Fox News host Brian Kilmeade defended former President Trump’s comments over the weekend in which he said immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country,” remarks that have earned him widespread rebuke.
“He was talking about the border. He was talking about people coming from other countries, coming from prisons. And they wanted to focus on all the Sunday shows, Lawrence, on the word he used, ‘poison,’” Kilmeade said of Trump. “He’s just trying to say we want to keep America, America. We want to build up the border and find out who’s coming in and out. And they tried to say that this language was the problem.”
Kilmeade’s comments on Monday morning were first highlighted by Mediate.
Trump, during a campaign event over the weekend, railed against immigration policies set forth by the Biden administration and claimed millions of people are entering the country illegally and “poisoning the blood of our country.”
And he’s also said that Jews (like myself) should be “grateful” for what he did for Israel.
Assuming he actually did anything meaningful for Israel (which I’m not totally convinced of), there’s a big problem with this. I’m an American Jew - not an Israeli citizen. Doing something good for Israel doesn’t immediately impact me. I guess it gives me a place to flee if the US turns into Nazi Germany, but that’s not a really good selling point - especially when Trump is echoing Nazi talking points.
“Hey, be grateful you have someplace to run to when I open the concentration camps” isn’t a line that makes me want to vote for a guy.
The whole “we did something to benefit Israel so Jews should be grateful” is an anti-semitic trope and it’s insulting when the right uses it. (And it’s sad when people like my parents fall for it.)
Another American Jew here. Fuck him for “helping” Israel. The worse Israel’s crimes are, the more antisemitism you and I face because people think all Jews are Israelis and all Israelis are Jews.
It’s really shitty that he is using your existence as a gross political prop. It is obvious he’s feeding the fire on purpose with the “all Jews = Israelis” propaganda, and jfc it feels surreal and ridiculous to even have to say that out loud. I’m sorry this is happening, I don’t know if it’s of any consolation but there are many who know this is wrong and resist alongside you.
I appreciate it and I know that most people don’t feel that way. Unfortunately, there is a minority that do, and worse, there is a very small minority who would be happy to do me harm. But that’s true about so many groups in America. We’re all “others” even if our families have been here for generations. The American Muslim experience is probably not much different from mine in regard to being treated like a foreigner in your own country.