Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a>. Critics said it perpetuated an antisemitic trope about Jews having divided loyalties and there being only one right way to be Jewish. <\/p>\nOn Thursday night in his speech in Iowa, Trump used the term while talking about his signature legislation that was passed by Congress earlier in the day. <\/p>\n
\u201cNo death tax, no estate tax, no going to the banks and borrowing some from, in some cases, a fine banker and in some cases shylocks and bad people,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
When a reporter later asked about the word\u2019s antisemitic association and his intent, Trump said; \u201cNo, I\u2019ve never heard it that way. To me, a shylock is somebody that\u2019s a money lender at high rates. I\u2019ve never heard it that way. You view it differently than me. I\u2019ve never heard that.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Anti-Defamation League said Trump\u2019s use of the word \u201cunderscores how lies and conspiracies about Jews remain deeply entrenched in our country. Words from our leaders matter and we expect more from the President of the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 President Donald Trump says he didn\u2019t know the term \u201cshylock\u201d is considered antisemitic when he…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":39996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[12648,372,7837,84,69,57,2055,28966,7776,3462,82,50,80,19500,365,67,132,68,93],"class_list":{"0":"post-39995","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"category-us","9":"tag-antisemitism","10":"tag-benjamin-netanyahu","11":"tag-democracy","12":"tag-district-of-columbia","13":"tag-donald-trump","14":"tag-general-news","15":"tag-government-and-politics","16":"tag-ia-state-wire","17":"tag-iowa","18":"tag-israel-government","19":"tag-joe-biden","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-politics","22":"tag-racism","23":"tag-religion","24":"tag-united-states","25":"tag-unitedstates","26":"tag-us","27":"tag-washington-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114799026142090174","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}