Former President Donald Trump in an interview on Tuesday claimed Vice President Kamala Harris, who is married to a Jewish man, “doesn’t like Jewish people” and seemed to agree with a radio host who called second gentleman Doug Emhoff “a crappy Jew.”
Trump, in an interview on WABC radio on Tuesday, claimed Harris looked uncomfortable while meeting last week with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“You can see the disdain,” he said, adding, “No. 1, she doesn’t like Israel. No. 2, she doesn’t like Jewish people. You know it, I know it and everybody knows it and nobody wants to say it.”
In the interview, the Republican former president repeated comments he has made before lashing out at Jewish voters who back Democrats, saying anyone who does “should have their head examined” and “if you’re Jewish, if you vote for a Democrat, you’re a fool, an absolute fool. They have let Jewish people down since Obama at a level that nobody could believe.”
As Trump continued on, he again said of Harris, “She dislikes Jewish people and Israel even more than Biden did.”
The interview host, Sid Rosenberg, then mentioned Harris’ husband, second gentleman Doug Emhoff and said, “He’s Jewish like Bernie Sanders is Jewish. Are you kidding me?”
“Yeah,” Trump said.
“He’s a crappy Jew,” Rosenberg said, continuing.
“Yeah,” Trump said again.
Rosenberg went on, saying of Emhoff, “He’s a horrible Jew.”
They then moved on to criticizing Harris on other issues.
“America is better than the fear, hate, and despicable insults of Donald Trump,” said James Singer, a spokesperson for the Harris campaign. “Vice President Harris believes Americans want a president who unites our country instead of divides it, uses the power of the presidency to help families instead of hurt them, and has a vision for our future, instead of taking us backwards.”
Trump made a similar claim about Harris disliking Jewish people on Friday while speaking to a Christian group at a Turning Point USA gathering in Florida. He has also ignited blowback in the past for making similar remarks about Jewish people, like when he said in March that Jews who vote for Democrats “hate Israel” and hate “their religion.”
Emhoff, the first Jewish person to serve as the spouse of a nationally elected U.S. leader, has been one of the most visible members of the Biden administration speaking about combating antisemitism. He hung mezuzahs on the doorposts of the vice president’s residence and led Passover celebrations at the White House.
Emhoff’s office declined to comment Tuesday.
Trump’s campaign has also criticized Emhoff’s adult daughter Ella for posting on her social media account a fundraising link for the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees. Israel has sought to ban the group and suggests it supports terrorists. European leaders have said that is a baseless accusation.
Rosenberg, who is Jewish, is a longtime conservative New York City radio personality who hosts “Sid and Friends in the Morning,” on 77 WABC. Guests on his show have included Trump-world figures like Rudy Giuliani and Donald Trump Jr.
Rosenberg came to prominence as a sidekick and sports anchor on Don Imus’ long-running morning radio show. He drew backlash in 2001 for making racist comments calling tennis star Venus Williams an “animal” and saying that she and her sister Serena should pose for National Geographic magazine. He was fired from Imus’ show over those remarks but re-appeared on the show later and was involved in the incident that got Imus fired in 2007, in which Imus made a racist and misogynist remark about the mostly black Rutgers University women’s basketball team.
(AP)
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Is there any other nation that has self haters this bad?
Insulting non-Orthodox Jews will not make them more likely to vote Republican, and 2024 was shaping up as the year of Jews switching (back, for the first time in a century) to the Republicans. With a big movement in the Democratic party calling for genocide of Jews and carrying out anti-Semitic attacks in the United States, it was dumb of Trump to throw away enough votes that it could turn New York, and several other blue state, purple.
Coffee addict, unfortunately it seems to be unique to only ONE
Big mistake to go on with that air head Rosenberg! Attack their policy’s not their Jewishness or lack of it.
When did kamala have dinner with nazis and white supremacists? When did she call them fine people?
I wonder if Sid Rosenberg is actually Jewish.
Disgusting behavior.
@akuperma
Maybe you totally missed the point, but it is quite clear what he meant.
And there is nothing really wrong with what he said.
Those voters that would swap over to the republicans/trump over the terrible demon-rats and their terrible anti-Semitism, are only stronger inclined to do so after this….
Coffee addict:
A Jewish neshama is capable of awesome heights, greater than angles. Therefore, it is also capable of descending to depths of similar caliber. So, no, there is nothing in the world comparable to a Jew who despises Judaism. Like the Zionists, for example.
he’s right!!! Jews who are not frum but support israel (the right wing israel obviously) have a good chance of doing teshuva one day. we don’t need to pander to the self haters. MAGA!
Is he wrong? I don’t think so….
The real “crappy” jews are those that contort themselves to justify supporting a morally challenged candidate who would throw his own “Jewish” grandchildren under the bus (and back it up a few times) to meet his warped sense of self-gratification. He might actually win if he stayed on message and highlighted policy differences with Harris but instead, he reverts to his lifelong need to demean, disparage and insult.
Dorah,
The real “crappy” jews are those who intermarry and contort themselves to justify supporting a morally challenged spouse who would throw her own shigtza step-children under the bus (and back it up a few times) to meet her warped sense of self-gratification. She might actually win if she stayed on message and highlighted policy differences with Brandon but instead, she reverts to her lifelong prostituting, pandering and prattling.