trump's Chanukah celebration

[Gothmog]

Chanukah does not start until December 22 but trump is having his Chanukah celebration tonight. The main speaker is a Dallas preacher who thinks that Jews are going to hell

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[OAITW r.2.0]

1. Trumps base hate Jews.

How does this help him? Probably won't sway American Jews who can relate to Trump's hatred of innocents, caught up in Trump's hatred for brown-skinned people trying to become Americans. I doubt they will be swayed by this silliness.

[brer cat]

2. I've run out of words.

What kind of person does something so totally disrespectful and idiotic?

[smirkymonkey]

3. What the ever-loving fuck?

This is just so insane, I almost can't take it in. What the hell is wrong with him? Why?

[Gothmog]

4. Trump keeps inviting pastor Robert Jeffress to the wrong events

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It was eight years ago this week that Donald Trump was outraged that then-President Barack Obama hosted a Hanukkah celebration at the White House two weeks before the start of the holiday. Nevertheless, Trump hosted a Hanukkah celebration at the White House yesterday, two weeks before the start of the holiday.

But as HuffPost noted, the event itself became notable for entirely different reasons.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at tackling anti-Semitism on college campuses on Wednesday – but one of the speakers at the event has said that Jews are going to hell.
Trump signed the order at a White House Hanukkah reception, with several prominent Jewish Americans in attendance, including New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft and Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz.

But the president also called upon evangelical Christian leader Robert Jeffress to speak, claiming he’s a “tremendous faith leader.”
....A controversy soon followed, and much of the country learned of Jeffress’ record of over-the-top extremism on issues throughout the so-called “culture war,” with the Texan having lashed out at everyone from gays to Mormons to Muslims to Catholics (he’s described Roman Catholicism as a “cult-like pagan religion,” which represents “the genius of Satan.”)
Of particular relevance today, he’s also said “you can’t be saved by being a Jew.” As recently as four years ago, Jeffress even insisted that Christians in the United States are persecuted in ways comparable to Germany’s treatment of Jews before the Holocaust.