Eric Trump appeared on one of his father’s favorite TV shows this morning, Fox and Friends, and proceeded to use a term that many say white supremacists use as a Jewish slur. Mashable reports:
In between his complaints about straw bans and Maxine Waters, Trump also attacked Bob Woodward’s new book about the administration as “sensational nonsense.”
Then he casually dropped an anti-Semitic comment and not a single one of the Fox and Friends hosts even reacted.
“CNN will have you on there because they love to trash the president,” Trump ranted. “You’ll mean you sell three extra books, you make three extra shekels, I mean at the behest of the American people …”
https://twitter.com/stevesilberman/status/1039923327727333379
While Israeli money is called Shekels, The Times of Israel notes that “on some anti-Semitic corners of the web, it is often used sarcastically to refer to Jewish money or influence.”
Um, wow. The only people who refer to being paid off as wanting “extra shekels” are Israelis speaking Hebrew and anti-Semites speaking English outside Israel. Eric Trump doesn’t speak Hebrew, so you know exactly who he has been reading online. https://t.co/evuub9L1xV
— (((Yair Rosenberg))) (@Yair_Rosenberg) September 12, 2018
Outrageous. If you want to see how the neo-Nazis use the term "shekels" take a quick glance at The Daily Stormer. Eric Trump’s ‘three extra shekels’ attack on Bob Woodward is not some accident any more than Hillary Clinton's image over a Star of David. https://t.co/DyJTcqyX4H
— (((JonathanWeisman))) (@jonathanweisman) September 12, 2018
Eric Trump said this morning that Bob Woodward made "three extra shekels at the behest of the American people" with his book.
Is Eric too stupid to know he's being anti-Semitic?— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) September 12, 2018
While Fox has, in the past, sometimes said it doesn’t condone statements by guests, so far it seems they are mum on this one.
Jesus Christ. Waiting to see if Fox will even bother denouncing this garbage… https://t.co/dyAf76PWe6
— S.E. Cupp (@secupp) September 12, 2018