Donald Trump is facing widespread criticism for launching an unprovoked attack on American Jews for what he argued was their insufficient praise of his policies toward Israel, warning that they need to “get their act together” before “it is too late!”
“No President has done more for Israel than I have,” Trump wrote before saying it was somewhat surprising that “our wonderful Evangelicals are far more appreciative of this than the people of the Jewish faith, especially those living in the U.S.”
During Monday’s edition of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” the panelists tried to figure out what was behind Trump’s “repulsive” attack.
“No one knows,” panelist Jonathan Lemire replied before adding, “It seems to have come out of nowhere, this rant from the former president over the weekend. But he has danced very dangerous to anti-Semitic remarks before, a couple moments during the campaign.”
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“His defense would be my daughter is married to someone who is Jewish, Jared Kushner, therefore I can’t be anti-Semitic,” he added. “But this is repulsive stuff, and it was widely condemned, not just by the usual Democrats, there were conservatives who spoke out against this, obviously the Anti-Defamation League and other groups worried about what this could yield — we haven’t gotten anything else from the Trump camp on this.”
“Well, and again, I mean, even the fine line, Jews need to basically ‘get their act together before it’s too late,’ is obviously deeply disturbing because it’s not sending a dog whistle — it’s an out and out threat,” Scarborough interjected.
“The thing is, there were some observers that said, as always, it’s not about Jews in Israel, it’s not about Jews in America, it’s always about Donald Trump,” he continued. “He’s still smarting by the fact that over three out of four Jews in America voted for Joe Biden, so there are people close to him that suggest that still rankles him that he got beaten so badly among Jewish voters in America.”
“But to do that, and say basically they better get their act together before it’s too late, sounds ominous. It sounds ominous like saying that Mitch McConnell has a quote ‘death wish’,” he added.
Watch the discussion below from MSNBC:
