What a moron. Does he know who Shylock is? If Zohran Mamdani had said this he would be branded an antisemite and the clip would run on loop on every network.

Exactly

He should withhold funding from himself.

We’ve always known he was antisemitic. It’s coming out more often and it’s frightening to think what the country will look like if he remains in office much longer.

He can say/do whatever insane, racist, bigoted thing he wants and crickets. Obama wore a tan suit and everyone lost their sh!t. Biden stuttered and everyone lost their sh!t.

Gosh, whatever will Jared and Vanky say?

Bro doesn't know what a dog whistle is. Doesn't care. It's so f'd up. Meanwhile the country is sleepwalking past the graveyard.

That's how his Mob buddies talk, after all

Nope. He's pretending to be tough. What a fake shithead.

I'm not defending it. My point is the same as yours: that he talks like that to sound tough

Outrage from Jonathan Greenblatt when?

Was going to make a quippy response, but to be honest, this is so bleak it’s probably going to take awhile to actually process it all.

Is that not a very offensive and derogatory term?

Im learning so much from racism by just following the american government

I'll be honest, didn't know what that meant. thought it's most likely antisemitic. looked it up. yup.

Same. Knew it would be bad.

it’s very old and when used as an epithet like this has been intrinsically antisemitic for centuries

Wasting no time. 😡

He has the "best words". If he gets called on it, he'll say he invented the word. I'm guessing he meant to say "shyster", and has no idea the reference.

He’s not a human being. He’s gangrene.

A what?? I have to look that one up…

Trump? A Racist? Nahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

It's a damn shame he didn't get heat stroke with today's temps in Des Moines

I can't wait to find out how this actually isn't antisemitic according to the ADL.

@moltisantithots.bsky.social Trump going after the Shys, better tell T

ADL outrage incoming any time now. Any. Time. Now.

This going even faster than I feared.

Is "Big Balls" his speech writer now? Cuz we know Donny never read The Merchant of Venice… Or more likely it was something his bigoted father said when he was younger…

Good thing he supports Israel, otherwise that might be antisemitic.

I am actually shocked. I'm shocked that I'm shocked, but I am.

He's going to make Stormfront the national website.

Why am I thinking his much vaunted antisemitism committee is going to ignore this one?

Poor impulse control. He's going to say the N word soon.

I’ve been saying this, too. With the disinhibition from the dementia, it’s only a matter of time before he says the N word in public. His base and his propagandists absolutely won’t blink when it happens, either. It will be world-class gas lighting and minimizing.

Yeah, we did get a Nazi salute and Joe Rogan was like, "Whatever.".

That's just what I was thinking—whatever it is that is breaking what little brain he had, either Alzheimer's or FTD, is gonna cause that eventually, based on his history.

I expect the K word first, and the ADL will just say he’s “reclaiming” the word from antisemites or some shit

I’m sure he says it daily. Just a matter of time until it’s in public. He’s nowhere near smart enough to not slip up.

His brain is degrading at an accelerating pace

And yet, not nearly fast enough!

And Ivanka and Jared soak up their undeserved wealth.

If you are a prick to us, do we not bleed?

Yes but the important thing is that he didn't refuse to condemn a phrase he never said

Wow. That is VINTAGE racism.

Gosh, that makes me feel old - kids used it a lot in my (British) highschool.

I need to look that up.

He’s a massive bigot.

And for anyone unfamiliar with origins, Shylock is a main character in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice. An antisemitic stereotype on steroids.

Pretty sure NO media outlet will report or question that. Antisemitism only applies to brown people seeking to boot the oligarchs out of power.

And not because he's a student of Shakespeare.

13th century racist stereotype, hands up who needs diversity, equality and inclusion. This bloke is a joke.

Never even heard of the slurs the president is saying now, what a time to be alive

@paleofuture.bsky.social I mean I believe but I can't find a source yet

We need a hard cap of 65-70 years old for any public office.

You actually think there are no racist pieces of shit under 65 who know and would use that word??

No of course not. I’m Gen X. We might be the fucking worst.

But as a public servant myself I know a lot of good people working up through 65-67 so can’t exactly just cancel them out.

Nah. I won't pigeonhole folks according to those dumbass brackets; I know too many fine Gen Xers and younger. Every gen's got its assholes and its angels.

Yep

I'm inclined to think they'd have fresher antisemitism.

What, no one encounters Shakespeare in high school or college now?

If you are using Shakespearean terms to refer to ethnicity- you might be a racist.

Btw, thank you-- until seeing it on your page, I didn't realize 5 Calls was on Bsky.

Indeed! But I can see creeps, young as well as old, adopting a word like "shylock." There's always been a market for subtler dogwhistles of bigotry. I'd think Trump might've picked it up from Pee Wee German-- yes, that nice Jewish boy in the White House, whose own family knows what he is.

AND term limits!!

Yup. Only newly-minted racists like Nick Fuentes should be able to run. Or you know, maybe the American voter base is full of racists, and they'll put a racist in office whenever they can. In my sixty-five years there have always been young racists. That's how you become an old racist.

Do I want that word in quotations in my search history?

Shylock is the name of the main antagonist of Shakespeare's play, The Merchant of Venice. He's a Jewish moneylender who threatens to take a pound of flesh from the protagonist for defaulting on a loan, and the play ends with him being forced to convert to Christianity.

