Trump’s latest example of antisemitic rhetoric was hardly his first

At a Kansas campaign rally, President Donald Trump defended Republican Sen. Roger Marshall against coverage of how the senator pursued patients who could not pay their medical bills while in private practice. Trump said Marshall had been legally required to chase those debtors, a claim MS NOW says is false, and then complained that the press portrayed him as a "Shylock-type guy." NBC News reported that the term is widely recognized as an antisemitic slur.

MS NOW notes that Joe Biden, then vice president, used the same word in 2014 and apologized soon afterward. Trump has used it publicly on multiple occasions and has not apologized.

The outlet places the remark within a long record of Trump comments about Jewish people. Last year he said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer was no longer Jewish because the New York Democrat opposed his foreign policy. In 2024 he called Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro a "highly overrated Jewish Governor" and suggested Jews would share blame if he lost. Earlier episodes include a 2016 address to the Republican Jewish Coalition about money and control of politicians, a 2019 speech to the Israeli American Council, and 2022 remarks faulting Jewish leaders for disloyalty.

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