Sunday, July 06, 2025

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I do not believe him not one iota!
AP News
By  MICHELLE L. PRICE
July 4, 2025


 President Donald Trump says he didn’t know the term “shylock” is considered antisemitic when he used it in a speech to describe unscrupulous moneylenders.

Trump told reporters early Friday after returning from an event in Iowa that he had “never heard it that way” and “never heard that” the term was considered an offensive stereotype about Jews.

Shylock refers to the villainous Jewish moneylender in Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice” who demands a pound of flesh from a debtor.

The Anti-Defamation League, which works to combat antisemitism, said in a statement that the term “evokes a centuries-old antisemitic trope about Jews and greed that is extremely offensive and dangerous. President Trump’s use of the term is very troubling and irresponsible.”
I am 76 yo and I knew what meant before I was even a teenager. I do not believe that at 79 yo old that he didn't know what it meant. I believe that he probably uses the word a lot and never thought about what it really meant.
But the Republican president has also had a history of playing on stereotypes about Jewish people.

He told the Republican Jewish Coalition in 2015 that “you want to control your politicians” and suggested the audience used money to exert control.

1 comment:

  1. “He’s not an antisemite, his daughter is Jewish and he hires Jews”.

    He hires Jews because he thinks they’re smart and crafty. Like Shylock.

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