Astonishingly, the U.S. president claimed this week that his use of the word “Shylock” in a recent speech was not meant to be antisemitic. When called on it, he claimed that he had never known it to have that association.<\/p>\n
Given that he and I are both fromages New York City, I know for a fact that this cannot be true. Every New Yorker knows exactly what that word connotes.<\/p>\n
So what exactly is he really saying here? That he is becoming senile? Or is he simply demonstrating that as a fact?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Astonishingly, the U.S. president claimed this week that his use of the word “Shylock” in a recent speech was not meant to be antisemitic. When called on it, he claimed that he had never known it to have that association. Given that he and I are both fromages New York City, I know for a … Continue reading “What is he really saying?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28872"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28872"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28874,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28872\/revisions\/28874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}