ADL gonna have their fingers in their ears for this one

You are fucking kidding me? No, no I’m sure you aren’t.

I wish I could remember who I saw on here saying we were going to be seeing an increase in old timey slurs.

His declining executive function is weak and can't keep him from saying bad things.

He is such a goddamn Nazi.

But mamdani!!!

Wow. How long before the N word appears in a speech?

Amazing he’s still using 2 syllable words

Makes sense, he morphed into Hitler a long time ago.

It’s my belief Hitler walked-in. Trump was born. like, a year after Hitler died.

oh!

None of the people at this rally would ever have to be concerned about the estate tax.

I hope representatives from Harvard are keeping track of this shit for the inevitable lawsuit about their supposed civil rights violations.

I read that once a person hits moderate to moderately-severe frontotemporal dementia, inhibitions can fly out the window…

Considering how few he had to begin with.

Well they r certainly not hiding it 🤷🏽

Merchant of Menace

I guess I shouldn't be surprised, but... wow.

I was reflecting on the fact that he said this in Iowa. Who here thinks he would say it in, say, New York? Or Florida? 🤔

Meanwhile people are being renditioned to torture sites for saying Israel is over-reacting to the death of 1,200 citizens

Honestly, I've never heard this word before in my life.

Spoils of war?

Indeed. Polite interpretation would be his cultural knowledge imparting said character from Merchant of Venice..

www.politico.com/magazine/sto...

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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More than mimics, I reckon

If one is involved in NYC real estate development then one is intimate with the mob

my first time hearing that term, had to look it up... and gotta say, it's at least good to know I'm still capable of being surprised by him. heinous shit that i'm sure won't even be mentioned by the media

Oh I’m sure the ADL will immediately issue a strong and forceful response to this

It'd be a legitimately fantastic bit if mamdani just repeated this to see what happens

They would have the pitchforks out in a split second. PAB TACO is graded on a curve that goes below the graph. Nothing to see here folks!

a strong response supporting it knowing Greenblatt

Why would Zohran make him say that?

There’s a lot of contextual nuance here I’m sure

Trump just did an awkward phrasing in a moment of enthusiasm, give the guy a break.

I’m honestly interested in how they’ll handle this. With the holiday weekend they might be able to ignore it since I’m guessing it’ll get buried

They'll call unicef and amnesty intl hamas

I don’t know, I remember when Biden said it. Oh wait, never mind.

They'll ignore it with as must gusto and enthusiasm as they have ignored Israel committing a genocide.

Greenblatt goes to Trumps rallies to support him. The ADL is long gone, all its younger employees that actually care were fired or quit in the last few years.

They won’t acknowledge it. And when asked about they will claim it’s a political attack. This is a man that said eggs are down 400%.

Greenblatt about to explain to us all how Shylock is actually a compliment

Why is he in Iowa?

adl "we also appreciate Shakespeare [ lame quote ignoring issue]"

What the mother fuckin WHAT now? I can't believe Mamdani has not yet condemned this language!

Iowans don’t know what Shylock means. Saying “huh?” as they munch on their cobs dipped in butter.

“Could Trump have meant ‘Sherlocks’? As in they’re really smart” NYT Editorial Page

Well at least he didn't say anything really antisemitic like "stop bombing kids"

👍

and conservative Zionists will continue to ride his nuts

From the president - my god

The ADL:

Greenblatt: “it’s ok. He was kidding. We can take a joke.”

I forget trump is a million years old so he can break out the classic slurs

More like a pound of fash, amirite?

Preview of the ADL: Look, yeah he said it. But no one in this day and age expects Republicans to NOT use slurs. It would be unfair to hold them to the same standards as moral human beings.

He's standing in the sun and the heat index in town is 95 degrees. He's gonna say some bonkers shit.

I audibly gasped

I am sure the ADL will call him out like they did Biden when he was VP.

"I believe they were Oriental!" Trump, probably..

I’m feeling “racially charged”!

Ruh roh. He went with a coded phrase that, most assuredly, he never read and...it's a safe bet his📍cult📍 have not cracked open the Cliff Notes version.

Wut

Shakespeare-level antisemitism

The transition to the Fourth Reich is nearly complete.

Shylock: a fictional character in William Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice (c. 1600). A Venetian Jewish moneylender, Shylock is the play's principal villain. His defeat and forced conversion to Christianity form the climax of the story.

I have literally never heard that phrase, and can see him picking it up secondhand. If his friends are throwing this around, and he hears it referencing bankers, he may just think it’s a synonym. My mom would tell me this is why you need to chose your friends carefully.

More like - it’s a term commonly used in his social circles, and in his addle-minded state he’s lost the inhibition that used to keep him from using slurs in public.

IF THE PRESIDENT IF THE UNITED STATES is hanging around the kind of people that use antisemetic terms on the regular that’s a huge problem. If the POTUS can’t discern from context that a term is bad from context. Thats also a huge problem.

Autocorrect killing me, and embarrassed that I used context twice. Proofread your skeets. Don’t be like me.

If the POTUS is the type of person that uses these terms on purpose, well that’s really bad.

You might enjoy feeding your culture… There is a very good movie version of The Merchant of Venice (2004)

Donald Trump as Sir John Foulstuff.

Nah, he said, “My heart goes out to you.” Nothing to see here.

But the real antisemites are the people who don't want palestinian babies dismembered by American-made bombs.

