President Donald Trump in the Oval Office (screengrab)
President Donald Trump has been pushing a right-wing fantasy known as "Jexodus" -- that American Jews are abandoning the Democratic Party.
The effort likely got harder on Saturday after the President made multiple controversial remarks while visiting Las Vegas.
It started with a bonkers speech before the Jewish Republican Coalition, followed by a twitter meltdown.
Here is some of the criticism Trump received:
This is dangerous, means Jews aren’t really American. Hitler and Mussolini used same reasoning. Recall that Trump’s… https://t.co/TKjSy5tNX4— Ruth Ben-Ghiat (@Ruth Ben-Ghiat) 1554585405.0
I'm willing to bet this won't get even a tenth of the mass media attention that @IlhanMN's comments got. https://t.co/S8B2kKO8sO— Pranesh Prakash (@Pranesh Prakash) 1554580393.0
This is essentially the same sort of dual loyalty anti-semitism Ilhan Omar’s critics claimed she used (she didn’t)… https://t.co/cTUk6nLeYV— Rafi Schwartz (@Rafi Schwartz) 1554581029.0
Good afternoon. Trump, unlike Ilhan, is *actually* accusing Jews of dual loyalty, and he won't face one iota of the… https://t.co/gNRhbMtQHg— Jonathan "Boo and Vote" Cohn (@Jonathan "Boo and Vote" Cohn) 1554581751.0
WTF- Trump tells Jewish Republicans today that "you prime minister" is Netanyahu!! Imagine if a Democrat said that… https://t.co/Rq6GduICeW— (((DeanObeidallah))) (@(((DeanObeidallah)))) 1554586738.0
Not the first time Trump has done this. Blatantly anti-Semitic. Won't get even an ounce of the coverage on "anti-Se… https://t.co/KCHnGYQObT— Mehdi Hasan (@Mehdi Hasan) 1554580012.0
This is, by the way, the same group to which Trump once said, “You’re not going go support me because I don’t want… https://t.co/lXPYiHKtJQ— Julia Ioffe (@Julia Ioffe) 1554581871.0
American Jews are not Israelis. The group at the RJC even chanted “U-S-A” to drown out a protester. https://t.co/H2b0If9pJO— Jonathan Allen (@Jonathan Allen) 1554585107.0
Trump’s rant plagiarized from NZ Terrorist’s manifesto: -Immigrants=invade, infest, breed -Asylum seekers=animals… https://t.co/4ezYafbPcU— Rula Jebreal (@Rula Jebreal) 1554585851.0
Shame on everyone at the Republican Jewish Coalition event who applauded and cheered Trump's rhetoric here. White n… https://t.co/Sbmhv4hrfR— Mehdi Hasan (@Mehdi Hasan) 1554580539.0
Dehumanization of Jews was a tactic the 3rd Reich used in their propaganda, that referred to Jews as "Animals". Tru… https://t.co/vKozd1JQ9n— Kim Possible (@Kim Possible) 1554586834.0
Trump tells American Jews that Netanyahu is ‘your prime minister’ in bonkers Vegas speech https://t.co/7eN1pNsCg0— Raw Story (@Raw Story) 1554581033.0
Trump addresses American Jews then adopts ‘never forget’ to describe his Mueller investigation ordeal https://t.co/JE4hZrzSR1— Raw Story (@Raw Story) 1554583636.0
