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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,212 posts)
Tue Aug 20, 2019, 06:48 PM Aug 2019

Trump Called Out For Deriding Most Jews in America as Ignorant or Disloyal: 'Blatantly Anti-Semitic'

President Donald Trump is coming under heavy criticism for a comment he made during a White House pool spray Tuesday afternoon in which he called American Jews who vote for Democrats either ignorant or disloyal.

“I think any Jewish people that vote for a Democrat — I think it shows either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty,” Trump said from the Oval Office.

In the 2018 midterms, according to the Pew Research Center, 79 percent of Jewish Americans voted Democratic in their local House race. In 2016, 71 percent voted for Hillary Clinton, compared to 24 percent for the president.

The condemnation was swift and bipartisan.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-called-out-for-deriding-most-jews-in-america-as-ignorant-or-disloyal-blatantly-anti-semitic/ar-AAG4Uox?li=BBnb7Kz

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Trump Called Out For Deriding Most Jews in America as Ignorant or Disloyal: 'Blatantly Anti-Semitic' (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2019 OP
Loyalty. He means obedience and he's not just talking about Jewish people underpants Aug 2019 #1
Just what was needed to rally them to his cause. bluedigger Aug 2019 #2
Isn't Jared a Jew and a Democrat? Not that either group wants to claim him. Vinca Aug 2019 #3
Disloyalty to who or what? Caliman73 Aug 2019 #4
Imagine that statement won't go over well FloridaBlues Aug 2019 #5

underpants

(182,883 posts)
1. Loyalty. He means obedience and he's not just talking about Jewish people
Tue Aug 20, 2019, 06:57 PM
Aug 2019

Total obedience and dependence on him is his bubble. His kids are a perfect example. Not one of them has strayed away to get their own life. He pits people against each other for his amusement.

As a campaign ploy this is him trying to establish that not supporting him is unpatriotic....like how he supported Obama.

bluedigger

(17,087 posts)
2. Just what was needed to rally them to his cause.
Tue Aug 20, 2019, 07:02 PM
Aug 2019

After all, when has accusing Jews of disloyalty ever ended badly?

Caliman73

(11,744 posts)
4. Disloyalty to who or what?
Tue Aug 20, 2019, 07:43 PM
Aug 2019

Jewish people, like all people have left leaning, moderates, and conservatives. Typically more left leaning but still. The Democratic party has always been a coalition of marginalized groups along with a liberal White base. The Democrats have always offered more in terms of policy to poor and middle income earners with Republicans catering to mainly the wealthy.

I am not understanding who Jewish people are supposed to be loyal to and why.

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