Trump is using antisemitic terms to describe the BBB

https://www.wcvb.com/article/t...ch-tax-bill/65303380

President Donald Trump said early Friday that he wasn’t aware that some people view the word “shylock” as antisemitic after using the term during a rally to decry amoral moneylenders.

“I’ve never heard it that way. To me, shylock is somebody that’s a money lender at high rates,” Trump told reporters after getting off Air Force One. “I’ve never heard it that way, you view it differently than me. I’ve never heard that.”
Trump was arriving back in Washington after an event in Iowa marking the kickoff to nationwide celebrations marking the country’s 250th anniversary next year.
“Think of that: no death tax, no estate tax, no going to the banks and borrowings from, in some cases, a fine banker. And in some cases, shylocks and bad people,” he said during his event in Des Moines. “They took away a lot of, a lot of family. They destroyed a lot of families, but we did the opposite.”

The name “Shylock” derives from the name of the antagonist in William Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice.” Shylock, a Jew, was a ruthless moneylender in the play, and he’s remembered for demanding a “pound of flesh” from the merchant Antonio if he failed to repay a loan.

The Anti-Defamation League condemned Trump’s use of the word Friday morning.

“The term ‘Shylock’ evokes a centuries-old antisemitic trope about Jews and greed that is extremely offensive and dangerous. President Trump’s use of the term is very troubling and irresponsible,” the organization wrote in a statement on X. “It underscores how lies and conspiracies about Jews remain deeply entrenched in our country. Words from our leaders matter and we expect more from the President of the United States.”

Then-Vice President Joe Biden apologized for using the word in 2014 after the ADL’s national director at the time issued a mild rebuke of his use of the word, saying Biden “should have been more careful.”

Biden made the reference in a speech while recalling anecdotes from his son’s experience serving in Iraq and meeting members of the military who were in need of legal help because of problems back at home.

“I mean these shylocks who took advantage of, um, these women and men while overseas,” he said.
In his speech, he used the word when touting aspects of the major domestic policy bill that had been approved by Congress a few hours earlier.

I have never thought of or heard of it being Jewish .I have always thought it was a word describing .Mafia loan sharks

Someone's always going to be 'offended' by the slightest thing and pull out their victim card.

The left is desperate to splatter our president with mud. Desperate. Anything the msm says should automatically and immediately be considered suspect until proven otherwise.

Shakespeare’s character is a jewish money lender. I’ve always heard it used interchangeably between loan shark (and) or as a slur for any Jewish banker

I’m not Jewish but I’ve been in banking for 30+ years and I’ve been called a bankster, Shylock, and crooked money changer and I should have my tables flipped and worse. Always by an angry client when declining or trying to collect on a bad loan when I’m trying to stay legal for the bank and professional and not lose my job for delivering an ass beating in the middle of an office.

Once again, the structure of the quote taken in its entirety blows the hysteria away.

Trump is talking about some bankers that are not doing the right thing. "shylocks and bad people". Those are consistent, as earlier he says " in some cases, a fine banker".

In context he used shylock to describe the wrong kind of banker.

Is it the same category as other words that are considered racially defamatory no matter the context? Idk.

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The Anti-Defamation League condemned Trump’s use of the word Friday morning.

These fuckers . Have they condemned widespread support of Hamas from Democrats? Or the widespread on campus violence against Jewish students? Or the widespread riots, protests against Israel in support of Hamas?

Of all the things the left accuses Trump of, antisemitism is the most ridiculous, because these leftists/Democrats have demonstrated for years, decades, they are the party of antisemitism.

..yet Comey claimed he didn't know what "86" meant and got a pass. Fucking left