Posted on 08/26/2019 5:00:47 AM PDT by Kaslin
It’s difficult to imagine any single individual being more maligned and misinterpreted by a willing mass media than President Donald Trump. Regardless of the words he utters or the order he utters them in, if it’s possible to take them out of context in order to portray the president in a bad light, they will do it, every single time.
So it was last week, when Trump got into a heap of trouble with the libs, particularly Jewish libs, for using the D word - as in “disloyal” - not once, but twice to describe Jewish folks who vote Democratic.
“Where has the Democratic Party gone? Where have they gone where they are defending these two people over the state of Israel? 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 Tuesday. Then, the very next day, he followed that up with this: "In my opinion, you vote for a Democrat, you're being very disloyal to Jewish people, and you're being very disloyal to Israel, and only weak people would say anything other than that.”
In four sentences over two days, the president of the United States managed to tick off 75 plus percent of American Jews by calling them both ignorant and disloyal. Now “ignorant” is one thing. I could make a pretty credible argument that anyone of any IQ level who votes Democratic is, well, pretty ignorant, at least insofar as their knowledge of general history, historical patterns, current events, economics, human nature, and geopolitics is concerned. And at least in my own view, I’d be correct (for whatever that’s worth). But “disloyal” is another thing altogether, especially when it comes to Jewish people. In fact, it’s actually an old antisemitic canard dating back to the period of Egyptian bondage, implying that Jews are somehow disloyal to the nations in which they reside.
But Trump clearly wasn’t saying Jewish Democrats are being disloyal to America. If you read both quotes carefully, in context, they clearly mean being disloyal to Israel. But that didn’t stop the president - who has a Jewish son-in-law, a converted Jewish daughter, and Jewish grandchildren - from being accused of antisemitism.
Bend the Arc: Jewish Action CEO Stosh Cotler said, “President Trump’s abhorrent statement today accusing the vast majority of Jewish Americans who oppose him of ‘disloyalty’ is textbook antisemitism and should be called out as such, without hesitation.”
“We are sick and tired of Trump’s repeated use of anti-Semitic tropes and his inciting of hate and violence against Jews,” tweeted the Jewish Democratic Council of America. “The Jewish community is less safe today because of Donald Trump.”
“At a time when anti-Semitic incidents have increased — due to the president’s emboldening of white nationalism — Trump is repeating an anti-Semitic trope,” said Jewish Democratic Council of America executive director Halie Soifer.
Author Jonathan Gilliam accused Trump of using the “same language and propaganda as Hitler.”
New York City comptroller Scott Stringer wrote: “As a Jew (and lifelong Democrat) this language from the president evokes an ugly past. Accusing 75 percent of the Jewish community of ‘disloyalty’ is dangerous. If Donald Trump wants to find who’s being disloyal to America, he can start by looking in the mirror.”
“Donald Trump wants you to believe American Jews are ‘disloyal’ towards Israel & the United States b/c the majority of U.S. Jews support Democrats,” liberal pastor Chuck Currietweeted. “I guess today is anti-Semitism day at The White House.”
Fox News contributor Jessica Tarlov called Trump’s comments “disgusting” during a Fox News “Outnumbered” segment on the topic: “He called me, a Democratic Jewish voter in America, ‘dumb and disloyal.’ That is disgusting,” she said. “He has no place using that trope.”
The Huffington Post accused Trump of reviving “an antisemitic attack” on Jewish Democrats.”
Writing for the Daily Beast, Jay Michaelson, seeming to at least understood the original intent of the president’s statement, nevertheless accused Trump of having “inverted” the accusation: “His claim—besides being absurd, offensive, manipulative, and reprehensible—is that American Jews are being disloyal by not supporting Israel enough. The problem isn’t that we’re betraying America. The problem is that we’re betraying Israel. American Jews, long suspected of ‘dual loyalty,’ are now being accused of not being dual-loyal-enough.”
Trump wasn’t without defenders, however, including author and former Israeli Air Force pilot Tal Keinan, who called media reactions to Trump’s comments, particularly attempts to label him as antisemitic, “disingenuous.” He even went so far as to thank Fox News anchor Gillian Turner for playing “the whole clip” of Trump’s comments.
“First of all, I’m glad you played the whole clip, because I think the president makes it clear he’s talking about disloyalty to the Jewish people and to Israel, not disloyalty to the United States, and that’s an important distinction,” said Keinan. “There’s been some disingenuous reactions to that. He was not raising the old canard.”
No, indeed he was not. But the fact that the media used such a flimsy pretext to unjustly try to brand the president with one of the worst labels ever says everything about their blatant bias and dishonesty.
LOL. They can dish it out but they can’t take it.
Very good analysis show the Fake News propagandizing and twisting the events.
I told my brother, well at least the President forces you to take a side every time he speaks about an issue.
The butt hurt is strong in these people.
Trumps beloved daughter and son-in-law are both Jewish.
Good luck with that one.
Well, the president not only sucks at being a racist, he’s just as lousy being an anti-semite.
Whoa. What sort of incidents are you talking about? Bus bombings? I don't know if there have been any of those since President Trump took office. Rocket attacks? Those have been happening for decades before President Trump took office. Be more specific, Jessica. Whatever incidents you might be able to cite, I dare say they've been perpetrated by your fellow FredocRATS of another religion.
It is a well-known tactic of traitorous leftists to hypocritically accuse conservatives, especially their leaders, of doing what leftists have been doing all along.
Yeah, that’s why he moved our embassy to Jerusalem and declared Jerusalem the proper capitol of Israel.
Hopefully, 70 million voters know how useless the main stream media is. I’m optimistic if President Trump gets re-elected, but severely pessimistic if he does not. The slippery slope’s coefficient of friction las a low as ever in 2016, but it threaten to get much slicker with this current pack of commies from the left.
So, a lot of U.S. Jews are falsely portraying Trump like Hitler’s propaganda machine falsely portrayed Jews.
How tragically ironic. Those Jews are disloyal to both Israel and America. They are, actually, hitting themselves. Why do so many Miseryalites continually hit themselves?
Interesting that Talib and Omar haven’t rallied around the offended Jews.
Strange that so many Jews are comfortable being on the same side of the political aisle as actual anti-Semites, (i.e., mooslims).
It’s, of course, the media.
Here is something written by an AP “reporter”, it’s totally propaganda and while the AP says this dickwad (Steve Peoples) is a “veteran journalist” he is nothing of the sort. He’s a political hack. Just read this BS and tell me I’m wrong. It’s opinion and not very good opinion:
More media bias twisting people’s words. The strive to damage President Trump without letup. The message never changes.
"Disloyalty" to anything is a minor footnote.
All he was saying was that Jews are not really Americans and that he believes their primary loyalty is to Israel.
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