President Trump stood on a stage in Iowa and defended the recently passed mega bill that reportedly places vulnerable people in a position where they might be ejected from Medicaid.
Trump, obviously, highlighted how great the tax cuts for the rich would be, and in a typical Freudian slip, he alluded that they would no longer have to rely on “shylocks.” “Shylock” is one of the oldest antisemitic slurs; it literally goes back to Shakespearean-era English. Shylock was a villainous, money-lending Jewish character in William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, defined by greed.
