Trump's remarks were tongue in cheek!

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Harris hates her own country: According to The Man Who Screams, Ruth Marcus misunderstood.

She doesn't have an ear for these things! Over at the Washington Post, Marcus has offered this reaction to one candidate's recent remarks:

Preemptively blaming Jews, Trump crosses a dangerous line

Donald Trump has always had an odd—and, frankly, offensive—way of talking to and about Jews. As much as he seeks to inoculate himself from any suggestion of antisemitism by invoking his Jewish son-in-law, Jewish (by conversion) daughter and Jewish grandchildren, he too often finds himself enjoying the support, and even the company, of outspoken antisemites and then has a hard time disavowing them.

But when it comes to his comments about Jews, Trump has managed to outdo himself—at a campaign event billed as condemning antisemitism in America, no less. “I’m not going to call this as a prediction, but in my opinion, the Jewish people would have a lot to do with a loss if I’m at 40 percent” Jewish support in the polls,” Trump said Thursday, likely overstating his backing among Jewish voters.

This was no one-off. Later that day, attending the annual summit of the conservative Israeli American Council, Trump raised the subject again. “If I don’t win this election … the Jewish people would really have a lot to do with that if that happens, because at 40 percent that means 60 percent of the people are voting for the enemy,” he warned.

This is both of a piece with Trump past and crossing a hazardous new line, at a time when antisemitism in the United States is exploding and the broader American Jewish community feels vulnerable and besieged. In Trump’s previous comments about Jews and the election, he has seethed with resentment that ungrateful Jewish voters have failed to reward Trump for all the wonderful things he claims to have done for them and Israel.

Marcus continues from there.

Quite a few people have been taken aback by the candidate's remarks at the summit of the Israeli American Council. On Saturday night, along came the Fox News Channel's Mark Levin to explain how wrong they've all been.

As you can see by clicking this link, Levin quoted some of Trump's remarks from that widely discussed address. He then gave this explanation:

LEVIN (9/19/24): It was tongue in cheek. It was tongue in cheek. Everybody there knew it.

How did he know that Trump's remarks had been tongue in cheek? Levin didn't exactly explain, but moments earlier, he'd said that some of his family members were present at the event.

"It was a fantastic speech," Levin said. "It was a tempered speech. It was a factual speech. The people left there, the vast majority were Jews, very excited and very happy."

So the gentleman said—and everything is possible! For ourselves, we decided to check the relevant part of the speech in question.

(You can do that too. Click here, then move ahead to the 41-minute mark.)  

We'll admit it! We didn't detect the slightest sign that the candidate's comments were tongue in cheek. But so it goes at times like these, as candidates make their presentations and advocates offer their views.

Back to Levin! Two minutes after the remarks we've quoted, he offered his view of Candidate Harris. He told viewers what people will say in the future if that candidate gets elected:

LEVIN: For hundreds of years, thousands of years, they'll wake up and say, "Oh my God, what did we do? We elected someone president of the United States who's wholly unqualified, who didn't reveal herself, who turns out to be a Marxist Islamist, who failed as vice president. Oh my God, what did we do?"

A bit later, Levin and his guest, Pete Hegseth, further informed Fox viewers about Candidate Harris. The gentlemen offered this:

LEVIN: ...She's power-hungry, as most ideologues are. So if you hate your own people, which is why the border is open—they want to reshape the population, as the New York Times said. If you hate your own people, if you hate your own history, if you hate your own country—well, why wouldn't she sell out to the enemy?

HEGSETH (chuckles): Ask Barack Obama! Ask Joe Biden!

"Trader Pete" continued from there. But we'd call that a thoughtful analysis from two of our most nuanced thinkers!

In our view, sensible people can ask serious questions about Candidates Harris and Walz. At present, some perfectly reasonable questions aren't necessarily getting answered.

That said, it's all anthropology now! It's all about the way we humans are inclined to behave at highly fraught times such as these.

It's all anthropology now! We first told you that some years ago, and it's never seemed more true. We're heading down the stretch of the kind of event which challenges our human wiring and tests our limitations, even among us Blues.

At any rate, Trump's remarks were tongue in cheek. Inside the hall, everyone knew!