ADL is gonna be like “but he meant that slur in a positive way”

He also repeated Rawanda wars are fought with machetees Racist pig

Since Trump's fraud felony case, banks won't loan him money anymore.

Trump's make-believe presidential library is his new bank.

Uh oh, hope Laura Loomer and Bibi don't find out...

"He was just joking" "He's from a different time, you have to understand..." "It's just locker room talk" Blah blah blah

And he’s supposed to “protect” Jews from antisemitism? Huh.

No one will care cuz Trump said it.

Why is he doing a rally? He's a lame duck. Or maybe....

ADL right now

Surely this will make Bibi upset and Trump will bend the knee and give him a blank check to continue genocide . . . Oh wait

I don't know this word. Brb going to Google. Back. Welp. He's definitely racist.

Yeah, but have you looked at this one NYC Mayor candidate's foreign policy?

The polite definition... "a moneylender who charges extremely high rates of interest." ...is particularly egregious considering the Republican party’s long time laser focus on de-regulating payday lenders.

What, and i cannot stress this enough, the actual fuck

WUT

But I was told he was fighting antisemitism

👍

he watched Merchant of Venice?

With nazis at his rallies

Like Putin is fighting Nazification.

Those shylocks! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I genuinely wonder how the ADL responds to this one. I'm still shocked they found a way to excuse Musk's Nazi salutes

lol get serious

"he's just a fan of shakespeare..."

May everyone Trump's wronged get their pound of flesh

“are you all so ignorant you can’t recognise a literary allusion when our Wharton graduate president makes one”

They won't respond.

The ADL is ok with heil fives so I guess they're ok with this word now. Tthe national director of the Anti-Defamation League issued a mild rebuke of the vice president’s use of the word, saying Biden “should have been more careful.” www.cnn.com/2014/09/17/p...

let me help you here - they don’t

Well, they did (they still suck though). bsky.app/profile/duck...

*if

No no. He was talking about hair. Shy Locks. Hair thats scared.

Lol they will not say a damn thing.

Racists gonna racist.

Trump knows many bankers. His wife, for example, is a sperm banker

The absolute fuck

Uhhhh

Kinda weird the only Shakespeare he knows is the racist part huh

He’s a fucking racist anti semite power hungry narcissistic demagogue, period

I can't believe those nincompoops! So full of poppycock and balderdash. Those darn tootin' fiddlesticks!

Ah yes, the president out and proud with his antisemitism again. Fuck this place.

One step closer to calling Obama the n word and then I can finally go to heaven 🙏

Breaking out ancient antisemitic slurs, surely one of his zoomer Groyper speechwriters tried sneaking that in there.

Wonder when he’s going to confiscate their wealth 🤔

Looks like we finally found the Antisemitism™ they’ve been screeching about and (shocker!) it isn’t Mamdani.

Remember that people calling for an end to genocide are the REAL antisemitism though

he wouldn't know Shakespeare if it slapped him in the face

it's just locker room talk...

OR “shylocker" room talk.

Wow, gurgling down that fascism drain fast.

"No death tax, no estate tax, no going to the banks and borrowing from, in some cases, a fine banker. And in some cases, shylocks and bad people."

What a douche.

So he’s just doing antisemitism

Greenblatt tomorrow: let’s all take a breath, at least he didn’t mention Israel.

I had never heard this word in my life until this moment. I had to google it.

Its an ancient way of saying "Jew"

It's an unpleasant, stereotyped Jewish character in Shakespeare's 'The Merchant of Venice' which became a watchword for loan sharks but with definate anti-semetic overtones. Here in the land of Shakespeare most people wouldn't use it now, and we love to quote him.

I bet it was Stephen Miller's idea to slip that word into Trump's speech

You think he was reading a speech

I doubt he can even read - probably word salad composed from things people around him said

Yeah he goes off the cuff. It was his own word.

Well, he'll probably soon be claiming be invented it. Along with the complete works of Shakespeare..

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERUn...

that's like saying the n-word is an archaic reference to black people

Haha - wasn't condoning Trump there, by any means

Quite the opposite

Looks like he's now saying he didn't know what shylock means. I call BS.

Mamdani did not use the word 'shylocks', but I can already see the editorials from Greenblatt about the 'enthusiastic phrasing' employed by DJT.

jesus fucking christ

Funny that Trump should mention Shylock, because if one recalls: * Shylock never gets any of his money back that he legitimately lent out to Antonio. * He gets all his other possessions stolen from him by Christians. * He is forced to convert to Christianity.

A reminder that this word is still used by white supremacists kkk and Neo Nazis

CNN will have the ADL on to complain that Zohran didn't immediately repudiate this but that also Zohran enabled this but that also Trump deserves a charitable interpretation because Zohran hadn't yet repudiated it therefore it was a meta callback thing you know

Is Zohran the new Biden? Because everything used to be Bidens fault. Or Obama.

“i’ll give ‘em a week…” “i give ‘em eleven minutes”

Now that you mention it, yes.

As a profound bigot, why would he feel anything less than superiority and disdain for Jews?

Thanks to over 70 million racist halfwits that voted for the racist moronic Motherfucker. Fuck all of you that voted for him. May you spend the rest of your lives rotting in hell with Trump.

Perhaps you should also extend your thanks and special wishes for their future to those who were eligible to vote, but didn't?

