OlivierK wrote:Meh, it's not votes lost if they didn't vote for him last time

Alan C wrote:When I read about this sort of thing I often wonder how Kushner goes along with it, or Bibi for that matter.

Hermit wrote: Given the context Trump was speaking in, he was not accusing Democrat-voting Jews to be disloyal in regard to the USA. He accused them of being disloyal to their fellow Jews.

Explained Trump's 'Disloyal to Israel' Comments Target His Evangelical Base, Not Jewish Voters

U.S. President Donald Trump’s branding of American Jews who vote for Democrats as “disloyal” to Israel prompted alarms of anti-Semitism. But his ultimate aim appears to be dividing Democrats, peeling off Jewish support and shoring up his white evangelical Christian base.

The comment — which appeared to traffic in anti-Semitic tropes about Jews’ supposed loyalty to Israel — added a sharper edge to Trump’s appeals to another largely Democratic constituency: black voters, whom he challenged to support him in 2016 by asking: “What do you have to lose?”

Trump’s comments are just the latest iteration in a political strategy he has been using since the beginning of the year. In March Trump endorsed the so-called Jexodus movement, which aims to facilitate American Jews leaving the Democratic Party.

“There is no evidence whatsoever that American Jews are going to be more inclined to vote for Donald Trump and the Republican Party because of these attacks,” said Logan Bayroff, a spokesman for the progressive American Jewish group J Street.

Furthermore, Bayroff predicted that Trump would have little success swaying swing voters. “All he’s doing is making himself toxic to American Jews and many other Americans who are more and more horrified by what he’s doing,” he said.

Indeed, even some Trump allies concede that the president’s attempt to paint himself as more pro-Israel than Democrats is more likely to resonate with evangelical voters, who polls show are more supportive of Trump’s brand of pro-Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu-aligned policies than American Jews are.

A Pew Research Center poll conducted in April, for instance, found 42% of Jewish Americans said Trump’s policies favored the Israelis too much, versus just 26% of Christians who expressed that view. Among evangelical Protestants, who have proved to be among Trump’s most steadfast supporters, that number dropped to just 15%

Soy farmers who planted this spring - when the White House was talking up a nearly finished trade deal with China - watched as those trade talks collapsed in May, sending prices well below their costs of production.

Vanessa Kummer’s farm in Colfax, North Dakota, has yet to sell a single soybean from the fall harvest because of the low prices. Normally, the farm would have forward-sold 50% to 75% of the upcoming harvest.

She fears the U.S.-China soy trade is now “permanently damaged” as China shifts its purchases to Brazil, uses less soy in animal feed and consumes less pork as African swine fever kills of millions of the nation’s pigs.

"Our Country has lost, stupidly, Trillions of Dollars with China over many years. They have stolen our Intellectual Property at a rate of Hundreds of Billions of Dollars a year, & they want to continue. I won't let that happen! We don't need China and, frankly, would be far better off without them. The vast amounts of money made and stolen by China from the United States, year after year, for decades, will and must STOP. Our great American companies are hereby ordered to immediately start looking for an alternative to China, including bringing our companies HOME and making your products in the USA. I will be responding to China's Tariffs this afternoon. This is a GREAT opportunity for the United States. Also, I am ordering all carriers, including Fed Ex, Amazon, UPS and the Post Office, to SEARCH FOR & REFUSE all deliveries of Fentanyl from China (or anywhere else!). Fentanyl kills 100,000 Americans a year. President Xi said this would stop - it didn't. Our Economy, because of our gains in the last 2 1/2 years, is MUCH larger than that of China. We will keep it that way!"