For those unaware of the origin, It's a name of a Jewish moneylender character in The Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare.

Trump is well versed in the ancient arts of antisemitism.

I have noticed it's kind of common for older people to say this and not know the origins or antisemitic connotations. If someone who was Trump's age but a little bit smarter said this, I would think maybe it was intentional but since he's such an idiot there's a decent chance he really didn't know ot was offensive. As much as I hate Trump and all he stands for, I can believe this one was truly accidental.

But do you claim to be as smart as Trump claims to be ? Because it seems that smartest, biggest most beautiful brained leaders these days do not know Shakespearean references.

Because it's not about the Jews. It was never about the Jews. It was always about using a scapegoat that's enough of a minority to be bullied, but not enough of a minority that they practically don't exist.

Because nationalist groups when they aren't pitted against each other have a lot in common. It's why Trump likes Bibi, Xi and Putin.

Wealthy German Zionists, negotiated Haavara with Hitler. Breaking solidarity and boycotts against his regime to emigrate to Palestine. Ostensibly to save German Jews. Though ultimately only those that were Zionist and wealthy got to take much advantage of it.

Post war Zionists manipulated international sympathies to make official claims to Palestine and seize control from the people who had actually lived there generations, displacing them. Much as Hitler had done to them. Initially there were many other places discussed to relocate many Jews after the war. It wasn't always just Palestine. But the nationalists demanded Palestine.

Nationalist are scum and always have been.

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Because ethnonationalism is a coherent ideology.

What was it? Something about being the "good guy" so long, you become the "bad guy"

Nazis were to found an Israel county on Madagascar.

He has, however, read a collection of Hitler's speeches:

Last April, perhaps in a surge of Czech nationalism, Ivana Trump told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler's collected speeches, My New Order, which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed. Kennedy now guards a copy of My New Order in a closet at his office, as if it were a grenade. Hitler's speeches, from his earliest days up through the Phony War of 1939, reveal his extraordinary ability as a master propagandist.

"Did your cousin John give you the Hitler speeches?" I asked Trump.

Trump hesitated. "Who told you that?"

"I don't remember," I said.

"Actually, it was my friend Marty Davis from Paramount who gave me a copy of Mein Kampf, and he's a Jew." ("I did give him a book about Hitler," Marty Davis said. "But it was My New Order, Hitler's speeches, not Mein Kampf. I thought he would find it interesting. I am his friend, but I'm not Jewish.")

Later, Trump returned to this subject. "If I had these speeches, and I am not saying that I do, I would never read them."

I doubt that Trump has ever read anything.

Having said that, he could have watched this excellent Merchant of Venice movie starrting Al Pacino, so he would know who Shylock is.

I doubt that Trump has ever read Shakespeare.

Fixed: I doubt that Trump has ever read Shakespeare.

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Is that a euphemism for shitting an EO?

Seriously. Dude's got mush brain and was steeped in racism starting in the 50s. I'm surprised he hasn't called anyone a wop or mick yet

If you know the word, then you know it's a slur. His history of antisemitic statements guarantees he knew what it meant.

In the context of bankers and borrowing, your read is that "shylock" here refers to gay people?