Trump has been criticizing Jewish Democratic voters for years, and he has called Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer “like a Palestinian” many times.
Washington, D.C. In comments that were supposed to be about fighting racism, former President Donald Trump asked why he doesn’t have a lot of support from Jewish voters and said that they would have “a lot to do” with him losing in November if they don’t turn out in large numbers to vote for him.
During a campaign event called “Fighting Antisemitism in America,” Trump said, “I’m not going to call this a prediction, but, in my opinion, the Jewish people would have a lot to do with a loss if I’m at 40%.” He claimed that an unnamed poll showed that two-fifths of Jewish voters supported him.
Trump spent a lot of his speech telling the crowd what his administration had done for Israelis, such as recognizing the Golan Heights as Israeli territory, pulling the U.S. out of the nuclear deal with Iran, and moving the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
He was upset that, despite those achievements, which he said were for the benefit of the Jewish people, he had not seen more support from Jewish voters. Trump then said that Jewish voters have not “treated right” him and that their support “doesn’t translate” in the U.S., even though he is the “most popular person in Israel.”
“This must not happen.” Trump said, “Forty percent is not acceptable because we have an election to win.” He blamed the low support on Jewish voters and what he called “the Democrat hold or curse.”
During his speech, he also directly asked Jewish voters to vote for him and criticized the college protest movement for the way it was handling its war with Hamas.
“The first week I’m back in the Oval Office, my administration will tell every college president that they will lose their accreditation and federal tax credit support if they don’t stop offensive speech against Jews,” he said.
When asked for more information about what the former president said, the Trump campaign did not reply right away.
At a different event in the capital on Thursday evening, he told Jewish people the same thing about how important it was for them to vote.
At the second event, the Israeli-American Council National Summit, Trump said, “If I don’t win this electionâand the Jewish people would really have a lot to do with that if that happensâIsrael will cease to exist within two years.â At 40%, that means 60% of people are voting for the enemy.
As Trump tries to win over Jewish votes before the general election in November, he has continued to attack well-known Jewish leaders in public, such as Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro.
As he did Thursday night, Trump has called Schumer “like a Palestinian.” He also called Shapiro a “highly overrated Jewish governor” in a post on his social media site, Truth Social, last month.
Now that Trump is not in office but is busy campaigning, he has reached out to and praised Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a lot in order to appeal to Jewish voters. In late July, he even hosted Netanyahu at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.
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Trump’s words on Thursday show that he has been angry for a long time that Jewish voters haven’t supported him (the Pew Research Center says that Jewish voters tend to vote Democratic). If a Jewish person votes Democratic, he said, they “either have no idea what they’re doing or are very disloyal.” And two weeks before the 2022 midterms, he wrote on social media, “U.S. Jews need to get their act together and appreciate what they have in Israel â Before it is too late!”
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