Welcome to the Jim Acosta Morning Memo on a Tuesday morning after Trump dropped an anti-Semitic slur at a rally and JD Vance followed suit with a racist attack on a heckler.
Hate Rant: Trump blurted out a well-known slur against Jews as he defended Senator Roger Marshall at a rally in Kansas for his history of predatory medical debt collection.
You have to by law go after those people and they made it like oh He was some kind of a Shylock type guy…
This is not the first time Trump has used the slur, but it is the first time since he sparked outrage last summer, and tried to claim he didn’t know the term was a slur.
Donald Trump (at rally podium, July 3, 2025): If you love them or if you love somebody that you’re leaving it to, think of that. 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.
GAGGLE July 4
Reporter (later, outdoors at night): I wanted to ask you about one of the words you used during your speech, “shylocks.” That’s widely viewed as an anti-Semitic phrase. Could you atone for that word to be used that way?
Donald Trump: No, I’ve never heard it that way. To me, a shylock is somebody that’s a money lender at high rates.
Now he knows, and he’s using it anyway. Let’s see how the media handles this one.
Racism Redux Redux: And in true Mini-Me fashion, JD Vance followed suit at a North Caroline rally when a member of his tiny crowd turned out to be a protester who heckled him over the Epstein Files right on stage.
Vance responded by accusing the non-white man of being an unlawful border-crosser.
VANCE: Ladies and gentlemen, I’m going to have to amend something I said earlier. I said that we have had zero illegal border crossings in the United States of America. But one isn’t bad, right?
To coin a phrase, racists of a feather can go flock themselves.
Dopey Dealer: But let’s rewind now to the White House and another bizarre Trump event, this time with Melania Trump to announce a Trump Women’s Health Initiative, an oxy-moron if I’ve ever heard one.
First, Trump went off on a wandering riff about his renovations.
He lied about prices coming down.
This just a day after he joked about charging MAGA fans $5,000 dollars for a Mar-a-Lago hamburger.
AI But Stupid: Nobody, not even a reporter, has yet to tell Trump that artificial doesn’t mean “fake.”
And then he dropped the floater of the event by announcing a women’s health task force chaired by RFK Jr., noting Bobby is quote “A little different.”
Yeah, WE KNOW!
Play Pen: Trump and Melania then signed the order, and Trump literally gave a pen to a literal baby.
That’s great, baby’s first choking hazard.
Turn Her And Smooch: But the big moment of the event was the cringeworthy kiss that went viral when Melania threw a block worthy of Dikembe Mutombo.
DE-NIED! He chokes in the paint!
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