Every once in a while, you see someone tell on themselves in an embarrassing way. If you’re paying attention, you see Donald Trump do it constantly.

The latest asinine comment he made publicly came during a radio interview with Ari Hoffman. When the topic of the Abraham Accords came up, Trump lamented that more American Jews didn’t vote for him:

If you look at the vote, it’s incredible that I didn’t get the kind of a vote from Jewish people that you would think I would get. Jewish people in this country, many of them, do not like Israel.

He also appeared to be confirming a relatively anti-Semitic trope about the financial influence of Israel over American politics.

The relationship between the US and Israel is the subject of a lot of scrutiny, but both parties have strong supporters of the Middle Eastern state. It is the only democracy in the region, and ties that ostensibly help mitigate conflicts there have proved useful.

But critics have long said that Israel held undue sway over the American body politic, and Trump did nothing to help dispel that axiom:

The biggest change I’ve seen in Congress is Israel literally owned Congress, you understand that, ten years ago, 15 years ago. And it was so powerful. It was so powerful. And today it’s almost the opposite. You have between AOC and Omar and these people that hate Israel, they hate it with a passion, they’re controlling Congress, and Israel is not a force in Congress anymore. I mean, it’s just amazing. I’ve never seen such a change.

Of course, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar are hardly the leaders of the Democrats in Congress. Their proposals as progressives are routinely shot down by the more moderate or centrist wing of the Party. To claim that they’ve had any effect on how influential Israel is in the House and Senate is to vastly overstate the influence of the Congresswomen themselves.

“They had such power, Israel had such power, and rightfully, over Congress, and now it doesn’t,” Trump said. We’re not sure what “rightfully” is supposed to mean in this context. Especially when it’s being said by a man whose favorite phrase is “America First.”

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