Originally published at: Trump Rails Against ‘Shylocks And Bad People’ In Iowa Speech - TPM – Talking Points Memo
President Donald Trump employed a term often used as a slur against Jewish people as he blasted bankers during a speech in Iowa on Thursday evening. The remark came as he was touting tax cuts in his so-called “Big Beautiful Bill,” which Congress passed earlier in the day. “No death tax, no estate tax, no…
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Trump is a bad person.
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Trump should be asked what he meant by Shylock and if he understands its origin and meaning. He will probably explain how much he loves living at Mar-a-Lago.
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He and his crew of deplorables are not even pretending anymore. The dementia makes him say the quiet parts out loud.
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From the guardian…
"Early in his remarks, which are ongoing, Trump railed against estate taxes, which he said sometimes force people who inherit farms to have to borrow money from banks to pay the tax. The tax-and-spending bill passed by the House on Thursday slightly raises the estate tax exemption.
The president then envisioned a brighter future in which there would be no such tax and so “no going to the banks and borrowing from, in some cases a fine banker, and in some cases shylocks and bad people”."
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This is getting air play.
His racism and anti Semitism is on display
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And, it’s the major universities that need to be shaken down for their antisemitism?
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I guess, like MTG and the Rothschilds, nobody ever told him Shylock was of the hebraic persuasion.
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Bet the slur was added to his speech by Stephen Miller
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I am looking forward to reading a certain obituary, the sooner, the better.
He should eat a few corndogs, just scarf 'em right down.
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I’m not going there.
Donnie found common cause with Stephen over something and the bigotry is the only thing that stands out.
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He’s never had much of an internal editor, but this is starting to look a lot like age related disinhibition.
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This isn’t news. It was just Trump being Trump. In other words it was just another Thursday.
What is news is what you aren’t covering. The rest of the world is quietly isolating the US as it reorders itself. Europe and Canada are simply going around theTACO created trade insanity. Canada in particular is adapting to a world where the United States has gone insane. America is struggling to stay relevant in the world economy.
Why don’t you report on how the US has lost its position in the center of the world and has become just another country having lost its position as the world’s only superpower.
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Tomorrow morning when I wake around 5:00 am would not be too early
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Then I should be more free with my slurs. I’m not and I’m near donnie’s age. When I get peeved at trump I shorten it to TSF which is descriptive swearing and not a slur.
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We’ve gone from “illegals” to jews pretty damn quick.
I can think of one one Kapo who should be looking over his shoulder.
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I remember when Biden got called out for using the term Shylock in 2014. He was referring to unscrupulous payday lenders who were taking advantage of veterans. I can see why he used it at the time because, though it’s offensive for many people of a certain generation it’s kind of an old phrase. I would occasionally hear my older Jewish relatives use it. With Trump he’ll just blurt out what rattles around his feeble brain.
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“Bad” doesn’t come close. How about “a person so damaged as to be nothing more than a poor facsimile of a human being, lacking all human emotions and affections”?
But really good at branding.
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I do not think that Trump’s use of a slur against Jews is any kind of accident, whether of bad speechwriting or a disintegrating brain. This was deliberate, an attempt to connect bankers and probably the Central Bank’s interest rates (which he wants Jerome Powell to loosen) with “the other”; in this case not immigrants, but Jews. He’s trying it out in one of the whitest states in the union and depending on the response, may extend it to speeches in other locales. I hope Harvard made a record of this to bring up if Trump’s trumped up case against the university (they’re “antisemitic”) goes to court. Antisemites should not bring ginned up cases against respected universities over their “antisemitism,” that is their tolerance for speakers of different viewpoints (including Palestinians).
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How about “a powerful predator who has unfortunately been made president by the very people his actions will deliberately hurt.”
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