President Donald Trump has denied knowing the term “shylock” is an antisemitic slur when he used it during a speech Thursday in Iowa.
Trump held a campaign-style speech at the Iowa state fairgrounds and touched on the multiple accomplishments his administration has had six months into his second term. In describing one aspect of his bill that allows family farms to pay reduced taxes, Trump said, “No death tax, no estate tax, no going to the banks and borrowing from, in some cases, a fine banker, and in some cases, shylocks and bad people,” adding, “they destroyed a lot of families, but we did the opposite.”
Trump was asked by a reporter after returning to Washington, “I wanted to ask you about one of the words you used during your speech, shylock, that’s widely used as an antisemitic phrase. Did you intend for your words to be used in that way?”
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