For someone who has a reduction in vocabulary complexity, that he still would have the cognitive ability to locate and use the term "shylock" is eye-opening.

he probably pulled that one from his ancient dusty archives

My theory is that he uses that term often in private, and that he either cares less or is less capable of self-monitoring what he says publicly.

OMG he said "shylocks"?!?! The wheels are definitely falling off whatever filter he previously used. It's about to get real 1950s racist all up in here. Dementia riddled KKK Grandpa about to get evicted from the nursing home for screaming the N-word at the nurses for the nth time BAD.

he's basically one speech away from wetback and two away from a straight up hard r.

Lies, lies, lies. And I think the only people who paid taxes in inheritances were over a million $ or higher.

If he was written as a comic book villain the script would be rejected as too unbelievably evil.

So Baron Zemo becomes president but his brain is mush and so he starts publicly attacking Gay People and Saying Old Timey Slurs and absolutely destroying colleges and science before firing everyone who works for the government and making his own army loyal to racism... I'm already fried by Marvel

Even Gorilla Grodd was smart…

Bizarro Superman had more self awareness.

Imagine if a previous POTUS used that word! And yet, I bet his supporters who know that word is a slur will try to justify why it's okay if he says it.

You just know that hard R is making 2025 its comeback year.

ADL is too busy making stuff about Mamdani to worry about this antisemitic shit.

but the uppity student protesters

Pretty crazy for the guy ending antisemitism.

Wait did he just say ‘globalize the intafada’?

“Shylocks”?

"And a pound of flesh, sometimes these bankers, they take one pound, two pounds, five pounds of flesh from their customers, good flesh, important flesh, and I said, we're going to be keeping our flesh. We're going to be keeping our flesh. You like your flesh, you can keep it, I guarantee that."

As always, his projection is so very revealing. After confirming that a “shylock” is basically a loan shark, one can only surmise that he’s had some sketchy dealings getting money from some shifty and “bad people.” Completely unsurprising. Grifter, conman, crook.

Shylocks... as in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice ?! This is so awful...

This motherfucker.

holy fuck

"they're destroying families but we're rebuilding them"

Those people in the background sure are moving around alot in-place. Must be uncomfortable AF!

It’s Iowa…. They don’t care.

"Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day. Those are the kind of people I want counting my money. No one else." Trumped!, 1991

And for anyone unfamiliar with Shakespeare, Shylock is a main character in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice. An antisemitic stereotype on steroids.

Can I report him to ICE for anti-semitism?

god dam fucking piece of shit. Every single second of his rancid shit ball life he's never deviated from this path. god bless america.

OH

His dementia is going to make him say the n word in public soon i bet.

When his polling among the GOP slips, you will see it. Like him using the F word. People barely registered it. Probably upsets him. He thought he had a good bit going.

How many bankers has Trump screamed "Shylock!" at over the years, when they called in his Loans ??

Shylocks. Go on about how he’s against Antisemitism. What a piece of shit this man is

Trump always tells on himself. Always. What are the chances he’s deeply in debt to Putin and Middle East interests?

At this point I'm pretty sure he's on Putin's payroll.

Perfect description of yourself, DJT; “ shylock and bad person”!

Can’t wait to hear Bill Ackman’s response.

Jonathan Greenblatt too

"Shylocks" is a disparaging term in Jewish circles. This is shocking. "Shylock is a Jewish moneylender and a central character in William Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice. He is portrayed as both a villain and a victim, grappling with prejudice and societal marginalization."

What the actual fuck?

Fox broadcast this, right? So… what are *they* saying now about his word choices?

Are we surprised that Trump is now showing his anti semitism? First you go after the Hispanics, then the Palestinians and then us. We Jews are safest when all ppl are free- whether in the USA or in Palestine.

These words from a guy who kept a book of Hitler quotes on his nightstand, has antisemites in his administration, and has dinner at his Florida palace with virulent right wing bigots. He’s also president of United States.

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Evergreen

Shylock is a character in Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice (c. 1600). A Venetian Jewish moneylender, Shylock is the play's principal villain.

Am I losing my mind or stroking out? What the actual fuck?!

We know he’s never read the Merchant of Venice.

Nah, I don't think it's you who's stroking out

@shakespeare.lol

This is the shit that KILLS ME when it comes to the Hasidic support for terrible right wing politicians. Sure, you can continue to scam on property taxes and have general impunity within your communities, but look who you’re empowering! You think they won’t come for you when your votes are no longer

Needed? Cmon, wake the hell up!🔝

They're worried about paying taxes on excess wealth when they die. Millions of Americans CAN'T AFFORD TO DIE!

“Shylock?” That’s a . . . choice.

youtu.be/8lMOL7GaPWI

wtf zohran mamdani how could you say this???

Peak Eric Andre energy.

Mamdani has yet to condemn this hmm interesting

Still nothing. Damning.

Deafening, the silence

These people are zombies getting their strings pulled.

You mean the man who has attacked universities for being anti semitic is not really against anti semitism?

Sorry, who is the anti-Semite in this country now?

None of this is in the BBB. 👀

Maybe Trump mega donor Dallas Mavs owner Miriam Adelson should ask for a refund of her $100 million. ‘Shylock’ is an antisemitic slur. He could have said ‘Jews.’ @dallasmavs.bsky.social www.wfaa.com/article/spor... Mavs owner Miriam Adelson donates $100 million to Trump campaign | wfaa.com

Shylock is also OC slang for a loan shark. Tony Soprano was a shy, and described himself as such. Everybody knows Trump has always wanted to be a mobster; that’s where he probably picked up the term.

