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Trump calls Chuck Schumer Palestinian, says he’s not ‘Jewish any more’
The US president made the remarks in a meeting with Ireland’s Taoiseach
March 13, 2025 09:04
By, Jewish News Syndicate
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The US president made the remarks in a meeting with Ireland’s Taoiseach
March 13, 2025 09:04ByJC Reporter, Jewish News Syndicate
US President Donald Trump took a swipe at Chuck Schumer during a White House meeting, calling the Senate minority leader a “Palestinian” and saying he wasn’t Jewish anymore.
During a meeting with the Irish Taoiseach Michael Martin, Trump spoke about Israel and the freed hostages he met in the White House last week.
"Israel has been under siege, but you can see they had to fight back. October 7 was a terrible thing. People don't like to mention the terrible, terrible day in the life of the world," Trump told reporters. "It's amazing the way people don't mention that, but it was."
The US president said that in his position, "you get to see clips that you'd rather not see, but I see clips, and that was a terrible day for the world."
"We're working hard with Israel. We're working hard to see if we can solve the problem," he said. "I just saw 10 hostages, and they were treated really badly. They were really treated badly. I was shocked."
Trump said that he asked the freed hostages if Palestinians showed them any kindness. "Did they ever like say, 'Don't worry. You'll be OK?' 'We'll give you a little wink, or give you like an extra slice of bread or something?’"
"Everybody said, 'All of these people said zero,’" Trump said. "It was hatred. It was pure hatred."
Trump said that "some very bad things" will happen, "and people are going to blame the Democrats."
"Schumer is a Palestinian as far as I'm concerned," the president said. "He's become a Palestinian. He used to be Jewish. He's not Jewish anymore. He's a Palestinian. "
Trump has called Schumer a Palestinian before, including during a Fighting Antisemitism event at his golf course in New Jersey in August 2024, when he said, “What happened to Schumer? What happened to all these people? Schumer is like a Palestinian.”
In a post on his Truth Social platform on February 6, Trump wrote that "the Palestinians, people like Chuck Schumer, would have already been resettled in far safer and more beautiful communities, with new and modern homes, in the region."
Chuck Schumer, a descendant of Holocaust survivors, is America’s highest ranking Jewish politician and has been a senator representing New York since 1999.
Schumer has been a critic of Israeli government policy, but has described himself as a “shomer” or guardian of Israel in the US.
Micheál Martin, the Irish Taoiseach, has been among the Jewish state's most vocal critics, including asking the principal judicial body of the United Nations to broaden its definition of "genocide" in December to include Israel's war against Hamas.