Shoot me now: Trump thinks he’s king of the Jews!

August 21, 2019 • 11:30 am

Now he’s the King of the Jews! Ceiling Cat help us!

But the one good thing, I think, is that stuff like this can’t possibly help him. Yes, he’s trying to divide the Democratic party by painting it as the Squad Party, but in the end I think it will just make him look insane. Combine that with a possibly plummeting economy and bye-bye White House!

Well he may be my President, in the formal sense, but he’s not my fricking KING!

h/t: j.j.

103 thoughts on “Shoot me now: Trump thinks he’s king of the Jews!”

  1. As my my mother would have said, ‘Ye gods & little fishes!”

    You have my deepest sympathy. Maybe we can sell Israel to America!

  2. My sympathies – we have a major national embarrassment currently squatting at no 10 Downing Street, but:
    a) he probably won’t be there long
    b) not even he really compares to your increasingly unhinged narcissist.

  3. Trying to remember. Last time someone said they were king of the Jews, that didn’t work out so well? Trump is certainly king of the superlative. What an annoying style!

    2. Lemme know when Pontius Pilate comes out on the North Portico and makes a show of washing his hands.

  5. How about the Red Heifer? Did I miss the Red Heifer? Damn! I wanted to see the R. H.

      1. In his mind, and I’d bet in the mind of Wayne Allyn Root as well, they’re one and the same.

        One simply can’t evaluate such deeply irrational assertions in terms of actual truth value. This is in the realm of individual and collective delusion. It plays right into old stereotypes and explains why the stereotype of “divided loyalty” is so potent.

  8. When you read anything by Wayne Allyn Root about Trump you realize we’re dealing with a cult.

    (It’s fascinating stuff, to see a cult emerge like this in the world of social media. We live in interesting times.)

  9. And just yesterday he was saying the jews who would vote for a Democrat were either stupid or disloyal. Sure glad he got over that. Does he even know what his son in law is?

    1. Hunh? That’s Jared you’re talking about, no? So,if I interpret your comment correctly, either he’s a Democrat or a Jew? I really doubt that he’d have been able to retain being a functioning Democrat in the Trump family (he’d be drugged into insensibility, or dropped into an oubliette, or something). But his religious affiliations haven’t attracted any mention over here that I’ve noticed (and nor should anyone’s religious disease be a public matter).
      Well bowdlerise me with a deep-fried pizza! That’s almost interesting! Not as interesting as “Following his father’s conviction for fraud in 2005 and subsequent incarceration” though – talk about “Like father like father-in-law”!

      1. Hell, even Trump was a Democrat a few years ago. The whole family can be whatever you want them to be if you have enough money, Comrade.

  11. With him, he’s always the best at everything “in the history of the world”. He might be right in one category: the greatest narcissist in the history of the world. He’s taking it to a whole new level.

    1. I think Caligula and Idi Amin might dispute that. But, give the Donald time…

      cr

    2. You know perfectly well what Jerry meant; the details of whether Trump explicitly said it or not are irrelevant. Yours is a question that’s not being asked in good faith.

    3. In his tweet, Trump quotes with approval Wayne Allyn Root’s statement that “the Jewish people in Israel love [Trump] like he’s the King of Israel.”

      I think that makes him fair game for Jerry’s spoof headline.

    4. Oh, give me a break; it’s just the tone of Trump combined with the statement by Root that he’s like the “king of Israel”.

      And no, your question is not being asked in good faith. My title was partly tongue in cheek.

      1. I believe it was a technology problem rather than a question not being asked in good faith.

        If you have certain ad blockers or privacy settings enabled in your browser, it will only show the plain text of the first and third tweet in that series.

        Here’s a screenshot: https://imgur.com/alSm0um

  13. Trump is bad for Israel – that’s for sure.
    BUT: unfortunately there is something in his tweets that sounds strangely familiar to me…
    The problem is that Trump is indeed very popular in Israel, he is considered by many to be a big friend and protector of Israel who will defend it against the hostile antisemitic world. This adoration of Trump is, in part, a result of the fixation of many Israelis on the (real) anti-Israeli bias in some of the international media and on the (real) animosity between Israel and the Arab countries. These dangers are taken as a proof that the second Holocaust is coming, that Israel will soon be wiped out of the face of the earth, and only the Messiah from the Oval Room can save his Chosen People.

    1. “Trump is bad for Israel – that’s for sure.”