EVIL & DISGUSTING, BOTH of THEM! ☠️💩 🤬 😱

We are in The Perfect Storm of Authoritarianism bsky.app/profile/rich...

... holy shit

How far we have fallen and the media will just chuckle and move on. Just wtf are we doing here?

And here I was worried that the children weren't reading Shakespeare anymore

Shylocks.........jfc

The real Trump is coming out. The filters are gone.

was it jared?

That's a fucking slur

I am old. I grew up in the 70's and "Shylock" is not a term one would ever, ever use. We knew what it meant. This is really bad.

Just sitting here waiting for Jonathan Greenblatt and Bill Ackman's responses...🤔

Funny how his administration just destroyed the oversight that curbed non-fine bankers. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/u...

Where’s all this energy when someone posts, “To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize."

There's the antisemitism, but also this is mystifying, why will nobody be getting loans from banks anymore

Because not being able to afford food and dying of preventable disease due to a lack of healthcare makes one a bad repayment risk?

Ah, yes. The word "shylock". That word is totally innocuous and has absolutely zero racist connotations. Less than zero, for sure. SAID NO ONE, EVER!

I think younger people may not have much background on that word, even that it is a slur. It may have gone right over their heads…

This. I've even heard Jewish adults, who should know better, use it casually.

Waiting for the ADL to comment 🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗

They already did. Look through the responses.

I'm shocked they would dare criticize the faucet of money

They've done it before. They were on top of Trump like no one's business in his first term.

The problem is that they're too scared and cozy this time around to really stand up to him.

Just letting it all hang out there now, isn't he?

When did he hold it back?

I don’t think he’s dropped this one publicly until now

It's probably new on his slur a day calendar

He doesn’t have slurred speech, his speech is slurs

Imagine if there was a league of people against the defamation of Jewish people in this country who might care about this.

I’m fully convinced that by the end of this term he’s going to drop an n-word, and I don’t think it will even cost him any political points

Not sure if most folks realise how incredibly hurtful, insulting that "Shylock" reference is for Jewish people. With tRump's infirm brain, hard to know if he realises. Then again, compassion and understanding are not tRump's strong suits. Insults are.

Even if this were true, which I doubt, he should still apologize. He didn't. apnews.com/article/trum...

I've never even heard the word before. Would it be permissible to ask what it means?

The villain from Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice. Him being Jewish is a massive point in the play, which ends when he's punished by 'only' losing half his wealth as long as he converts to Christianity.

In crime movies they use it to refer to loan sharks

And that's one of the comedies... 🙄

In Shakespeare's time a comedy was essentially a play with a "happy" ending, not humorous content. It was a happy ending for Antonio (another major character) but not for Shylock.

I want to commend you for the way you ask this question, openly honestly asking for a definition of a term a lot of people do not know or recognize. I think the answers so far have been spot on for you. I taught shakespeare, and did a full segment on this for my kids. Words carry power.

The answers have been very informative, yes. I'm very aware of my own ignorance. I don't make any effort to hide it, and make every effort to remediate it when I can.

Unaware is not ignorance, my friend! I love learning new things all the time. We live, we learn, we grow.

We cannot be expected to be human encyclopedias (showing my age with that reference). You do not show "ignorance". I was only aware of your curiosity. And curiosity is a wonderful thing! 📚

In those days, as an "other," Jews were shown little compassion. Many still feel the sting of anti-Semitism today, and for that reason did what they could to support Martin Luther King Jr. and his push against discrimination. The Torah (our bible) teaches compassion and kindness at its core.

From the play: "I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions; fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a Christian is? "

Shylock in "Merchant of Venice" is portrayed as greedy & vengeful Jewish moneylender, as another person pointed out, one of the few jobs Jews were allowed to perform. The characterization is very old stereotype. Shylock is not a Jewish name, but a 16th century English name.

Most people who analyze Shakespeare's play see the fictional Shylock as a villain. When the play was written in ~1600, Jews were unwelcome in most countries, forced to live apart from the Christian community. Unable to own land, forbidden from craft guilds (e.g. building), not able to work in govt.

It’s a Jewish character from Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice.”He was a moneylender,one of the few careers available for Jews then.He proposed a severe punishment(“a pound of flesh”)as revenge for being mistreated by Antonio.The play is complex,but the word now is used as a slur by antisemites.

He must have learned that from Miller the Ghoul.

...guess this EO doesn't apply to "rallies"... www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...

Here come the op eds on why being an anti-Semite like the President is vastly more preferable than acknowledging human rights abuses.

"Shylocks"?? Has my man been dipping into the Shakespeare lately?

0% likely

"The Big World Book Of Racial Slurs" Extra Large Print Edition

Soon to be bundled with the Trump Bible and sold for $499

Shylock, eh? “When Nazis and other Jew haters show their stripes”

I'll wager there are a few banks who regret lending to Trump. 🤪😬 And isn't "shylock" viewed as an antisemitic slur? 🤔

Yes. It's a Shakespeare reference but even here in his country we (well, most of us) wouldn't use it outside of that context.

What is he even trying to say? That people only need to borrow from banks because of death tax?

