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I can’t wait to see what no consequences he’ll face for this.
He’ll deliver an EO tomorrow declaring ‘Shylock’ to be a superlative to ‘Rabbi’.
deliver an EO
Is that a euphemism for shitting an EO?
I doubt that Trump has ever read Shakespeare.
He has, however, read a collection of Hitler’s speeches:
Last April, perhaps in a surge of Czech nationalism, Ivana Trump told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler’s collected speeches, My New Order, which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed. Kennedy now guards a copy of My New Order in a closet at his office, as if it were a grenade. Hitler’s speeches, from his earliest days up through the Phony War of 1939, reveal his extraordinary ability as a master propagandist.
“Did your cousin John give you the Hitler speeches?” I asked Trump.
Trump hesitated. “Who told you that?”
“I don’t remember,” I said.
“Actually, it was my friend Marty Davis from Paramount who gave me a copy of Mein Kampf, and he’s a Jew.” (“I did give him a book about Hitler,” Marty Davis said. “But it was My New Order, Hitler’s speeches, not Mein Kampf. I thought he would find it interesting. I am his friend, but I’m not Jewish.”)
Later, Trump returned to this subject. “If I had these speeches, and I am not saying that I do, I would never read them.”
I think I first heard this from an article by Tony Schwartz who wrote The Art of the Deal. He mentioned seeing the speeches book by Trump’s bed during one of their brief meetings about Trump’s book, which Trump took no part in.
I’m more surprised that he reads. I thought he was basically illiterate lol.
The most likely theory is that he desperately needs reading glasses, but is too proud to wear them. So he simply can’t read anything in public, because he needs the glasses that he keeps in his room.
He does read the teleprompter occasionally, but the reading glasses theory makes sense.
He often squints reading the prompter, and he has to concentrate so his manner of speech moderates significantly. Then you see him flip the switch to freewheeling bullshit.
I think he’s one of those readers who cannot take in the content of text while focusing on reading. You’ll notice he only starts freewheeling on the last word or two of a sentence or paragraph. That’s all he’s heard.
I doubt that Trump has ever read
Shakespeare.I doubt that Trump has ever read anything.
Having said that, he could have watched this excellent Merchant of Venice movie starrting Al Pacino, so he would know who Shylock is.
Busting out the slur deep cuts
Seriously. Dude’s got mush brain and was steeped in racism starting in the 50s. I’m surprised he hasn’t called anyone a wop or mick yet
Apparently ‘Shylock’ and ‘shyster’ are etymologically unrelated. Shylock is a Jewish moneylender from Shakespeare, and not a particularly pleasant fellow. Shyster is from the Germanic word for shit, and also used to describe a disreputable person of any race or religion.
(Edit) Full quote from rally:
Think of that: no death tax, no estate tax, no going to the banks and borrowing from, in some cases, a fine banker. And in some cases, Shylocks and bad people.
I hate to give the guy a pass, but to be fair, I wasn’t aware that was a slur (or even a word). If anything, it sounds more like a homophobic term.
Edit: yeah, actually that’s a hard one to right a pass on.
If you know the word, then you know it’s a slur. His history of antisemitic statements guarantees he knew what it meant.
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In the context of bankers and borrowing, your read is that “shylock” here refers to gay people?
Edited comment weird. My original comment just had the quote from the article where Trump said he didn’t know that was a slur. I replaced that quote with the full original Trump quote, with the edit (but left the original middle piece from my original comment)
I hate Trump as much as the next guy, but I don’t think he’s being antisemitic here. He’s just the usual Trump: crass and uneducated.
Kind of like when he famously said "The only kind of people I want counting my money are little short guys who wear yarmulkes every day” in the 90’s: he wasn’t being an antisemite, just being a sleazebag.
Well, he’s still a sleazebag. You don’t make a racehorse out of a donkey.
That’s definitely antisemitic. There’s absolutely no ambiguity here.
“If I frame my blatant racism as supposedly a compliment it can’t be racism right?”
Sure it’s slightly better than openly hating and denigrating a race, but it’s still racist. They don’t understand this.
Fucking what has this guy ever done to deserve the benefit of the doubt? Seriously?
He’s been spewing antisemitism like this since at least 2015. (I didn’t pay much attention to him before then)
It’s not just ignorance when it’s pointed out repeatedly over the years and you keep doing it.
ExtremeDullard is wrong. End of transmission.
Fucking false dummy