      Why do you think so?

      And why do you call his popularity in Israel a problem? A problem for whom?

      1. He’s a problem for people who believe in civility and the rule of law, he’s a problem for anti-racists, for secularists, for everyone with the slightest, passing interest in liberal democracy, etc.

        1. I see, and I agree.

          However, I think his support for Israel has been reasonable. I don’t think he has been inordinately supportive of Israel.

          1. I don’t think Trump’s support for Israel has been unreasonable; I think Trump’s support for Natanyahu personally has breached the norm regarding US presidents’ not becoming involved in a foreign nation’s internal politics — as has been Bibi’s personal support for Trump.

  14. Trump just told the press scrum on the south drive of the White House that American Jews who do not support him are “disloyal” — to both Israel and Trump, since he’s done so much for Israel. This is just a variation on the scurrilous “dual loyalty” charge leveled against Jews by anti-Semites in host countries since time immemorial. Indeed, in addressing a group of US Jews earlier this year, Trump even referred to Netanyahu as “your prime minister.”

    Trump has trafficked in other invidious stereotypes regarding Jews as well. He told another Jewish-American audience that they constantly renegotiate deals and are money-obsessed. And during the run-up to the 2016 election, his campaign circulated a picture of the Star of David atop a background of greenbacks and singled out Jewish Democratic donors for special attacks.

    Trump is incapable of thinking deeper than the level of branding, which is one form of stereotyping.

      1. “Dear Waling wall: for my christmas I would like a scalextrik a dirtbike and A new Melania”

    2. This is just a variation on the scurrilous “dual loyalty” charge leveled against Jews by anti-Semites in host countries since time immemorial.

      I was watching a programme on Roman history earlier, and that comment just made me think of the parallel charge laid against the early Christians by the Roman authorities looking for lion food.
      And the charge laid against Catholics by Protestants in the Elizabethan era, particularly on long winter nights. (Blackadder, 2nd edition vol 4 or 5.)
      And I’m sure other examples. Well, I had the same slur thrown at me for having an Irish name in the 1970s. “You can’t be a properly patriotic Briton with a name like that!” “But, I’ve never claimed to be a patriotic Briton.” It’s one of the oldest slurs in the book.
      I’m trying to think of an example in Homer. There is probably one.

      1. The salient example in the US is the Nisei Japanese (natural-born US citizens of Japanese descent) who were interned in prison camps during WW2 for fear they would be loyal to Japan.

          1. Yeah, that’s another salient example, although by 1960 the whisper campaign was emanating largely from the most feverish corners of the Far Right, like the John Birch Society, and from Southern Protestants (whose leaders seemed to be at least somewhat placated by JFK’s hajj to Houston to address the Methodist ministers convention).

            Those types of dual-loyalty allegations had, however, cost Al Smith (the US’s only Catholic presidential nominee before JFK) the 1928 presidential election against Herbert Hoover.

        2. Yep, very salient.
          I’ve got the price of a beer here that says Trump is going to return some “disloyal” North Korean asylum seekers in order to secure approximately nothing from Kim Jong-Un. Some time in the run-up to the next election.
          Anyone care to take the bet?

  15. “Trump thinks he’s king of the Jews!”
    My God, he must think he is the messiah.

    He must have dementia, he does not seem creative enough to be a schizophrenic.

  16. And I thought Bush Jr said some stupid things. He had nothing on this batshit craziness. Can someone offer Trump a nice building site in Northern Greenland and get him to move there permanently. If his children want to go perhaps they can be caged separately.

    1. FFS, make it Alaska. Why the hell should Greenland or Denmark have to put up with him?

      cr

  17. In another press gaggle he called himself “the chosen one” for taking on China. Aside from Falun Gong, God Almighty knows what poisonous, deranged social media he’s wallowing in.

      1. So how many Jews do you think will buy into this? (Virtually none or negative, IMO.) Is this a play for the Jewish vote or the Evangelical vote? Can we come up with a better name than “Evangelical”? Jesus Christ, I’m sick of them.

  18. It is not surprising to find there are sycophants like Wayne Allyn Root. Is it pathetic that Trump is a sucker for them. How daft do you have to be to quote someone like that as if it were a meaningful endorsement?

    1. But this kind of endorsement is in fact meaningful. It shouldn’t be. It should be detrimental. But in the world we currently reside in this kind of endorsement benefits Trump. If nothing more it’s like a pep-rally for a portion of his base and there is no part of his base that will leave him over stuff like this.

