Trump assaults Schumer as ‘not Jewish anymore’ and says he’s ‘Palestinian’ now | EUROtoday

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President Donald Trump on Wednesday launched right into a weird assault on Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer — the highest-ranking Jewish particular person within the American authorities — by inexplicably claiming that the New York Democrat was now not Jewish throughout a marathon media availability alongside Irish Taoiseach Micheal Martin.

Trump was talking to reporters within the Oval Office about his plans for tax cuts when he all of the sudden pivoted to recounting how, in his view, Democrats hadn’t stood and applauded sufficiently at totally different elements of the speech he delivered to a joint session of Congress final week.

“We are planning to lower taxes … if the Democrats behave, but the Democrats have no clue — you saw that the other night during the speech,” he mentioned. “That evening was a disaster for the Democrats, in my opinion.”

Trump accused Democrats of not reacting approvingly sufficient of a younger most cancers survivor who was made an honorary Secret Service particular agent throughout his speech and known as the get together “sick.”

“They don’t know what’s happening in the real world, the Democrats have to get their act together, and if they don’t vote, then what you’re going to do is you’re going to have taxes that are going to go through the roof. You’re going to have a very bad time. You’re going to have some very bad things happen, and people are going to blame the Democrats,” he mentioned.

But the president, for no obvious cause, then pivoted to attacking the background of Schumer, a fellow New Yorker and a longtime foil throughout his decade-long political profession.

“And Schumer is a Palestinian, as far as I’m concerned. You know, he’s become a Palestinian. He used to be Jewish. He’s not Jewish anymore. He’s a Palestinian,” he mentioned earlier than complaining a couple of query from a NBC correspondent and persevering with together with his meandering remarks.

Schumer, a 74-year-old veteran of the higher chamber who has served because the Democratic ground chief since 2017, just isn’t Palestinian. He was born in Brooklyn and has lived in New York for his complete life.

Yet the president has repeatedly attacked the Senate chief’s background and accused him of being “Palestinian” as if to redefine that ethnicity as an insult.

At an August 2024 marketing campaign rally, he mentioned Schumer was “a proud member of Hamas,” the anti-Israel terrorist group, after the New Yorker declined to shake the hand of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when the controversial Israeli chief addressed Congress throughout a joint session final summer season.

Speaking in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Trump informed supporters: “Chuck Schumer refused to shake the Israeli prime minister’s hand … Chuck Schumer has become a Palestinian. Can you believe it? He’s become a proud member of Hamas.”

He repeated the false declare about Schumer’s background in a Truth Social submit final month when he mentioned that Palestinians — who he known as “people like Chuck Schumer” — would “actually have a chance to be happy, safe, and free” underneath his plan for the United States to take management of the Gaza Strip and ethnically cleanse the present inhabitants so the territory may very well be redeveloped.