President Trump referred to some lenders as “shelox and bad people” during the speech on Thursday evening, using a word Anti-Defamation League called A “centuries -old antisemtic trop.”
The comment was made during an event in Iowa, as Mr. Trump celebrated the passage of a large beautiful bill act. When the changes of law in property tax were discussed, he said, “Think so. No death, no property tax. No one is going to banks and in some cases a fine banker, and in some cases Shiloks and Bad people.”
The word “Shelock” in William Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice” reference to the name of a Jewish character, depicted as a greedy moneylender. Is illustrated In encompassing manner saw In the form of the announcement of antisemtic stereotypes.
When asked about the antisemtic meanings of the word, Mr. Trump told reporters after the speech, “I have never heard of it.”
The President said, “The meaning of the shelocker is one that is a moneylender at high rates. You see it differently. I have never heard of it,” the President said.
Anti-Defection League Said on Friday on X“The use of the word President Trump’s word is very upset and irresponsible,” the term “the word” provokes a centuries-old antisementary trop about the Jews and greed that is extremely aggressive and dangerous. “
Rape. Dan Goldman, a New York Democrat who is a Jew, also criticized Mr. Trump’s comments A post on X,
Goldman wrote, “Whoever truly opposes antithesmitism, is wherever it is – on both extremes – as I do,” Goldman wrote.
In 2014, the then Vice President Joe Biden also criticized Railings against Referring to the members of the military service, “Shilox, who took advantage of these women and men abroad, took advantage of these women and men.” After pushback from ADL, Biden called it a “bad option of words”, and group Said later “No one was ill here.”
