Trump supposedly cares about religion and the fate of different religions, people, and countries. He is not fooling anyone. Trump cares about himself and he’s upset that so few American Jews voted for him. It is as simple as that.

Trump was quoted today in an interview with David Ravid and the ramifications – the anti-Semitism, is reverberating throughout the nation.

“There’s people in this country that are Jewish no longer love Israel. I’ll tell you the evangelical Christians love Israel more than the Jews in this country.”

New quotes from Trump to @BarakRavid: Most US Jews don't love Israel. Exclusive for Unholy podcast
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— Yonit Levi (@LeviYonit) December 17, 2021

Trump went deeper into his stereotypes:

“It used to be that Israel had absolute power over Congress, and today I think it’s the exact opposite.“

You mean the U.S. Congress now has power over America’s relationship with a foreign country? Yes, that would be the appropriate relationship. Judaism as a religion and the religion does not equate to Israel as a country. To say otherwise is condescending as if Jewish leadership in Israel (and non-Jewish leadership) is unable to govern itself like a modern nation.

And I think Obama and Biden did that. And yet in the election, they still get a lot of votes from Jewish people, which tells you that the Jewish people, and I’ve said this for a long time, the Jewish people in the United States, either don’t like Israel or don’t care about Israel.”

Because they didn’t vote for Trump, who did care about Israel? (He did not, he gave it away in the first sentence, saying American fundamentalist Christians care more about Israel than American Jews, because – of course – Trump perceives all Christians as voting for him.

But Trump wasn’t done with his anti-Semitism:

“I mean you look at the New York Times, the New York Times hates Israel. Hates them. And they’re Jewish people that run the New York Times, I mean the Sulzberger family.”

That did it:

The head of the ADL, Jonathan Greenblatt, responded, “Once again, former President Trump has linked his lack of strong support among most US Jews to their feelings about Israel and used classic #antisemitic stereotypes about Israeli and Jewish control of Congress and the press to bolster his argument.”

Let me be clear: insinuating that Israel or the Jews control Congress or the media is antisemitic, plain and simple. Unfortunately, this is not the first time he has made these offensive remarks.

— Jonathan Greenblatt (@JGreenblattADL) December 17, 2021

The most anti-semitic president in history, and it isn't close https://t.co/srIvYjAPw4

— Jonathan Chait (@jonathanchait) December 17, 2021

And according to Mediaite:

The Washington Post reported on Tuesday that Trump’s vulgar remark directed at Netanyahu has ruffled feathers among his evangelical supporters.

Mike Evans, one of Trump’s early evangelical backers, was “horrified” by the remark and shared with the Post a letter he wrote Trump urging him to “understand that Benjamin Netanyahu has much greater support among evangelicals in America than you.”

There is no doubt that Trump is an anti-Semite. But the overriding theme here is that, in Trump’s mind, Jews and all historically marginalized groups, think alike, as if a herd, and not individual “people” just like everyone else. Classic bigotry and this time it came out in anti-Semitism.

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