President Donald Trump said during a meeting with the Irish prime minister in the Oval Office on Wednesday that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., “has become a Palestinian.”
“Schumer is a Palestinian as far as I’m concerned. You know, he’s become a Palestinian. He used to be Jewish. He’s not Jewish anymore. He’s a Palestinian,” Trump said.
Schumer is the highest-ranking Jewish elected official in American history. Trump made the remark after a reporter asked him about lowering taxes.
“We are planning to lower taxes. Yeah. If the Democrats behave,” Trump said, before condemning outbursts and other disruptive behavior from Democrats during his first address to Congress last week.
Trump particularly took issue with Democrats’ behavior when he recognized the mothers of two women murdered by illegal immigrants, as well as when Trump celebrated a boy with cancer becoming an honorary Secret Service agent.
“The only thing they liked is when they heard about the death taking place with Ukraine, that they were happy about,” Trump said of Democrats.