  19. I can give credit where it is due. Moving the embassy to Jerusalem and becoming more pro-Israel are good things in my mind. Abandoning the charade that America is a disinterested broker between a country that shares our most important values and an opposition that does not is welcome honesty from a President who has set never to be broken records for the opposite.

    1. Moving the US embassy to Jerusalem should’ve been done as part of an overall strategy of re-initiating the peace process. US policy should be geared to achieving a two-state solution.

      Even with a two-state solution there may never be peace in the Levant in any of our lifetimes. But without a two-state solution, there certainly never will be.

      1. There is already a two state solution in place: Israel/Jordan. I don’t object to carving out an additional state or two for the Palestinians if it will enhance the lives of the people in the region.

        However withholding the embassy move to pressure Israel is all wrong. Israel is not the recalcitrant side. The Palestinians need to negotiate in good faith – that is the side where we should be applying pressure, the embassy move for example.

        I found it heartening that all (most of?) the Democrats running for President either approved or did not oppose the embassy move.

    2. Yes, though I agree with Ken’s point above. I suspect the move was just done to provoke people, or maybe Netanyahu said “We told Obama to move the embassy, but he was scared of the Muslims.”

      In any case, the US should be a lot harsher with the PA and Hamas, and should tell people to shut up when they complain about the US “supporting genocide” etc. US military to Israel is about the same as to Bahrain and Yemen.

    3. Another commenter asked me about this once: surely there are some things that Trump has done that are worthy of credit?

      Bending over backwards I mentioned the tariffs on China, but my main response was that good things done for bad reasons rarely turn out to be worthwhile.

      I think tariffs on China are a good thing because it’s long overdue that we push back against this imperialistic, repressive country before it becomes the world superpower and begins to export its values around the world.

      Trump, OTOH, thinks tariffs on China are a good thing because they make him look tough. He loves China otherwise and thinks dear leader Xi’s brutal regime is tickety-boo. He imposes tariffs…but shares chocolate cake and propaganda photo ops with the country’s leader, and refuses to express any support for Hong Kong.
      If those tariffs had any moral meaning they’d be part of a larger effort to fight back against Chinese anti-democracy. But they’re not. Nothing Trump does has any moral meaning behind it: it’s just the whim of an American psycho.

      This is why praising Trump when he appears to do something worthwhile is a waste of time. Any genuinely positive acts are coincidental, and any positive long-term consequences from those acts will be negated by some completely contradictory policy that he dreams up thirty seconds later. Good things done for bad reasons are generally worthless.

      1. Saul, I with you on most of this. My intention is not to praise Trump, but to avoid stupidly opposing him at every turn – that only makes more noise in the silo. Trump’s record is bad enough to require no embellishment or speculation.

        1. His administration’s treatment of Israel is certainly preferable to Obama and Kerry’s in terms of fairness and realism, I would say, and of course far better than the unconscionable provocations of Omar and Tlaib.

        2. Yes, I agree that to complain about policies of his that we would support if anyone else had done them – that’s daft.
          At the same time I’m reluctant to actually praise him for anything because it invariably comes from a bad place, and will turn out to be bad in the long run as a result.

          Trump has a way of looking at the world that is so at odds with anything politically and morally positive that he is effectively incapable of doing good.

          Before you(understandably) pull me up on that, I admit that there are good things out there, and that he could choose to do those good things: but they would thus be tainted by his awfulness and would cease to be good.

          He would co-opt them to hide some awful thing he’d done, or he’d contradict them later, or he’d use them as justification for something appalling. This is exactly what he’s done in the past with the tiny handful of seemingly decent policies that have appeared during his term – they have ended up being weaponised to paper over some atrocious tweet that’s getting negative press, or they’ve been used to drive a wedge between different social groups, or they’ve been used to lie about a political opponent, etc.

          That’s how he works – he’s the moral equivalent of universal acid. Everything he touches is corroded.

          1. No “pulling up” from me. I don’t think there is much daylight between our views on Trump. Advocating a clear eyed assessment of Trump’s deeds is essential for anyone wanting him gone. Those few on the cusp who might come over to the light will not be persuaded by disingenuous attacks. There is plenty of real stuff available.

      2. Another commenter asked me about this once: surely there are some things that Trump has done that are worthy of credit?

