WASHINGTON (JTA) – Former President Donald Trump said Jewish leaders “lack loyalty” and “should be ashamed of themselves,” his latest broadside against the American Jewish community, this time because of criticism of his dinner with two prominent antisemitic figures.
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“How quickly Jewish Leaders forgot that I was the best, by far, President for Israel,” Trump said Friday on his social media platform Truth Social before making it an official statement under his campaign for the 2024 presidency. “They should be ashamed of themselves. This lack of loyalty to their greatest friends and allies is why large numbers in Congress, and so many others, have stopped giving support to Israel.”
This is not the first time Trump has accused American Jews of being disloyal, but in the past he has said they were not loyal enough to Israel, not other “greatest friends.” Calling out “Jewish leaders” instead of Jewish Democratic voters also is a new point of rhetoric.
In 2019, Trump said that any Jew who votes for a Democrat shows “a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty.”
The statement comes less than three weeks after a dinner Trump held with Nick Fuentes, who questions the Holocaust and is labeled a white supremacist by the Anti-Defamation League, and Kanye West, the rapper who now goes by Ye and who has for months peddled a persistent stream of antisemitic invective.
Mainstream Jewish groups have lambasted Trump, but so have Republicans, including a number of Jewish Republicans who were close to him and defended him in the past.
Trump’s post was attached to an op-ed by Wayne Allyn Root, an evangelical Christian who was born Jewish and who defended Trump in 2019, the first time the former president said Jews were disloyal.
In the op-ed, which appeared on various right-wing platforms, Root as he has in the past emphasizes his Jewish roots: “Let me start with a disclaimer: I’m a Jew.” Root repeats arguments Trump has advanced in his defense of the West-Fuentes meeting: that the former president is more supportive of Israel than Democrats are, that West is an old friend who was in trouble and that he did not know who Fuentes was.
Prez, Stop stoking antisemitism publicly, to support your failing bid for 2024. It brings to mind the perennial cow that kicks the bucket of milk it
provides. In this case, it spells danger for his Jewish supporters. His words make me, a Trump supporter, entirely lose my trust. You invited antisemites, and you blame Jews?
Loyalty? Most Americans believe in being loyal to America, the Constitution, to our system of checks & balances, to our history and fighting fascism, to the memory of 450,000+ American dead in WW2 who fought rashas. Not loyalty to one person.
Mr Trump – you’d be surprised as to how may Jews voted for you in 2016 & 2020 – more than you think, but you to stop criticizing others and learn to stop shooting from the hip
Always a quid pro quo, and the quo is never enough
TPeople have short memories. Trump was a friend to Israel but there were better friends, like LBJ. AND LBJ was an Ohei Yisroel. He risked his career to help get Jews out of Germany and get them into the US.
Yidden, just ignore this individual. He will not be the Republican nominee again. If the news media would just ignore him, he would quickly become irrelevant.
maybe now will we realize how deranged, dangerous this child man is.
we Jews are loyal, to this Hashem, his creation, and country we live in.
not to any particular politician. definitely not to a losing, lying, friend of anti-Semites, resurrection inciter.
all this deranged goy can think of is who is loyal to ME, who is against ME. its all ME ME ME and nothing else.
Ah ferd bleibt a ferd!
Is this like Martin Luther ymshmo (not King for those not aware) or Muhammad ymshmo who originally feted Jews and professed live for them but immediately went on murderous rampages once the Jews rejected their idolatrous religions? I hope not
Shoin! (Or is it “Zest!”?) With “friends” like Trump, who needs enemies?
President Trump is correct. We should him a little Hakoras Hatov
Heard Rep Lawler on the news today. So very glad he won, and he is a republican who has COMMON sense, unlike many others in that party
Members of Trump’s religion should learn to obey our laws and respect the results of our elections. Members of his religion may question what right I have as an outsider to criticize followers of Trump’s religion calling my criticism chutzpah.
