Washington (AP) – President Donald Trump says he did not know that the word “shelock” is considered to be destroyed when he used it to describe the dishonest moneyland in a speech.
Trump told reporters on Friday after returning from an event in Iowa that he had “never heard of it” and “never heard”. The word was considered an aggressive stereotype about Jews.
In Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice” refers to the villain Jewish Moneylender, who demands a pound meat from a debtor.
The Anti-Development League, which works to combat antisemitism, stated in a statement that the word “provokes a centuries-old antisemitic trops about Jews and Greed that is extremely aggressive and dangerous. The word of President Trump is very upset and irresponsible.”
Democrats Joe Biden, while Vice President, Said in 2014 A day later, he created a “bad option” of words a day after using the word in a comment to a legal aid group.
Trump’s administration has given priority to antismitism. His administration said This is screening for antisemtic activity While providing immigration benefits and its Battle with Harvard University The White House focuses on the allegations that the school has tolerated antisementism.
But Republican has also been president History of playing on stereotypes about Jewish people.
He told the Republican Jewish coalition in 2015 that “you want to control your politicians” and suggested that the audience used money to control control.
Trump criticized his 2024 presidential campaign before he stopped his 2024 presidential campaign. Eating with a Holocost-Danning White Nationalist at your Florida Club.
Last year, Trump repeatedly commented on the Jewish Americans, who identify the Democratic leaders as Democrats due to the criticism of the Israeli Prime Minister. Benjamin NetanyahuCritics stated that it ended an antisemitic trop about divided loyalty to Jews and is only a right way to be Jewish.
In his speech at Iowa Thursday night, Trump used the term while talking about his signature law which was passed by the Congress earlier in the day.
He said, “No death, no property tax, no one is going to banks and in some cases, borrowing from a fine banker and in some cases from Shilox and bad people,” he said.
When a reporter later asked about the antisemtic association of the word and his intentions, Trump said; “No, I have never heard of it in this way. For me, there is someone who is a penny lender at high rates. I have never heard of it. You see it differently from me. I have never heard of it.”
The Anti-Demption League stated that the use of Trump’s word “underlines that lies and conspiracies about Jews are deeply surrounded in our country. The words of our leaders and we expect more from the President of the United States.”
Michelle L. Price, Associated Press
