2

(10,828 posts)
22. That will go down well
Tue Aug 20, 2019, 05:06 PM
Aug 2019

This an outrageous comment. The idea that a president would single out a group of Americans and call them disloyal because of their voting preferences is totally unAmerican. It certainly fits the pattern with Trump and his enablers. And the comment about 'lack of knowledge' is laughable. Trump is the most ignorant, ill-informed person to ever squat in the White House.

He deserves full condemnation for this statement.

Vogon_Glory

(9,117 posts)
27. With White Supremacists flocking to the Republican Party
Tue Aug 20, 2019, 06:13 PM
Aug 2019

And the Trumpies welcoming said bigots with open arms, Jews should vote Republican?

For that matter if I were a Mormon, I’d favor my Church walking away from the Trump-publican party, too.

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