On Rosh Hashanah call, Trump tells American Jews 'We love your country' and asks for their vote

[Nevilledog]

Link to tweet

https://www.jta.org/2020/09/16/politics/on-rosh-hashanah-call-trump-tells-american-jews-we-love-your-country-and-asks-for-their-vote

WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Donald Trump spent much of his 20-minute call with American Jewish leaders making the case for more American Jews to vote for him. He closed by repeating a line that has raised their eyebrows before.

“We really appreciate you,” Trump said as he signed off the call, an annual pre-Rosh Hashanah presidential tradition. “We love your country also.”

Earlier, introducing his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, who brokered the historic deals with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain that were signed at the White House Tuesday, Trump called him “an unbelievable leader for Israel.”

The comments echoed others he has made in the past that suggest that American Jews think of themselves as Israelis, including at a White House Hanukkah party two years ago.

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Ummmm......their country? They're Americans, dickhead.

[Johnny2X2X]

1. Oy Vey

My god, his Neo Nazism can never be hidden. American Jews have a country, it's called the Unites States.

[underpants]

6. That's what I was going to say

[Sogo]

2. Clueless.

[regnaD kciN]

3. He obviously doesn't love "their country"...

...and doesn’t think much of Israel, either, except in what way he can use it as a political pawn.

[AleksS]

4. What makes that especially pernicious

is that the idea that Jewish people are loyal to Israel first is a long held anti-Semitic trope. It's been used against Jewish people by racists and nazis like Trump for years.

[PCIntern]

5. I am personally insulted and afraid.

Yellow stars to be issued for Yom Kippur

Seriously, this is real Elders of Zion shit.

[kskiska]

7. I recall seeing a foreign film

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about an elderly Jewish woman from Russia who, late in life, decided to move to Israel. Once there, she went about looking for old friends from Russia and finally located a few, but they were in homes for the elderly or nursing homes. She realized that Israel wasn't filled with Jews, but Israelis, who consisted of numerous other ethnic factions.

[C_U_L8R]

8. Didn't love em enough to wear a mask.

Ask Herman Cain about your 'love'.

[Behind the Aegis]

9. He is a traitor, IMO, to my country.

He has no love for my country, only himself. He doesn't "love" Israel either.

[Alacritous Crier]

10. Disgusting racist fuck!

[agingdem]

11. Ok..here goes..Trump you ignorant ass-wipe

we didn't just arrive...we're Americans..we care about Israel but our loyalty is to the United States first and always..this is your pandemic but we share in the hell you have unleashed..we share in the horror and the humiliation that is you..we get that you're a racist, a bigot..we get that you've brought hate out of the shadows and into the White House..we get that your adoring cult doesn't give a damn if you strip them of their Social Security and Medicare...they love you because you hate who they hate...you're Hitler-lite..mazel tov!...but here's the thing...we Jews, along with our Black, Hispanic, Asian, Muslim, Native American brothers and sisters want you gone..oh, yes, we know Jared is Jewish...well, we don't want him..he's all yours...Happy Rosh Hashanah...may the year 5781 see you in handcuffs...