        FWIW the criminal justice reform that Trump/Kushner pushed is worthy of credit.

      3. I’m not at all sure that tariffs on China are a good thing. And they also hit US businesses, and the potential for collateral damage to other countries is huge, not that tRump would give a shit. The laws of unintended consequences apply.

        “I think tariffs on China are a good thing because it’s long overdue that we push back against this imperialistic, repressive country before it becomes the world superpower and begins to export its values around the world.”
        I think that’s a very bad idea. Are you talking about sanctions? They don’t seem to work very well even on North Korea and Iran, how could you impose them on a country which *is* a world superpower already?

        It might be that tariffs could be used to nudge China in the right direction, but that would require careful consideration, strategy and diplomacy. Not something which tRump’s administration is capable of.

        cr

        1. That was rather my point, that if done by someone else with a commitment to liberal democracy and to gradually pushing back against Chinese expansionism they would be(or I would see them as) good. But by virtue of the fact that it’s Trump who’s behind them, sanctions become utterly meaningless, even outright damaging.

          I am getting rather tired of the west treating China with kid gloves, and anything would be a step up from that. But like I said Trump corrodes everything.

    1. Jeez. I can’t believe I didn’t think of that. I almost always think of Life of Brian.

  21. Someone above mentioned George Bush and it reminded me of this from Bush following the inauguration of Trump.

    According to reports, several spectators in attendance overheard former President George W. Bush say, “That was some weird s**t,” after Trump was sworn into office.

    No change; none expected.

    1. Pretty sure “American carnage” would’ve had both the former presidents Bush scratching their heads. To my knowledge there’s never been another inaugural address like it — not FDR’s at the height of the Great Depression, not Lincoln’s on the brink of the Civil War.

      And you ain’t seen nothin’ yet. Trump’s only path to a second term is by tripling down on the fear and anger and resentment of older white voters. I took a little road trip over the weekend, and when I was driving back yesterday, I put the radio on and listened to Rushbo and some other talk-radio characters. It was wall-to-wall hortatory demagoguery about the “Democrat” Party being a bunch of globalist who want to tear America down to set the stage for a one-world government under the control of non-American and non-Western (and, presumptively, non-white) leaders.

      1. I understood the “weird shit” as the fact of the inauguration itself – the fact that this “rodeo clown” – as he was called by Charles Krauthammer – was President of the United States. Bush was a lot smarter than his caricatures suggest.

        1. I feel quite warm towards Dubya now that Trump’s around. I’m so easy to please at the moment that seeing him offer sweets to the Obamas at McCain’s funeral made me change my mind about the Iraq war.

        2. Yeah, the “American carnage” speech was just one strange facet in a whole weird scene, including that the damn thing was happening in the first place, as well as that the Trump inauguration committee somehow spent over $100 million on god-knows-what, much of which had been raised from sketchy foreign sources, and the whole thing functioned as a homecoming week of sorts for Russian oligarchs.

  24. So Trump has proven to be at least as crazy as everyone thought he was, before the election.

    Great.

  25. He’s laughable, but at the same time, he’s like a kid with a loaded gun in his hands. With his comments on the Jews voting Democrats as being disloyal, he might encourage some right-wing nut with too many guns at home in thinking he has a mission in life and to do something about it. Trump is dangerous for everybody.

  26. Trump is just pandering to the lunatic evangelicals who think that Israel will be the place of the end times and second coming. We all can remember that a few decades ago these deplorable idiots were as anti semitic as you can get.

  27. I suspect a massive brain tumor…on top of his genetic and childhood trauma induced mental impairment.

    1. The ending wasn’t too bad though was it? I can’t remember what happened exactly but it wasn’t Seven-level depressing; just ambiguous, like Mulholland Drive or The Thing.

  29. Trump’s delusion of grandeur is now metastasizing by the hour. Just a few hours ago he declared that he’s “the chosen one” to take on China. Why, in the flash of an eye, he’ll proclaim himself King of The World. Heck, why stop at the world?

    1. Yeah, time for the usual suspects to start reinterpreting the Old Testament bible codes and the writings of Nostradamus for clues adumbrating the coming of Donald Trump.

  32. It doesn’t seem like too long ago that commentors on this site who talked about Trump in these terms were jeered at by many for having “Trump Derangement Syndrome.”

  34. Andy Borowitz: To be King of the Jews, Trump would first need to be bar mitzvahed, and he is at least ten years away from being a man.

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