Fred Trump paid some $50M in estate taxes. His idiot son burned through the money and had to try to borrow more, sometimes from bankers who knew better than to loan money to a con man.

Not a day goes by that tRump doesn’t prove how unfit he is to be the US president.

Gramps is drooling again. Put him in a home.

“a fine banker” 😂😆😂🤣😂😆

mfer said shylock

@shakespeare.lol Care to comment?

Old timey!

"Death tax." What an imbicile. "And in some cases ..." Double imbicile. "shylocks" Triple asshole. 🧢

"Death Tax" Is to protect generational wealth. The morons behind him thinks they will leave behind anything but debt!

Imagine if Biden said this. 🤦🏾‍♀️

I’m sure the ADL will quickly condemn Trump for this obvious antisemitism. Light?

*right Autocorrect is such trash now.

Like when they defended Elon's salute?

When does a "trope"become a "stereotype" become a "truism", and how do we know the difference?

Does he, or any of the bored people behind him, realize that the tax he's talking about would never have affected any of them anyway?

Look at the recent protests over here in the UK about the same thing. "No". Funnily enough the people behind Taco Bellend are behind our MAGA wannabes too, they seem to be using us as a testing ground.

Talk about antisemitic stereotyping!

Sounds kinda familiar "When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best...They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.”

The "farmers first" sign is funny as fuck.

He’s a disgrace—at best 😡

i'm not surprised bsky.app/profile/redl...

He is spouting nonsense. If it were Pres Biden, they would calling for his resignation.

I’m honestly surprised about the use of “shylocks”

Wow! Zero self-awareness. Like Rainman.

"No death tax, no estate tax, no going to the banks and borrowing from, in some cases, a fine banker. And in some cases, shylocks and bad people." HE’S TALKING TO BILLIONAIRES not the poor trash living on food stamps

Fed to him from the Stephen Goebbels Miller School of Impending Atrocities.

My jaw just dropped and my eyebrows went up. I am this emoji. 😲 I don’t understand how he can keep getting more awful.

He’s protecting the Jews from cancer research at the universities

Someone needs to shoot that man in the face

That DOES still mean what I think it means, right?

Whoa! Wtf?

The president of the USA is an anti semite.

and, it would seem, to no concern among the audience. holy hell deleted/edited for correction

tbf, Id bet money 90% of them have no idea wtf the word even means mans going back to the deep racism

Where is the ADL now?

Devil's advocate: maybe he really wanted to say "usurer" but whenever he tries people think he's having a stroke

@lawler4ny.bsky.social we found some actual antisemitism for you to fight against

Famous Nazi pedophile is antisemitic

Ok, so. What is the reaction, from the NYT to Nancy Mace, if Mamdani said "Shylock"?

@schumer.senate.gov this one’s from your friend tRump

Christ almighty! What an antisemitic piece of crap.

More thoughts from Trump’s bedside Hitler Reader.

The FUQ?! Just dropping that term like he reads Shakespeare on the regular!! 😳

It’s an often used mafia term for a loan shark.

Oh, I know and it's racist riots are DEEP, yet he's so casual about it 🤮

Glad to hear deficits no longer matter.

Is that what the "blue collar" voters were concerned about? Estate Taxes??!! 🫤

The Jews should be worried about Trump’s new concentration camps.

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WTAF is he talking about?

It’s anyone’s guess.

Shylock? Holy shit.

Shylock is an anti-semitic term. Is going to self-deport? After Charlotte, we know who he thinks are fine people.

Wow, he's straight throwing out antisemitic shit on national television! When you rig an election to become king, decorum is out the window!

He on drugs.

But if you mention Israel's genocide in Gaza, you're antisemitic.

time.com/3394403/shyl... Vice President Joseph Biden 'Shylock' Gaffe: Shakespeare to Slur | TIME Let’s see what happens

Good catch. Looking for the ADL’s reaction specifically. This intrigued me

Shylock is a common mafia term for a loan shark.

he wants to say it sooooo badly

Lies, lies and lies

President Archie Bunker

And no one will tell him his antisemitism is showing, not even most of the Press.

What year is it?

“We have to give him the benefit of the doubt, I am sure it was just a Roman ethnic slur.” - Jonathan Greenblatt, tomorrow (probably)

Its even worse in context, damn

hi @cnn.com are you going to examine Trump's language or is that reserved for www.cnn.com/2014/09/17/p...

"that some consider" FFS. I'm English, we're immensely proud of Shakespeare and his contribution to our language, but we don't use that one!

I'm sure the ADL will say it is fine, much like Musk's Nazi Salute.

No significance whatsoever to the term “shylock.”

Just wait until Chuck Schumer hears about this. He's gonna write and angry letter. And send it to Mamdami.

Mamdani. Damnit. I should just call him Big Zor.

I guarantee you that NO ONE in that audience will ever come within 5K miles of paying estate tax.

You're seeing exactly the same thing in the UK (unsurprising since the same people behind Trump have been trying to ruin our country as a practice run) over estate duties on farms worth over £3mil getting massively preferential treatment rather than complete exemption.

The crazy thing is that if you have even a tiny amount of money to leave to your children you also have the wherewithal to leave it to them tax free. The loop around inheritance tax is tiny and easy to follow.

The current exemption amount is $14 million per single person or $28 million per married couple - and that's before deductions.

