An interview with Donald Trump took an antisemitic turn as he trashed American Jews for not voting for him and claiming that “evangelical Christians love Israel more than Jewish in this country.”
tropes about Jews in excerpts of an interview released on Friday and claimed that they “either don’t like Israel or don’t care about Israel.”
During the interview with journalist Barak Ravid, first reported by The Hill, Trump said that “there’s people in this country that are Jewish — no longer love Israel. I’ll tell you, the evangelical Christians love Israel more than the Jews in this country,” Trump said.
The former president also used common antisemitic tropes about Jewish people having power over Congress and in the media during the interview, as well as suggesting that all Jewish people vote for one political party, The Hill noted.
“It used to be that Israel had absolute power over Congress. And today, I think it’s the exact opposite,” Trump said. “And I think Obama and Biden did that. And yet in the election, they still get a lot of votes from Jewish people, which tells you that the Jewish people, and I’ve said this for a long time, the Jewish people in the United States either don’t like Israel or don’t care about Israel,” the former president continued.
He then took aim at the Jewish people running the New York Times.
“I mean, you look at the New York Times, The New York Times hates Israel — hates ’em. And there’s Jewish people that run the New York Times, I mean the Sulzberger family,” he added.
Trump’s remarks were harshly criticized by organizations on social media.
“Why is Mr. Trump once again fueling dangerous stereotypes about Jews?” the American Jewish Committee tweeted.
“His past support for Israel doesn’t give him license to traffic in radioactive antisemitic tropes — or peddle unfounded conclusions about the unbreakable ties that bind American Jews to Israel. Enough!” the organization added.
Other critics took to Twitter to blast the former president’s comments.
New quotes from Trump to @BarakRavid: Most US Jews don't love Israel. Exclusive for Unholy podcast
@Freedland pic.twitter.com/Hv4joYkbCN— Yonit Levi (@LeviYonit) December 17, 2021
Is this a surprise to anyone? 🤔 pic.twitter.com/oyHO69vHyC
— 𖤐 Carneades 𖤐 (@TheDNAtheist) December 17, 2021
Ok… guess Trump really does not want any votes from American Jews.
The ignorance of these comments is off the charts.
— (((Alan Rosenblatt, PhD))) (@DrDigiPol) December 17, 2021
— Sedition is bad (@marykaybaldino) December 17, 2021
The most important quote from this Donald Trump clip: "it used to be Israel had absolute control over congress….." 😱 then Obama changed that. Thank you Obama!
— MrsDoubtFire🇺🇲 (@MrsDoubtFireSF) December 17, 2021
I can't get past him lamenting that Israel used to have absolute control over Congress and now they don't…like thats a bad thing /wtf?#ThanksObama
— THEE TDog🌊🇺🇸4⃣4⃣🐮🥀✂️📎🆘 (@TrumpDog1) December 17, 2021
"It used to be that Israel had absolute power over Congress."
Are we supposed to think that was a good thing?
— Casey (@CatCaseyAZ) December 17, 2021
“That was some weird shit.”
— George W. Bush, Jan. 20, 2017— Bathsheba Dreams in Blue (@Inkling61) December 17, 2021
How is he still considered competent?
— esther walton (@estherwalton74) December 17, 2021
Always showing he has a 12 year old’s understanding of the world.
— LasVegasLife (@JasonB1226) December 17, 2021
Neither shocked nor surprised. You know what WOULD BE shocking? If we found out Trump gave all his money to charity and went to church.
— PoliticalMama (@politicalmablog) December 17, 2021
How do you say you are antiSemitic without saying you are antiSemitic?
— BlackLiberal (@BlackLiberalMan) December 17, 2021
