Date: April 6, 2019 at 2:52:18 PM EDT
Subject: WH travel pool report #5-RJC, Protesters, Adelson
POTUS took the stage at 11:45am local time at the Republican Jewish Coalition annual meeting to the tune of “”God Bless the USA.” He paced back and forth across the stage while the song played and the crowd cheered.
Attendees rose to their feet (many even jumping onto their seats to get a better view. People in the audience waved various signs, including one that read, simply, “Trump” in English and Hebrew; signs that say “we support President Trump” and “We are Jews for Trump.”
A number of people also donned red yarmulkes that say “Trump” and the standard red MAGA hats.
“Shabbat Shalom” his speech began. Just then, a number of protesters jumped up on their chairs just before President Trump began speaking. They chanted: “Jews are here to stay; occupation is OK” . (PLEASE DOUBLE CHECK THIS — IT WAS HARD TO HEAR THE LATTER PART). The crowd pulled them off their chairs and chanted in unison “USA! USA!”
The speech is airing live so I will only send highlights.
Worth noting that Republican donor and Trump supporter Sheldon Adelson and his wife Miriam arrived in a wheelchair before President Trump took the stage, prompting the speaker to pause and clap. The folks gathered in the auditorium jumped to their feet to cheer him Adelson is a major funder of the RJC.
Date: April 6, 2019 at 2:54:52 PM EDT
Subject: WH travel pool report #5a-— correcting protesters chant
Folks — one of my great co-poolers saw one of the protesters in the back of the room carrying a sign with the chant spelled out:
“Jews are here to stay; Occupation is a PLAGUE.”