This

But they're so happy for the rich people who won't! That sure owned the libs!

I’m sure Ritchie Torres and John Fetterman are on the case.

fun activity, kids! head over to adl.org/contact, choose "antisemitic or other hate incidents" as the topic of inquiry, and ask if they are going to publicly condemn trump for using an antisemitic slur. *if you're jewish, you might want to click "report an incident" at the top of the page.

Come on, this is the guy super concerned about antisemitism at Harvard.

This is clearly a planned distraction. While media focuses on whether he is antisemitic, Netanyahu is coming to visit the White House on Monday, and Trump will assure him billions in additional armaments as they plan the carving up of Lebanon and formal annexation of the West Bank.

1. Trump absolutely is anti-Semitic. (The 'son-in-law' excuse is no defense. We KNOW he sees Jewish people as "other.") 2. This hate-speech drop by Trump WAS intentional and meant to distract. Whether from Netanyahu's visit, Big Bill enshrinement of Secret Police, or something else, is immaterial.

Of course he's antisemitic -- so was his father. But, he only sees one color and that's green. Ivanka's marriage was simply the union of two organized crime families.

Yes, Donald is always transactional. Even a son-in-law who fails to be Aryan is okay if there is money to be made off the deal (the marriage).

I want THINGS THA THELP ME LIVE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! that MUTHER FUKKER

Imagine the headline if any other politician called bankers “shylocks” in a speech.

But wait. Isn’t the Trump administration claiming in its lawsuit that Harvard has failed to protect Jewish students from antisemitism? Who sues to protect Jewish people from *his* antisemitism?!

This screen shot is how everybody should get their news

They really love Trump.

Imagine what Jake Tapper would've said if Biden made this comment. He'll be silent after Donald actually said it.

Imagine a U.S. president so unfamiliar with literature, history, and basic general knowledge that they'd fail to recognise the antisemitic baggage of the term "shylocks", and use it in a speech to describe bankers ... wait, what? Oh, never mind. 😬

Joe Biden said it once, like 10 years ago. and 1)the ADL COMPLAINED 2)Biden LISTENED 3)he APOLOGISED 4)he DIDN'T DO IT AGAIN. Precisely *none* of those things are going to happen now.

Can we time it when he meets Bibi?

I never knew Shylock was antisemitic; I just thought it was a DJT.

Media on both sides of the Atlantic called Jeremy Corbyn antisemitic for saying bankers should be afraid of him

Jake Tapper would lose his fucking mind if Biden said that. But Trump? Not a fucking word.

Yeah, imagine.

Turns out we don't have to imagine time.com/3394403/shyl...

Why are they so unwilling to call out the racism that flows from the GOP and Trump? Is it really as simple as 'their owners don't want them to'?

yes, it is really that simple.

Paging Jonathan Greenblatt and Morning Joe! No doubt you'll devote much air time to denounce and discuss this offensive smut. Right?

Tbh I think anyone who's pro-Israel gets a pass on antisemitism these days no matter how egregious

There is no connection between the two.

merely and awkward comment really

Trump a raging racist. Mamdani checked a couple of ethnicity boxes. It's pretty obvious who NTY is beholden to.

From the paper that is so very concerned about “antisemitism” at student protests…

I’m scrolling through the New York Times liveblog and they mention a bunch of things Trump said in Iowa. Trans people in sports? Check. Accidentally saying the election was held on November 25th? Also there. But no mention of the fact that he called bankers “shylocks.”

The New York Times covers itself in glory once again. #unreliable

They're not interested in covering Trump for what he is. Tell me how they're not better than Vichy press

Ya. They don’t do that with Trumper. I think they’re literally terrified of him. Like piss their pants terrified of him. It’s wild.

NYT is too busy sourcing eugancists to smear Zohran Mamdani.

The NY Times tacitly condones Trump's antisemitism the way Mike Lawler and Elise Stefanik--two outspoken supposed warriors against antisemitism who give Trump a pass 100% of the time--and all the rest of MAGA do. Jews are not safe with MAGA in office and the Times reporting on it.

"President Trump even made a literary allusion, referencing a character from Shakespeare's the Merchant of Venice." - NY Times, probably. 🙄

Too inconvenient to report all the facts.

Trump references bankers with antisemitic slur in Iowa speech to mark megabill’s passage www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

ADL Slams Donald Trump for Saying 'Shylocks' www.newsweek.com/adl-slams-do...

I didn’t know the term.

Not surprising. It's because he's a fucking dictator and threatening agencies. So they are bending to him. Pretty sure he's threatening lives for votes too.

Interesting. Did he say anything else notable that might make for a more important headline?

Legacy media fawns over this man.

Also: fuck the UFC and Dana White. That prick helped Trump get elected. The wrestling-Trump-industrial complex isn't limited to kayfabe based wrestling

Following in the footsteps of Silvio Berlusconi (only it was football clubs in his case), whom in many ways he very strongly resembles.

what else is the media hiding - what else will it hide

Whatever it takes To keep us all From running to the banks To make full withdrawals

The bigotry is ancient news. But state- sponsored gladatorial combat under the beatific gaze of a monarch? Now *that's* novel.

it's FINE y'all. someone asked about it. trump said "i've never heard it that way....the meaning of shylock is somebody that's a money lender at high rates. you view it differently. i've never heard that." it's all cleared up now...just a matter of opinion.