Hope the jews vote Republican candidate’s BUT not for Trump
According to His Eminence The Duck, anyone who doesn’t support his push to be President for Life is branded “disloyal.”
Look how crazed these Trump hating ingrates are. Obama meeting Wright & Farriktekann doesn’t bother them. Look at how for example , Trump stopped the dangerous Iran deal that the Kenyan conceived You just know there’s something or somebody behind this Trump hatred by shtunkyiddlach. Look at how nuts they are. Read their sewage here and weep.
What have you done for me lately? You were a good President for 4 years. You lost in 2020. It’s time to move forward. We can’t kiss your toes forever. We have to live to see tommorow. Now, you’ve become the annoying guest who refuses to leave. You have a hot wife. Go home and enjoy the rest of your life.
He is as usual 100% right. Zwiebel attacks but is silent on the Kenyan hosting farrakhan, silent on hakeem jeffries mentor and uncle as personal friend ilhan omar.
Trump has a point. He was a great friend to Israel during his presidency.
Yes it was wrong to have met with Kanye West and Fuentes.
But one mistake does not outweigh 4 years of doing good for the Jewish people.
A socialist liberal leftist Jew, is a socialist liberal leftist first. That is their religion. They happen to be Jewish, maybe.
A Jewish conservative, or a Jewish Republican is Jewish first and politically conservative or Republican second .
That’s why the titles are in that order.
It all goes according to what is stronger, the religion.
Trump was the best for Jews President in our country’s history. And if he runs again, the publication of koras hatoiv will force me to vote for him.
Having this out of the way, he ought to step aside. He should read the tea leaves of the last election, where virtually all candidates he supported and promoted, in contested elections, lost very significantly. (Scoundrels Waler, Mehmet, seriously?) Not only they lost all Democreep votes, as was to be expected, they lost virtually all independent uncommitted votes, which is highly alarming.
Almost two years until November 2024 is a very long time and many unforeseen events will undoubtedly happen to change the votes, but it does look that Trump doesn’t have a path to either nomination or victory. In the meantime, he will do his utmost to destroy strong viable candidates DeSantis and Haley. He already started and much more to come. I hope he reconsiders.
A Hitler in the making…
With all the down votes of pro-trump comments and all the upvotes for the anti-trump comments, it looks like the ex Twitter employees infiltrated the VIN News website. Simply mind boggling. You prove Trump’s point. No respect or gratitude to the former POTUS, that fought like heck for the land and the people of Israel and, goes without saying, working everyday to make America great again in every aspect; all while the filthy, disgraceful Democrats were (and still are) looking to destroy him with lies, lies and more lies Non-Stop!
He’s 100% correct!! Moved mountains for us and iwas a good friend of the Jews when president and even prior to that, and a great many news kicked him in the gut. Hakaras hatov is a key trait of the Jewish nation. So much for that. I can’t even fault him if he now has a dislike/bitter taste toward Jews. What else could be expected?
President Trump is 100% right.
For all the JINO (Jewish-in-name-only) organizations and “leaders”, especially as they are also Zionist, they should have eternal gratitude to President Trump for all he did for Jews here and for the Zionist State.
Unfortunately, an Agudah lay leader spokesman joined the above group of miscreants in publicly condemning President Trump after his recent meeting with those people. I am curious which, if any, moetzes members signed off on that condemnation.
Remember this everyone “ to be a man you must beat the man “ trump will beat anyone at any time
Before this gets blown out of proportion, Trump means to refer to the non torah jews who make up their own religion such as caring and having pity for Palestinians who seek to murder us equality ( or accept gays or that fighting climate change is the mitzvah of the year). The J street rashim type. He isn’t referring to the frum torah jews right now. He means the ones the continuously call him a Hitler after all he did for us. The fakers.
Of course hs is still wrong for meeting with these haters. But thats like Obama and Rev. wright. It doesn’t make him a hater