The ADL says Trump’s use of the term “shylock” is “very troubling and irresponsible.”

I think the larger picture is, this is just a test flag to see how far they'll let him go; (too far.) Look for him to pull out "n*gg*rs" and "sp*cs" before the end of the month.

Damn, the nazi president they support is acting a bit too nazi publicly for their liking.

At some point Israel and that section of the wider Jewish diaspora that supports it uncritically will realise that the far right they have joined with are the real anti-semites. Always have been.

I'm glad they made this statement. But an actual nazi salute was meh for them? They permanently lost all credibility with me after that.

They've give him a very stern look while licking the polish off of his shoes.

“Very troubling and irresponsible” sums him up to a T.

Sen Susan Collins’ level of troubling?

Exactly

Anyone who expects more from trump has been living in a cave for 50 years and/or is about to have to face some harsh realities about their "president."

ADL out here unable to even get up the energy to condemn antisemitic defamation if it comes from a Republican

Surely he has learned his lesson!

Raping teens and adults, filing BK 6 times, trying to overthrow the gov’t, being a traitor to our country, kidnapping innocent people and sending them to camps and prisons, lying as normal course, being a vicious racist, all are “very troubling and irresponsible”. Evidently, it works for him.

i too expect more of that from him

I didn’t even catch that but you’re so right. Perfect ambiguity with that word choice.

Some kids wanting Palestinians to live got a much stronger response.

much more eloquent and to the point rebuke than: “Shylock is among the most quintessential antisemitic stereotypes,” Amy Spitalnick of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs tweeted. “This is not an accident.” ahem... source: the independent

“We expect more” there is gonna be a lot more.

Dignitas, Semper Dignitas

It’s literally Idiocracy

It's worse, at least in Idiocracy that president realised he was too stupid to solve a problem and got behind the guy who could actually fix it.

We can only hope that, like in the movies, this president decides to enter the ring too

Last night, my nephew, a naturalized citizen who is not very politically involved, called me to ask, among other things, why this president exaggerates so much. I told him to imagine what a baby would say if he could speak.

Yeah. Our country is being run by toddlers.

Mamdani: ::demonstrates he is the real deal here for all people of NYC, even Staten Island:: ADL: “He hasn’t specifically denounced the intifada, even though he’s South Asian-American and has never said the word intifada. BAD” Trump: ::does his usual antisemitism:: ADL: “He is a true ally. GOOD”

Hmmm….shylocks. Wonder what that’s code for

Tomorrow in The Free Press: Why Trump's use of an ancient antisemitic trope is actually the left's fault.

*Biden’s fault

**Obama’s fault

***FDR'S fault.

****Mamdani's fault

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I love how the party so worried about antisemitism has this shit emanating from the mouth of their leader.

I swear every time I start thinking like that, they end up doing the very thing I was honestly thinking “ no way they can be bad (evil, stupid, cruel… ) enough to do that.” They have been hard core on the antisemitism stuff and it’s going to come out, they just say this stuff all the time.

They defend him by saying he’s simply referencing Shakespeare showing his high intellect

Busting out the antique antisemitism

Surely I’m a good Jew and not a Shylock, right?

I learn a new 150 year old racist word from this guy once a month. Peak boomer

Yeah, I knew it for a reason:/

Same

You've got to read your Shakespeare.

I really thought it was a weird typo. Never heard it in my life. How this guy’s brain has room for slurs (both old and new) and literally nothing else is beyond me.

I'm so sorry. Condolences.

i can never tell if its a ghost of racists past sneaking in through the dementia fog or if stephen miller has been reading again and teaching him things when it happens. it's always jarring when i learn a new word from trump.

That word goes back to Shakespeare.

Literally. 'Shylock' is a Jewish money-lender from Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice".

I thought the "fine bankers" were going to be the Jews until I googled shylocks lmao

They were - this is his, "and some of them I assume are good people" updated for antisemitism.

“Fine bankers on both sides.”🙄

i can't believe managed to hold in the 'you're attractive for one of them' with the black reporter the other day

What???

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Enmv... sorry for your eyes/ears/sense of shame

Ugh

Guarantee as she said the name of the DRC’s president that Trump had no idea who she was referring to…so he went with “you’re hot, you’ve been doing the Africa thing for a long time, huh?”

He doesn't say "for one of them"...

yes that'd be the part i'm surprised he was able to hold in

Guess we’d better prosecute him for antisemitism, just like Harvard!

Dude glitched and it fell out.

And probably none of them know what he’s talking about.

Pretty sure the only place I’ve heard that is in middle period Scorsese movies

The only time I've heard that term used was by Edward Norton's character in American History X, before he becomes reformed.

Yup, you’re right there too

My mind went to Sopranos

Oh god absolutely and I’m pretty sure I might be conflating mob related media in my mind!

Probably Miller told him that one. No way he saw, let alone read, "The Merchant of Venice." Evidently his last remaining functioning brain cell is the one that holds all the Nazi shit.

Wow. And here I thought he liked Jewish people.

Will the ADL call him out on it like they did with Biden, or nah

They're busy threatening Americans protesting Gaza right now.

I bet it wasn't written by him because I can guarantee he has never read or seen The Merchant of Venice, or indeed any Shakespeare.

Jesus christ

Wow, share a clip or transcript when you have one

Wow. He’s the worst.

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